Virtual special issue in European Sociological Review to celebrate ECSR 2025 annual conference
To celebrate the European Consortium for Sociological Research’s 2025 Annual Conference, the European Sociological Review has published a Virtual Special Issue to showcase the intellectual and methodological dynamism and creativity of the community.
Read the full issue at: https://academic.oup.com/esr/pages/demography-and-social-inequality
EPC Pre-conference workshop: New Data and Tools to Study the Demography of Social Mobility (3 June 2026, 10:00–13:00, Bologna)
The workshop will cover a new macro-level comparative database on homeownership-based social mobility, a newly collected cross-national dataset from four countries on housing tenure decision-making, and an introduction to microsimulation for intergenerational mobility.
For further information, see here.
Call for bursaries for Ukrainian applicants at the LEARN project workshop (11-12 June 2026, Cluj-Napoca)
Call for bursaries for Ukrainian applicants at the two-day LEARN workshop “Educational Inequalities Across Europe and Policy-Related Challenges During Acute Social Crises and a Changing Political Environment” at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, June 11–12, 2026. The call offers four bursaries for Ukrainian applicants working on educational inequalities (with a research or policy focus). The selected participants will receive support for transportation to and from Cluj-Napoca and two nights of accommodation.
For more information, see here.
Call for Abstracts: 4th International FReDA User Conference (26–27 November 2026, Cologne)
The conference invites national and international researchers from all disciplines using data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) and/or the German Family Panel (pairfam), the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany”.
Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. Marcel Lubbers (Utrecht University) and Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang (Humboldt University of Berlin)
The FReDA User Conference provides a forum for early-career and experienced researchers to present preliminary results, receive feedback from experienced data users and staff, and foster future collaborations. The conference language is English. The conference will be held in person. There is no conference fee; catering will be provided. Travel costs cannot be reimbursed. The best presentation will receive an award.
Abstracts (max. one DIN-A4 page) should be sent by to freda.conference@gesis.org. Acceptance will be communicated by end of June 2026.
Submission deadline: 21 June 2026
For more information, see here.
FReDA Pre-Conference Workshop at GESIS, Cologne (25 November 2026)
The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) invites to the FReDA Pre-Conference Workshop for PhD students. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, 25 November 2026, one day before the FReDA User Conference on 26/27 November. Participants of the workshop will be invited to attend the conference, as well. The pre-conference workshop offers doctoral and advanced Master’s students a focused forum to discuss their own FReDA-based research projects in an intensive, small-group setting with senior researchers and FReDA experts providing detailed feedback on data-related questions. It also features a session on publication strategies led by Prof. Dr. Karsten Hank. Participation is free of charge.
Application deadline: 30 June 2026
For more information, see here.
Call for proposals: Open questionnaire modules for the GLEN panel survey (2027)
The project team of the German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN) invites researchers to submit proposals for short questionnaire modules or individual items to be included in the GLEN panel survey in the second half of 2027.
GLEN is a large-scale panel study focusing on environmental and climate-related topics, based on a register sample of several thousand online respondents from the German adult population. Proposed modules should have a non-commercial background and require no more than 3 minutes of survey time. As only limited time is available for open modules, shorter submissions have a higher chance of being selected. The review committee may also allocate survey time across multiple proposals.
Decisions will be communicated in October 2026; revised versions of accepted modules are expected by 15 February 2027.
Submission should be sent by email to openmodules@glen-studie.de
Deadline for submission: 15 July 2026
For more information, see here.
Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Science (29 June – 3 July, Southampton)
The National Centre for Research Methods, in collaboration with the Centre for Behavioural Experimental Action and Research, is hosting the third iteration of its introductory summer school on experimental methods. The course does not require any prior knowledge of experimental design or statistics and is open to anyone with basic high school mathematics.
This five-day summer school introduces experimental methods in the social sciences, covering laboratory, field, and survey experiments. Participants will gain a solid foundation in experimental methodology and develop practical skills for designing, implementing, analysing, and presenting experiments. The interdisciplinary team at the Centre for Behavioural Experimental Action and Research (C-BEAR) will lead the course, drawing on examples from Politics, Economics, Business, and Psychology.
