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Announcing the 2023 cohort of Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellows

The Social Science Research Council is thrilled to announce the awardees of the Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellowship. Congratulations to Amanda Boston, J.V. Decemvirale, Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, siri gurudev hernández, kt shorb, Silvia Rodriguez Vegam, and Jaleesa Renee Wells!  This diverse cohort of researchers will conduct 12-month qualitative-ethnographic studies in collaboration with select organizations participating in The Wallace Foundation’s arts initiative. We look forward to your insights from these novel and exciting partnerships.

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Announcing the 2023 Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellows

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce the selection of the 2023 Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellows. These twelve researchers will each receive between $8,000 and $18,000 in grants to research intersections of religious movements and contemporary questions of democracy and democratic action.

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The Mercury Project welcomes new teams

The Mercury Project is pleased to add two new research teams to the consortium of researchers evaluating cost-effective, scalable interventions to boost demand for vaccines and science-based health decision-making. In Senegal, researchers will evaluate offering Senegalese mothers Covid vaccinations during well-child visits. And in rural Sierra Leone, a research team will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of mobile vaccine delivery teams. More about all of the research projects is available here.

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Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science – July 2023

At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we are proud to honor its founders and to celebrate the achievements of policy-relevant and solutions-oriented social and behavioral science. Every month Frontiers features an article from the most recent issue of each founding association’s flagship journal. Across disciplines, the frontiers of social and behavioral science are rapidly advancing, and with them, our collective capacity to support global well-being. Explore the seven articles featured in the July research roundup here.

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Improving Global Education: Evidence, Cost-Effectiveness, and Political Economy

Solutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that already exist. Throughout the developing world, there are countless examples of technologies that appear to be welfare enhancing but are adopted by the poor at very low rates. Examples span health, finance, and agriculture sectors, and include cleaner cook-stoves, anti-malarial bednets, toilets, fertilizer, weather insurance, and improved seed varieties. To make progress on these problems, we need to understand the sources of behavioral or structural barriers to new technology adoption, in order to devise policies and marketing strategies to address those barriers. This talk will highlight economic analysis and randomized-controlled-trial based field experimental methods applied in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to make progress on these questions.

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Virtual Convening: Policy-Relevant Social and Behavioral Science

In this virtual convening of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences, Arthur Lupia, executive director of the Bold Challenges Initiative at the University of Michigan, and Jeremy Weinstein, faculty director of Stanford Impact Labs, talked about their work to support faculty and graduate students pursuing ambitious applied and socially relevant research, in partnership with public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

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Is Behavior the Solution? Setting a Research Agenda for Climate Change Mitigation

In partnership with The Conversation and Sage Publications, the SSRC’s Agenda Fund hosted an important conversation at The Rockefeller Foundation’s NYC convening center bringing together social and behavioral scientists, policymakers, and climate thought leaders to discuss “Is Behavior the Solution? Setting a Research Agenda for Climate Change Mitigation.”  Discussions focused on R&D aimed at finding programs and policies that shift behavior in the direction of reducing harmful emissions. Recordings of panelists’ remarks can be found here.

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Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science – June 2023

At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we are proud to honor its founders and to celebrate the achievements of policy-relevant and solutions-oriented social and behavioral science. Every month Frontiers features an article from the most recent issue of each founding association’s flagship journal. Across disciplines, the frontiers of social and behavioral science are rapidly advancing, and with them, our collective capacity to support global well-being. Explore the seven articles featured in the June research roundup here.

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Encouraging Technology Adoption in Agrarian Societies

Solutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that already exist. Throughout the developing world, there are countless examples of technologies that appear to be welfare enhancing but are adopted by the poor at very low rates. Examples span health, finance, and agriculture sectors, and include cleaner cook-stoves, anti-malarial bednets, toilets, fertilizer, weather insurance, and improved seed varieties. To make progress on these problems, we need to understand the sources of behavioral or structural barriers to new technology adoption, in order to devise policies and marketing strategies to address those barriers. This talk will highlight economic analysis and randomized-controlled-trial based field experimental methods applied in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to make progress on these questions.

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