This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) totaling $549,983 supports research that analyzes public health backlash and its impact on state and local officials. The research uses qualitative and quantitative data sources, including 150-200 key informant interviews, social media posts, and protest data, to evaluate a conceptual framework for understanding variation in the experience of crisis and backlash. The project...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) grant award of $121,154 to Northeastern University provides funding for a collaborative research project titled "Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science." The project aims to investigate the causes and mechanisms underlying the decline in public trust in science, with a focus on addressing both fact-level misinformation and broader trust-level threats...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $259,129 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Trustees of Boston College. The grant supports a research project entitled "Collaborative Research: Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science". The project aims to advance theory and knowledge about enhancing the public value of scientific findings and scientific communities, and to offer...
This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $159,575 project grant to Rutgers, The State University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: U.S. INSTITUTIONS AFTER COVID-19: TRUST, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS." The two-year grant project, awarded December 1, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2023, will contribute to basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences under the NSF's Social,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $128,247 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to President and Fellows of Harvard College. The grant will support research on "U.S. Institutions After COVID-19: Trust, Accountability, and Public Perceptions" from December 2021 through November 2023. As the prime awardee, Harvard University will examine how the pandemic has impacted trust and accountability in major U.S. institutions, and shape public...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $348,161 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) will fund a study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to provide empirical evidence on how geopolitical shifts and restrictive measures affect international scientific cooperation, researcher mobility, and resource exchange. Employing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,000 to The Johns Hopkins University for planning activities related to establishing an academic research center focused on developing "socially astute" epidemic management infrastructure. The project aims to blend social and biological sciences with community knowledge to understand and promote epidemic control strategies that affected...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $199,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) on May 1, 2022 to complete the project by April 30, 2025. The grant will fund research exploring the role of adaptive capacity on democratic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the university will conduct case studies in Atlanta, GA, Montreal, Canada, Manchester, UK, and Warsaw,...
This $150,607 National Science Foundation project grant will support a research community development project focused on collaborative research related to knowledge of HIV/AIDS. Led by the University of Washington with a completion date of August 2026, the project aims to bring together social scientific and humanistic scholars within the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies. Key activities over the three-year period will include organizing three annual workshops around...