Cost: 300£ for students, 650£ for academic/charity/government staff, 950£ others
For detailed information and enrolment.
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2026
Date: 22 July – 14 August 2026
Venue (depending on the course): Online or Onsite at GESIS Cologne, Germany
Course topics: Factorial Survey Design, Advanced Questionnaire Design, Advanced Survey Design, Bots in Web-based Studies, AI-Assisted Surveys, Causal Inference for Survey Researchers, Latent Variable Modeling, Data Science Techniques, Sampling and Weighting in Survey Statistics, Pretesting Survey Questions, Aggregating Evidence Over Multiple Studies, Applied Causal Inference Using DAGs, as well as Intros to Stata and R.
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served)
Program & Registration: www.gesis.org/summerschool
Topical Collection entitled “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing” in European Journal of Ageing
We are pleased to announce the European Journal of Ageing new Topical Collection entitled “Ageing Well for All: Multidimensional Pathways to Sustainable Ageing”, edited by Bruno Arpino and Valeria Bordone.
The collection originates from the activities of the Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and is now open for submissions from both members of the Working Group and external contributors.
We welcome contributions that make explicit how they advance the concept, measurement, and policy relevance of sustainable ageing. Submissions should address one or—preferably—more interconnected dimensions, including: Economic Sustainability, Social and Care Sustainability, Technological Equity and Inclusion, Environmental Sustainability, Political/Institutional Sustainability and Cultural Inclusion. The collection prioritises studies that bridge dimensions (e.g., technology and care systems; housing and health and service delivery; digital skills and civic participation; labour markets and unpaid care) and that articulate mechanisms and policy levers for sustainable ageing. We particularly encourage comparative European research, while remaining open to broader contexts.
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2026
For more information, see here.
GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026
Date: 31 Aug to 29 Sep 2026
Location (depending on the course): Online or Onsite at GESIS Mannheim, Germany
We are excited to announce the program for the GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026! Course topics: Introduction to Computational Social Science with R or Python, Web Data Collection with R or Python, Introduction to Machine Learning for Text Analysis with Python, Computer Vision for Image and Video Data Analysis with Python, Agent-Based Modeling & Simulation, From Embeddings to LLMs: Advanced Text Analysis with Python, Mobile Data Collection and Analysis: Intensive Longitudinal Methods as well as Causal Machine Learning.
Registration deadline: None (first come, first served)
Program & Registration: www.gesis.org/fallseminar
Population journal and its Early-Career Researcher Prize
Founded in 1946, Population is an international, scientific, and peer-reviewed journal published by the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). It is published quarterly in both English and French and is an open-access journal with no article processing charges (APC). Population publishes research articles from various fields of population studies, covering all regions of the world and time periods. The journal also accepts short papers, data papers as well as book reviews and commentaries. They can be submitted in either English or French.
Each year, Population awards a prize to honor the work of an early-career researcher (within a maximum of 7 years post-PhD). The prize includes €1,000 and an invitation to Paris to present the article at INED’s weekly seminar. Submissions for the next Early-Career Researcher Prize are now open.
Submission deadline: 15 October 2026
See details on the journal website
Special Issue Call: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty (Scandinavian Journal of Public Health)
The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (SJPH), in collaboration with the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS), invites submissions for a special issue titled “Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty.” Guest Editors Sarah van de Velde, Malgorzata Mikucka, Nico Vonneilich and Stéphane Cullati seek top-quality manuscripts examining how social, economic, political, and environmental transformations shape mental health and wellbeing. While thematically linked to the 21st Biennial ESHMS Conference (Hamburg, 19-21 August 2026), submissions are welcome from all researchers regardless of conference participation. Manuscripts typically range from 3,000 to 8,000 words and undergo a single-blind peer review process.
Submission deadline: 31 October 2026
For detailed information on the scope and submission guidelines, please visit.