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
Call for Papers: Experiments in Social Science Research (31 Aug – 1 Sept, 2026, Bern)
We invite submissions for the “Experiments in Social Science Research” conference in Bern (Aug 31 – Sept 1, 2026). We welcome papers using experimental methods across the social sciences, including field, laboratory, survey, or vignette experiments, A/B testing and other randomized designs.
A special panel will focus on the co-production of interventions and RCTs, featuring researchers and practice partners from El Salvador, Switzerland, and the UK, followed by an open discussion.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026
Submit to: rctbern2026.soz@unibe.ch
More information here.
Sequence Analysis Association Pre-EPC Conference meeting 2026: “Life Course Dynamics: Insights from Sequence Analysis” (3 June 2026, Bologna)
The conference meeting will host presentations usign sequence analysis and related method for the study of the life course. The final program is now available here and auditors can register by May 1th by using this form.
Participation is free of charge. The event is supported by the project ERC WIDOW: A Social Demography of Widowhood across Ageing Societies (G.A Project 101117173, Zachary Van Winkle).
Registration deadline: 1 May 2026
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 deadlines: 30 April or 15 October 2026.
See details on the journal website
Call for abstracts: FReDA User Conference 2026 (Cologne, 26–27 November 2026)
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@jascha-draegergesis-org
Acceptance will be communicated by 22 May 2026.
Submission deadline: 10 May 2026
Further details can be found on our website.
FReDA Summer School 2026 at Humboldt-University Berlin (8-9 June 2026)
The German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) at the Federal Institute for Population Studies (BiB) in Wiesbaden invites to the FReDA Summer School 2026 at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-University of Berlin. The workshop aims at researchers who want to work with FReDA data. Participants will receive a practical introduction into working with the panel’s datasets and will have the opportunity to work with the data themselves. The workshop is aimed at quantitively working doctoral candidates, postdocs and advanced students. Participation is free of charge.
Deadline for registration: Admissions will be sent out on a rolling basis until May 15, 2026 – contingent on remaining places.
For more information see here.
Special issue “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice: New Methods for Longstanding Questions” in Historical Social Research.
We are pleased to annonce a new special issue of Historical Social Research titled “Computational Social Inequality Research in Practice: New Methods for Longstanding Questions”, edited by Marie Labussière, Daniel Mayerhoffer, and Rens Wilderom.
Over the past decade, computational social science (CSS) has expanded rapidly, driven by the growing use of digital data and methods such as machine learning, agent-based modeling, network analysis, natural language processing, and generative AI. These approaches offer new opportunities to revisit enduring sociological questions, supporting innovative hypothesis testing, refined measurement, and robustness assessments. Yet their application to research on inequality and stratification remains fragmented and underdeveloped. This Special Issue aims to advance and critically assess the integration of CSS into the study of social inequalities, broadly defined. We invite contributions that apply computational tools while reflecting on their methodological, theoretical, and ethical implications. A hybrid authors’ workshop in Paris (December 2026) will further foster collaboration and exchange among contributors.
Deadline for submission: 15 May 2026.
For more information, see here.
Call for papers: LIVES International Research Days (4-5 November, Lausanne)
The Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES will host two International Research Days at the University of Lausanne on 4-5 November 2026.
We welcome submissions for oral presentations of research papers to the following one-day panels (more details here):
| Wednesday 4 November | Thursday 5 November |
| Within-couple inequalities in contemporary societies Spatial inequalities across the life course and generations Refugee job seekers and their labor market integration in the host country Mid-life challenges & vulnerabilities from a gender perspective | Family complexity, social policies, and social stratification Social stratification and life chances Intersectionality and life course research: Conceptual integration and empirical innovation Social determinants of well-being and health across the life course: Identities, inequalities, and interventions |
We are interested in theoretically-based empirical research from disciplines such as sociology, demography, psychology, economics, political science, epidemiology or statistics. The conference is free of charge.
The deadline for submission: 31 May 2026
More information on how to submit
EPC Pre-conference workshop: Beyond the Chatbox: LLM Coding and Research Agents for Academics (3 June 2026, 13:30–16:30, Bologna)
Featuring applied examples in population research and the broader social sciences, this workshop covers a practical introduction to using large language models (LLMs) as coding agents to improve productivity and reproducibility, address security risks like data leakage, and implement mitigation strategies such as containerization and sandboxing. Attendance if free.
Deadline for registration: 31 May 2026
For further information, see here.
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 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.