A rarely bestowed grant will allow a University of Michigan researcher to complete work she had to put on hold due to a cancer diagnosis. Suzanne Perkins, a Research Center for Group Dynamics affiliate and a lecturer in psychology at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, will use the funding… Continue reading A Rarely Bestowed Grant Returns Suzanne Perkins to Research on Child Trauma and Mistreatment
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David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
“The beauty and the terror of the internet,” social psychologist David Dunning tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, “is that there’s a lot of terrific information, but there’s also a lot of misinformation and sometimes outright fraud. People often don’t have the wherewithal to distinguish.” David Dunning, a professor of psychology at the… Continue reading David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Grant to fund a return to research on child trauma and maltreatment
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected]) ANN ARBOR – A rarely bestowed grant will allow a University of Michigan researcher to complete work she had to put on hold due to a cancer diagnosis. Suzanne Perkins, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and an affiliated faculty member… Continue reading Grant to fund a return to research on child trauma and maltreatment
The Branches and Roots of the Chitwan Valley Family Study
Dirgha Ghimire likes to use a tree as a metaphor for the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS), the comprehensive family panel study launched in 1995 in the Chitwan Valley in Nepal and tracking individuals (wherever they move), households, and communities over decades – one of the most detailed longitudinal studies of its kind in the… Continue reading The Branches and Roots of the Chitwan Valley Family Study
ISR, partners conduct first national study of public libraries’ Black History Month programming
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR)– in partnership with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA)– is embarking on a three-year project that will be the first systematic, national study to assess the content, scope, and factors influencing offerings of Black History Month programming… Continue reading ISR, partners conduct first national study of public libraries’ Black History Month programming
ISR, partners conduct first national study of public libraries’ Black History Month programming
Contact: Tevah Platt, 734-660-4999 Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—Researchers from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have received a $750,000 research grant to conduct a survey of Black History Month programming in public libraries across the country. The research team will partner with the Black Caucus of the American Library… Continue reading ISR, partners conduct first national study of public libraries’ Black History Month programming
Learning science in a hurry
How Americans learned to acquire coronavirus information for personal health decisions and public policy judgments in the COVID-19 pandemic Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, people were plunged into a situation that required them to acquire information about an emerging scientific issue to assess the adequacy of government… Continue reading Learning science in a hurry
Family members caring for COVID patients after ICU discharge face unique challenges
Contact: Laura Bailey, 734-647-1848, [email protected] AN ARBOR––Roughly 21% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at the height of the pandemic required an intensive care stay and the bulk were cared for by family upon discharge. However, not much is known about how these caregivers and patients adapted. To learn more, University of Michigan researchers surveyed COVID-19 ICU… Continue reading Family members caring for COVID patients after ICU discharge face unique challenges
Call for proposals: Pilot grant for the study of rural contexts
The Institute for Social Research is pleased to announce a new pilot project grant program for the Study of Rural Contexts in collaboration with the University of Michigan College of Engineering (CoE). Maintaining the emphasis on interdisciplinary research which distinguishes ISR, we and the CoE invite proposals for new research which focuses on the signature… Continue reading Call for proposals: Pilot grant for the study of rural contexts
Mark Tessler’s new guidebook to kindle social science research in the Arab world
Contact: Tevah Platt [email protected] ANN ARBOR – The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan is the world’s largest academic social science survey and research organization, and the torch it carries, “social science in the public interest,” reflects a determined commitment to educating future generations of social scientists. A new book on the… Continue reading Mark Tessler’s new guidebook to kindle social science research in the Arab world