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Collaboration Imbues SSRC’s ‘To Secure Knowledge’ Report

By Social Science Space | Published: September 19, 2018

In launching its first-ever task force report on Monday, the 95-year-old Social Science Research Council made clear it gets by with a little help from its friends. Collaboration, said sociologist Alondra Nelson Nelson, the president of the SSRC, is the byword of the report, To Secure Knowledge: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good.

Posted in Announcements, Bookshelf, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Research Ethics | Also tagged To Secure Knowledge | Leave a comment

Jasanoff to Receive SSRC’s Hirschman Award

By Social Science Research Council | Published: September 5, 2018

Sheila Sen Jasanoff, the founder and director of Harvard University's Program on Science, Technology and Society, will receive the Social Science Research Council's highest honor, the Albert O. Hirschman Prize, and deliver the Hirschman lecture -- "Theory, Critique, and Discipline in a Post-Truth Age" -- on November 30

Posted in Announcements, Career, Recognition | Also tagged Albert O. Hirschman, Sheila Sen Jasanoff | Leave a comment

SSRC Offers Social Media and Democracy Research Grants

By Social Science Research Council | Published: August 22, 2018

The Social Science Research Council's Social Data Initiative, which aims to provide the social science research community with secure, reliable access to proprietary social media data, is seeking the first requests for proposals for its Social Media and Democracy Research Grants competition in collaboration with Social Science One.

Posted in Impact | Also tagged Facebook, Opportunities | Leave a comment

SSRC Adds Richeson, Nobles to Board

By Social Science Research Council | Published: July 3, 2018

The Social Science Research Council has added Melissa Nobles and Jennifer Richeson to its board of directors. Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. […]

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Humans Broke the Internet. Understanding Them Better Might Help Fix It

By Timo Hannay | Published: April 20, 2018

This stark contrast between the internet's light and dark sides has become a defining characteristic of the digital age, writes Timo Hannay founder SchoolDash, but is not an inevitable consequence of the mostly innocuous technologies on which it's built. Rather, it is the product of their bewilderingly diverse and eccentric user base – otherwise known as humanity.

Posted in Communication, Innovation, International Debate | Also tagged Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, internet, Timo Hannay | 1 Response

Facebook, SSRC Bravely Reinvigorate Research Collaboration

By Francie Diep | Published: April 20, 2018

We spoke with social-science ethicists about how well Facebook's initiative appears to protect users' privacy. They're skeptical, but still eager to see Facebook data studied.

Posted in Announcements, Communication, International Debate, News | Also tagged Facebook, Gary King | Leave a comment

Prewitt: Good Science Will Always Find Its Use

By Michael Todd | Published: November 6, 2015

In receiving the SAGE-CASBS Award, Ken Prewitt, a champion for scholarly knowledge, suggests there is no applied or basic science, only science in use and science soon to be used.

Posted in Academic Funding, Communication, International Debate, Recognition | Also tagged CASBS | Leave a comment

SSRC Offers 2016 Dissertation Development Fellowships

By Social Science Research Council | Published: August 26, 2015

The Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program is an interdisciplinary training program that helps early-stage doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral research proposals. The program seeks students with an interest in learning how their proposals can be strengthened through exposure to the theories, literatures, methods, and intellectual traditions […]

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SSRC Gets $3 Million to Study Research Methods

By Social Science Space | Published: May 26, 2015

The founder of the academic publisher SAGE has given the Social Science Research Council $3 million from her own pocket to advance and improve research methods in the social sciences. The endowment has been named The SAGE Fund for Research Methods. Kenneth Prewitt, a former Social Science Research Council president and now professor of public […]

Posted in News | Also tagged Donation, SAGE | Leave a comment

Tales from The City, the Behavioral Science Summit

By Michael Todd | Published: November 20, 2014

A transdisciplinary investigation into 'The City' sponsored offered hard truths and rays of hope for the urban future most of us will face.

Posted in Interdisciplinarity | Also tagged CASBS, Urban Issues | Leave a comment

Poverty Action Lab and Its Leaders Honored by SSRC

By Social Science Space | Published: April 22, 2014

Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social Science Research Council, the Albert O. Hirschman Prize for 2014. The prize is awarded periodically for contributions to international interdisciplinary social science research, theory and public communication, according to the SSRC, in the spirit of […]

Posted in Recognition | Also tagged MIT, Poverty | Leave a comment

Tag: SSRC

Collaboration Imbues SSRC’s ‘To Secure Knowledge’ Report

Jasanoff to Receive SSRC’s Hirschman Award

SSRC Offers Social Media and Democracy Research Grants

SSRC Adds Richeson, Nobles to Board

Humans Broke the Internet. Understanding Them Better Might Help Fix It

Facebook, SSRC Bravely Reinvigorate Research Collaboration

Prewitt: Good Science Will Always Find Its Use

SSRC Offers 2016 Dissertation Development Fellowships

SSRC Gets $3 Million to Study Research Methods

Tales from The City, the Behavioral Science Summit

Poverty Action Lab and Its Leaders Honored by SSRC

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