In part three of a new series profiling participants in SSRC’s Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Britte van Tiem talks about her research on how prison policies affect the lives of people who are incarcerated.
To build researchers’ communications skills, the Mercury Project recently organized two convenings featuring Ann Searight Christiano, director of the University of Florida’s Center for Public Interest Communications, and Estelle Willie, director of Health Policy and Communications at The Rockefeller Foundation. These sessions imparted valuable lessons on effective research communication.
Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science features new research in the flagship journals of the Social Science Research Council’s founding disciplinary associations. Every month we publish a new selection of articles from the most recent issues of these journals, marking the rapid advance of the frontiers of social and behavioral science.
In part two of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC’s Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Aria Golestani talks about his research on gender and racial bias in the criminal justice system.
The Social Science Research Council has launched Intersections, a new online knowledge platform that curates and synthesizes research evidence on the role of religion in international affairs. Leveraging the infrastructure of the SSRC’s Research Area Mapping Platform (RAMP) initiative, its mission is to act as a resource for researchers, policymakers, media professionals, and the wider public.
As part of a new series profiling participants in SSRC’s Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Romaine Campbell talks about his research on police and prison policies.
May 23rd, 2024 | 2:00 PM Eastern
In this installment of our Research to Solve Problems lecture series, Eva Vivalt (University of Toronto) will discuss her research conducted with policymakers, practitioners, and researchers at World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank workshops. The results illustrate how each of these three groups respond to and weigh evidence when it is presented to them, and which types of evidence policymakers tend to weigh more heavily.
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Data Fluencies Dissertation Grants, in partnership with Simon Fraser University and with support from the Mellon Foundation. The awards will support five Ph.D. students’ research projects on just and equitable uses of information, data, and technology.
Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science features new research in the flagship journals of the Social Science Research Council’s founding disciplinary associations. Every month we publish a new selection of articles from the most recent issues of these journals, marking the rapid advance of the frontiers of social and behavioral science.
Together with the Inter-American Foundation, we are pleased to announce a new fellowship opportunity to advance rigorous field-based research on actionable questions about community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
