The Social Science Research Council welcomes the University of Pittsburgh to the ranks of the 49 North American institutions that comprise the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences.
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to welcome the University of Toronto, the first Canadian University to join the ranks of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences.
The SSRC is proud to welcome the University of Washington to the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF). UW joins a network of more than forty CUF higher education partners that are dedicated to connecting across disciplines and institutions to produce high-impact scholarship, and to expanding the funding infrastructure for social and behavioral science worldwide.
The SSRC’s College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF) is pleased to welcome the University of Arizona to its network of over 40 higher education partner institutions.
The SSRC is pleased to welcome two new member institutions to the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Montana.
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is proud to announce that Laura Stilwell of Duke University has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Charles E. Lindblom Memorial Fellowship. Stilwell’s fellowship project will investigate the “Impact of an Unconditional Cash Gift on Low-Income Families’ Housing Ecosystems and Their Mediating Role in Child Development.” The Charles E. Lindblom Fellowship is an annual prize open exclusively to PhD candidates enrolled at one of the SSRC College and University Fund for the Social Sciences’ higher education partners. The 2022 Lindblom Fellowship invited proposals for interdisciplinary social science projects that evaluate interventions to …
The SSRC is proud to welcome Case Western Reserve University to the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF). Case Western Reserve joins a network of forty CUF higher education partners that are dedicated to connecting across disciplines and institutions to produce high-impact scholarship, and to expanding the funding infrastructure for social and behavioral science worldwide. “Societies around the globe face pressing challenges at scale: pandemics, hunger, climate change, growing economic inequality, threats to democratic institutions,” said SSRC president Anna Harvey. “The College and University Fund network is a key mechanism for leveraging the capacity of the international …
The SSRC College and University Fund for the Social Sciences (CUF) is proud to welcome six new institutions to its consortium of higher education partners: Boston University; Carnegie Mellon University; Purdue University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Riverside; and the University of California, Santa Cruz. “CUF is a critical mechanism through which the SSRC is bringing together researchers and research funders, including public and private funders, to set a broad research agenda, build the kinds of networks that can work toward finding solutions to global challenges, and ensure that research funding can be directed toward …
Social Science Reckonings On October 4, 2021, the Social Science Research Council will convene the institutions of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences for a virtual conference centered on the theme of “Social Science Reckonings.” In the past year, the social sciences have been extraordinarily active in furthering understanding of the multiple upheavals we have all experienced – a pandemic, a US electoral crisis, and a racial reckoning sparked by police violence but with deep historical and structural roots. At the same time, the historical and structural roots of racism and exclusion within the social sciences …
The inaugural gathering of the College and University Fund for the Social Sciences brought together representatives from the then thirty-five institutional members of the Fund for a full day to discuss opportunities and challenges for the social sciences on their campuses and more broadly, and to explore the concerns of the SSRC’s recently launched To Secure Knowledge Task Force. Born from the SSRC’s essential obligation to support the infrastructure of social research, the College and University Fund community discussed the current state of social science research, the integrity and accessibility of data and national statistical systems, and the institutional arrangements …
