$5,000,000
2020 • 3 years • Equitable Recovery
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of scholars, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues. The award supports SSRC's Just Tech Fellowship, which provides funding to a diverse cohort of scholars and practitioners undertaking research and work that seeks to imagine and create more equitable and representative technological futures. The Fellowship has three overarching goals: (1) to improve knowledge by creating purposive and sustainable pathways for critical research; (2) to advance and connect a network of researchers who offer necessary alternatives to the voices and institutions – including those within the technology industry – that already have outsized representation; and, (3) to challenge and reframe assumptions about the relationship between technology and power in society. Substantively, particular focus will be placed on supporting research and work that examines and analyzes technology’s impact on the COVID-19 crisis. The award will also support a dynamic, digital platform to surface, elevate and connect the work and profiles of researchers focused on the social impacts of technology within and beyond the cohort of Just Tech Fellows. It is envisioned that the Just Tech platform will serve as a critical resource for scholars, journalists, policymakers, educators and interested citizens.
$500,000
2020 • 1 year • Equitable Recovery
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It seeks to build a more just and democratic world by supporting individual scholars, enhancing the capacity of institutions, generating new research, and linking researchers with policymakers and citizens. The organization works across seven general themes that inform its programming including: media, technology and politics; peace, conflict and security; economy and social policy; global and regional connections; health and environment; higher education; and, governance, democracy and civil society. The SSRC’s fellowship programs target specific problems, promote individual and institutional change, and expand networks. In addition to fellowship programs, the SSRC builds and sustains research capacity through research networks and committees, workshops and conferences, summer training institutes, scholarly exchanges and publications. The award provides general operating support to the SSRC as it builds out the organization’s Just Tech program and the Public Health, Surveillance and Human Rights Network, which seeks to mobilize thought and action on how to implement mass testing and contact tracing in a way that advances equity in health outcomes and the protection and rights and liberties.
$35,000
2014 • 1 year
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, nonprofit international organization founded in 1923. It nurtures new generations of social scientists, fosters innovative research, and mobilizes knowledge on important public issues. This renewal grant is for the SSRC’s Northeast Asia Security Project to promote negotiated elimination of North Korea’s nuclear, ballistic missile and other weapons programs and to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula.
$1,500,000
2010 • 3 years • Digital Media & Learning
To implement a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in New York City (over three years).
$172,000
2010 • 5 years
To support Track II dialogue with North Korea.
$490,000
2009 • 1 year • Digital Media & Learning
To pilot test a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in New York City.
$814,308
2009 • 2 years • Digital Media & Learning
To establish StartL, a public/private fund for new digital media applications for learning (over two years).
$612,000
2008 • 1 year • Digital Media & Learning
To develop a plan for a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in New York City.
$225,000
2007 • 9 months • Housing
To develop a research framework and associated designs to evaluate the effects of mixed-income public housing and other assisted housing communities on resident opportunities and outcomes.
$250,000
2006 • 1 year • Digital Media & Learning
In support of planning for the Research Partnership for New York City Schools.
$375,000
2006 • 3 years • Policy Research
In support of the Privatization of Risk project (over three years).
$350,000
2006 • 6 years 1 month • Migration
In support of an effort to assess the state of research on migration and development in order to strengthen future research and its links to policy (over 15 months).
$240,000
2005 • 1 year
In support of the Task Force on Hurricane Katrina and Reconstruction on the Gulf Coast.
$250,000
2003 • 4 years 9 months
In support of the project Responding to Hegemony: The Dynamics of Social Movements (over 18 months).
$200,000
2000 • 2 years 1 month
To support the Working Group on Cuba, a joint effort with the American Council of Learned Societies (over two years).
$2,250,000
2000 • 4 years • Policy Research
To enrich the training of selected graduate students in economics (over four years).
$5,700,000
1999 • 5 years 6 months
To support a training and research fellowships program on global security and cooperation (over three years).
$73,580
1999 • 11 months
To support a training and research program on cooperation and global security.
$100,000
1998 • 1 year • Human Rights
To strengthen scholarly relations between Cuba and North America, in collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
$2,170,000
1996 • 5 years • Policy Research
To develop and implement a graduate training and education program in economics (over five years).
$15,000
1996 • 1 year
To support a workshop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to examine the topic of nationalism after colonialism in the Middle East and Central Asia.
$130,000
1996 • 1 year
To develop strategic recommendations for the Convention on Biological Diversity (over two years).
$6,481,551
1995 • 5 years
To support the Fellowship Program in International Peace and Security (over five years).
$25,000
1994 • 1 year • Population & Reproductive Health
To support the conference "Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and the Politicization of Religion in South Asia."
$25,000
1993 • 1 year • Population & Reproductive Health
For a multidisciplinary research initiative on human sexuality.
$275,000
1992 • 1 year
For the collaborative research project International Law and Global Environmental Change: A Systematic Study of International Environmental Accords.
$500,000
1992 • 3 years
To support the Committee on Culture, Health, and Human Development (over three years).
$31,000
1991 • 1 year
To support Environmentalism of the Poor, under the direction of Eric Hershberg, in collaboration with Juan Martinez Alier, Ramachandra Guha, Bina Agarwal, Peter Brimblecombe, Paul Richards, Lori Ann Thrupp, Victor Toledo, and Stefano Varese.
$150,000
1991 • 1 year • Population & Reproductive Health
To support a program on population and environment, in collaboration with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era and the International Social Science Council.
$19,000
1991 • 1 year
To collaborate with Development Alternatives for a New Era and the International Social Science Council to prepare research on the linkages between population and environment for presentation at UNCED.
$7,620,441
1990 • 1 year
To support the Fellowship Program in International Peace and Security (over five years).
$1,884,000
1989 • 1 year 2 months
To support the Fellowship Program in International Peace and Security.
$120,000
1985 • 1 year 1 month
To plan and develop a network of young researchers for the purpose of self-training and scholarly collaboration.
$6,240,000
1984 • 1 year
To support the international pre-/post-doctoral Fellows in International Security program (over five years).