Social Science Research Council

07/07/2025

01/30/2025

We’re excited to announce our 2025 lecture series, "Delivering on Government Innovation," featuring research collaborations between faculty in our university consortium and government agencies that improved the delivery of vital public goods and services.

First up in this year’s series is a virtual lecture on Feb 27 with Harvard University professor Lawrence Katz , who will discuss his pathbreaking work with federal and local housing agencies to improve the efficacy of public housing policy.

Register here: https://www.ssrc.org/events/neighborhood-effects-housing-mobility-and-place-based-policies/

01/14/2025

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.

12/02/2024

The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers applicants an opportunity to advance rigorous field-based research on actionable questions about community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Please share this opportunity with your networks! https://www.ssrc.org/programs/the-inter-american-foundation-research-fellowship-program/

11/08/2024

Anna Harvey reflects on how emerging research on the determinants of innovation in governments and universities can help us design, test, and implement evidence-based strategies that accelerate public innovation.

Read the full essay: https://www.ssrc.org/presidents-desk/2024/08/28/accelerating-public-innovation/

10/23/2024

Together with the Japan Foundation New York, the SSRC is pleased to award new collaborative grants to three Abe Fellowship fellows leading cross-disciplinary, cross-national teams working to better understand important social issues.

Head to our site to learn more about the awardees: https://www.ssrc.org/news/2024/08/29/new-abe-fellows-network-research-grant-awardees/

10/21/2024

The SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs have selected a new cohort of fellows!

Head to our site to learn more about the fellowships and this impressive group of scholars: https://www.ssrc.org/news/2024/09/06/2024-african-peacebuilding-network-apn-and-next-generation-social-sciences-in-africa-fellows/

10/02/2024

Please join us Oct. 10, 2PM Eastern for the 2024 Katznelson Lecture by Esther Duflo of SSRC College and University Fund member Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

https://www.ssrc.org/events/2024-ssrc-katznelson-fellow-lecture/

07/18/2024

Introducing the SSRC's AI Disclosures Project!

Led by noted technology innovator Tim O’Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss, the AI Disclosures Project will focus on developing best practices for firms’ disclosures about their uses of AI models, ensuring that stakeholders have access to consistent, accurate, and transparent information about how AI models are being developed and deployed.

Led by noted technologist Tim O’Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss, the AI Disclosures Project focuses on addressing the potentially dangerous consequences for society’s safety and equity that might arise from …

07/08/2024

In our continuing series of interviews with SSRC-Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellows, Britte van Tiem discusses her research on how prison conditions affect incarcerated individuals both during their incarceration and after release.

Read more on our website: https://www.ssrc.org/criminal-justice-innovation-fellowship/2024/06/11/cji-fellow-britte-van-tiem-on-the-impacts-of-prison-based-programming/

The Social Science Research Council fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues.

07/04/2024

The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers applicants an opportunity to advance rigorous field-based research on actionable questions about community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Please share this opportunity with your networks!

New fellowship program on community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean