Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
September 17, 2020
Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’
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Webinar: Tools for Coding Qualitative Data
After conducting qualitative interviews, how do you analyze and make sense of the data? Join a free online tutorial to get an […]
Why Social Science? To Help Dismantle White Supremacy
A half-century of increasingly sophisticated research (e.g., on early childhood interventions, residential segregation, and neighborhood effects) and conceptual advances (e.g., critical race theory, intergroup relations, and stereotype threat) have given the country a much deeper understanding of inequality’s causes and consequences.
Confidentiality and Data Access: Webinar Series
The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology and Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics are hosting an eight-session webinar series on confidentiality […]
Diversity Training and the Future
Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They fill out […]
Will We See A More Private, But Less Useful, Census?
Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]
Some Americans Don’t Trust the Census
The 2020 census is fraught with uncertainty for a variety of reasons, including a lack of money, a growing distrust in government and the months of debate over the now-dropped citizenship question – which the Census Bureau itself called a major barrier to participation.
A Shortened Census Count Hurts Communities of Color
The 2020 Census will count fewer Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin than actually live in the U.S. That will mean less public money for essential services in their communities, and less representation by elected officials at the state and federal levels.
New Report: The Social Sciences are Vital for Business
The Campaign for Social Science’s new report, Vital Business: The Essential Role of Social Sciences in the UK Private Sector, argues that social science knowledge and expertise are key to understanding market opportunities and constraints and also helps in understanding current and future consumer behaviors.
