Project Grant 1228554

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $298,500 project grant to the Law & Society Association to support research collaborations and mentoring of sociolegal scholars from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. This funding falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in these fields through monitoring resources invested in science. Under this award, the Law...

This Project Grant award, valued at $349,864 and funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will support research that leverages recently linked criminal justice data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) to study how involvement in the justice system shapes the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. The research aims to answer questions about: 1) changes in the risk of criminal...

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund an early career scientist's ethnographic research on social determinants of knowledge production. Under the sponsorship of researchers at Harvard University and Arizona State University, the grant recipient will conduct comparative multi-site ethnography across regional police departments and nonprofits. Through observations, document analysis, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant provides $138,000 to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the development of labor scheduling standards in the United States. The fellowship recipient will conduct a comparative study of eight jurisdictions that considered fair workweek legislation between 2014 and 2021, including cases where laws were enacted and rejected. Through original interviews with policymakers and...

This $730,834 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program (CFDA 16.566) to conduct a five-year mixed-method evaluation of Pennsylvania's 8th Edition Sentencing Guidelines. The key goals are to: (1) summarize the change process leading to the guidelines' implementation; (2) assess the impacts on sentencing outcomes and racial/ethnic disparities; (3) determine stakeholder perceptions; and (4) disseminate findings to help other...

This $599,868 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program will support research and training to create more inclusive undergraduate research experiences for low socioeconomic students in life sciences. Over a two-year period from September 2022 through August 2024, the awardee Arizona State University will conduct interviews and a nationwide survey to identify factors impacting low-SES student researchers. This research aims to understand...

This $138,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support research examining the "Social Proximity of Mentorship Model" from July 2021 through June 2023. The grantee, located in Jersey City, New Jersey, will explore how the social connections between mentors and mentees impact participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The goal of the underlying SBE Sciences program is to...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 two-year Project Grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the impact of urbanization on income inequality across U.S. cities. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. The fellowship, beginning September 1, 2022 and ending August 31, 2024, will be conducted at Winter Hill, Massachusetts...

This $160,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship award was granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The funding supports an early career scientist to investigate how adults learn about and explain the causes of others' behavior over a 2-year project period from September 2024 to August 2026. The research aims to develop a computational model of action explanation by examining when traits versus situational factors or...

This federal Project Grant award for $230,928, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a research study examining the relationship between organized crime and access to public goods in socioeconomically marginalized urban settings. The principal investigator at Barnard College will use multiple methodologies, including quantitative data collection and analysis as well as qualitative fieldwork, to investigate...