Project Grant HQ00341810007

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 Project Grant award for $300,704 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to understand how collectives of socially and economically disadvantaged (SED) individuals and entrepreneurs are working together to create more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems and pathways for social mobility. The project will employ qualitative methods including ethnographic observations, focus groups, and interviews to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, under CFDA 47.075 "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences", provides $261,234 in funding for a 3-year research project at Duke University. The project aims to investigate the impact of social movements on firm performance, including production, profits, and stock prices. The research consists of three key components: 1) constructing a novel dataset of firms with contracts to organizations...

This $180,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) will fund the implementation and evaluation of an intergroup communication intervention (the VOICES model) to improve police-community relationships, particularly for marginalized communities disparately impacted by the criminal justice system. The goal is to reduce negative attitudes and perceptions (e.g. prejudice, intergroup...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $165,514 Project Grant (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY Oswego) to conduct research on how for-profit companies in the corrections industry create and reinforce their legitimacy through marketing strategies. Key research objectives include examining how these companies market their goods and services, how their marketing impacts the perceptions and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $403,882 to Rutgers, The State University to develop improved methods for designing and analyzing audit experiments. Audit experiments are commonly used to test for discriminatory behavior but can be confounded by multiple interventions. This award will support research to disentangle causal effects by incorporating potential confounders as additional...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant award of $234,489 supports collaborative research at New York University (NYU) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The primary objectives are to: Conduct a series of experiments to understand how people form subjective causal models based on observed data patterns, and how these models may be influenced by preconceptions triggered by natural contexts. This will provide insights into how economic...

This $792,709 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop and evaluate an integrated theory of illicit decision-making within dynamic supply networks. The primary objective is to understand how individuals' choices to engage in legitimate versus illicit activities can impact the decisions of other actors in a supply network. The research team, comprised of experts in criminology, engineering, and information systems, will use...

Arizona State University will receive $149,982 under a Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to envision the use of digital technologies to transform public procurement processes and advance sustainability outcomes. Specifically, the university will conduct research and planning from October 2022 to September 2023 to identify the emerging sociotechnical landscape of public procurement and assess how existing and emerging technologies can support...

This $1,601,966 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, supports research to identify factors that increase bias among healthcare providers, which can contribute to healthcare disparities for racial and ethnic minority patients. The research will leverage psychological theories to examine how adverse provider conditions, such as workplace demands, personal...