FReDA Pre-Conference Workshop at GESIS (25 November 2026, Cologne)
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 papers: 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility, and Labor Markets (19-20 November 2026, Vienna)
We are delighted to announce the 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility, and Labor Markets, which will take place in Vienna on November 19–20, 2026. The workshop will feature keynote lectures by Emily Nix and Nathan Wilmers and is organized by Franziska Disslbacher, Isabel Martínez, and Per Engzell.
Deadline for submission: 30 June 2026
For further information, including submission details, please visit.
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.
– Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology: Lecture Series and PhD Course
The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University announces an online lecture series onFoundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology running from September 2 to December 11 2026. The lecture series is open to all interested researchers and students.
The series brings together leading scholars whose work has been central to the development of analytical sociology and continues to shape its contemporary frontiers. Confirmed speakers include Delia Baldassarri, Peter Bearman, Elizabeth Bruch, Damon Centola, Diego Gambetta, Peter Hedström, Michael Macy, Gianluca Manzo, Arnout van de Rijt, Duncan Watts, and Petri Ylikoski. The full programme, Zoom link, and short bios of the lecturers can be found here.
In parallel, IAS will offer the online doctoral course “Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology” (5 ECTS). The course combines participation in the lecture series with assigned readings, discussion-based seminars, and an individual written assignment connected to participants’ doctoral research.
The course (syllabus, registration) may be of particular interest to doctoral students in sociology, social theory, philosophy of social science, network science, computational social science, and related fields.
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
2026 Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research: Geography, Mobility, and Life Course Inequalities (28-30 October 2026, Trento)
The Department of Sociology and Social Research is happy to announce that the 7th edition of the Trento School of Applied Quantitative Research (TN-Square) will take place from October 28th to October 30, 2026 (3 days).
The topic of this edition is Geography, Mobility, and Life Course Inequalities, examining how geographic contexts shape individual trajectories, social mobility, and the intergenerational transmission of advantage.The methodological focus will be devoted to proximity-based models for the identification of neighbourhood effects; the analysis of mobility as weighted directed networks; and causal inference with georeferenced data through conditional instrumental variable strategies.
Speakers include Maria Brandén and Mael Lecoursonnais (Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University), Per Block (University of Zurich) and Kerstin Ostermann (University of Bielefeld / IAB Nuremberg).
The school is addressed to PhD students, post-docs, and early-stage researchers. The official language is English.
Application deadline: 25 August 2026, 12:00 PM (CET).
Details about this year’s TN-Square soon at https://event.unitn.it/tn-square/.
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
Call for Papers: Monte Verità conference on educational inequalities (12-16 July 2027)
With pleasure, we invite interested scholars to submit abstract proposals for our next Monte Verità conference “Educational inequalities: Causes, consequences and policies”, 12-16 July 2027.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2026
Please find the call for papers and more information here.
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.
Invitation to submit comments to Rationality and Society’s forum section
Rationality and Society’s forum section promotes open and critical debates of papers published in its own pages, and of scientific issues of broader interest related to the broader field. The recent issue includes the contribution: “Standards in sociology: A position statement at the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology” authored by Ozan Aksoy, Gianluca Manzo, Gunn E. Birkelund and Werner Raub which outlines a vision on standards in sociology. Interested readers are invited to submit short comments (no longer than 1000 words), engaging with the position statement, further details can be found at https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631261449604.