| CSSI News & Opportunities | Greetings CSSI community,
As the fall semester begins, we are pleased to share new opportunities, resources, and research highlights from the Center for Social Science Innovation.
In this issue, we introduce two new initiatives — SurveyHarvest and the Research Convergence Residency Program — alongside continued offerings through our Social Science Methods Series and Writers' Circles. We also highlight the recent accomplishments of our researcher affiliates. We look forward to supporting your work and advancing innovative, interdisciplinary social science research across campus.
Sincerely,
Mark Berg
Director, Center for Social Science Innovation
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology  | | | Upcoming Research Opportunities | | | | CSSI seeks researchers from across disciplines to take part in the first-of-its-kind Research Convergence Residency Program (RCRP) at the University of Iowa. This year’s RCRP cultivates interdisciplinary research on a critical topic for Iowans and the nation: the factors in the social environment that affect individual and population health.
Learn more about RCRP. | | | CSSI seeks questions for the new SurveyHarvest platform, which enables UI faculty, staff, and students to purchase questions ($200 per question) to be added to a nationally fielded survey. Surveys are deployed to nationally representative samples of 1,000 U.S. adults.
Learn more about SurveyHarvest. | | | | The fall 2025 calendar for CSSI's Social Science Methods Series has been announced! The semester will kick off with a workshop on geospatial data analysis from Caglar Koylu, PhD, associate professor in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability. Other workshop topics include facial emotion recognition, workflow in Stata, ArcGIS, multilevel modeling, and Python.
Take a look at our full workshop lineup. | | | CSSI hosts weekly 90-minute writing sessions that provide a structured and distraction-free environment to draft grant proposals (Grant Writers' Circle) or research manuscripts (Write on Target). During the fall semester, writing sessions will be hosted on the following days and times. Enroll today!
- Grant Writers’ Circle | Mondays, 9:00-10:30 AM | 1 slot currently available
- Write on Target | Wednesdays, 9:30-11:00 AM | 3 slots currently available
- Write on Target | Thursday, 2:00-3:30 PM | 1 slot currently available
| | | Recent Research Successes | | | | Two CSSI researcher affiliates, Megan Gilster (School of Social Work) and Iulian Vamanu (School of Library and Information Science) have published a recent study that investigates how collaborations between social work students and public libraries can support library staff’s professional and personal needs.
Read the research spotlight. | | | |
