This $162,123 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will advance research and knowledge on the structure and functioning of networks formed by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and prosecutorial agencies in criminal proceedings under universal jurisdiction. The project will explore how these NGO-prosecutorial networks affect justice, court narratives, and public knowledge about massive human rights...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $200,000 to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research on how organizations have sought to strengthen governance, build trust, and engage stakeholders from the end of World War I to present day. The interdisciplinary research team will examine campaigns to create, reform, transform, or abolish international organizations, as...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research to gather and analyze survey data on citizen perspectives regarding peace, security, and human rights in a post-conflict environment. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Massachusetts will field three public opinion surveys in a post-conflict country using random domain intercept technology to collect anonymous samples. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded Georgetown University a $140,083 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research titled "The Political Wealth of Nations" from June 2021 through May 2024. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social sciences, the NSF program aims to contribute to scientific strength and welfare through understanding resources invested in science. Georgetown University will...
This Project Grant award of $206,574.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on the legal characteristics and governance of international organizations. The principal investigator at the American Bar Foundation will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the charters and legal documents that establish these organizations, identifying key features such as voting rules, budgeting processes, immunities, and...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,474 Project Grant to Code For Science And Society, Inc., a non-profit organization, under the NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The 2-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, supports a research project to examine social movements on university campuses in the U.S. and Canada during 2012-2018. The project will construct a quantitative dataset of higher education social movements and university responses, using...
This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will support research examining discursive strategies of climate justice organizing. The two-year award beginning in September 2021 will fund a study of how grassroots climate organizations communicate with the public about climate change and environmental justice. As part of its mission to strengthen the nation through basic research in social sciences, the NSF...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $243,500 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund collaborative research on heterogeneity, risk premia, and macroeconomic fluctuations from July 2021 through June 2024. The research aims to contribute to understanding how differences across economic agents impact asset prices and aggregate outcomes. As the awardee, Princeton University will oversee the research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,284 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as University of Michigan) to conduct a collaborative research study titled "HNDS-R: Stepping Out of Flatland: Complex Networks, Topological Data Analysis, and the Progress of Science." The 3-year project, beginning September 1, 2023, will use...