March 2022

Welcome to the Social & Behavioral Science Monthly Roundup, brought to you by Social Science Space. Each month we’ll bring you a selection of resources of interest across the social and behavioral science (SBS) community. Have news you'd like considered for future newsletters from your part of the SBS world? Send suggestions to PR@sagepub.co.uk.

Advice & How To's

• In honor of Women’s History Month, Lisa DeFrank-Cole and Sherylle J. Tan discuss how to combat gender bias and support women's access to leadership with a post in the LSE Business Review and Business & Management INK’s new blog series, Business Research into Practice
• The Anti-Racism Lab offers a worldwide hub for research on decolonization and anti-racism from the Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality
• To mark their 25th anniversary, Edge is releasing a series of original lectures from scientists and thinkers who are changing the way we think about science and our place in the world, including a lecture by Daniel Kahneman on Adversarial Collaboration
• Science for Ukraine is collecting information about practical support provided by the global research community to Ukrainian researchers and students. You can visit their website and follow the hashtag #ScienceForUkraine on Twitter.
• The Conversation is offering a weekly newsletter, Ukraine Recap, which is a summary of their analysis written by International Affairs editor Jonathan Este.

Articles of Interest

• “A New Take on Gender and Productivity During COVID-19” from Inside Higher Ed
• “An Invasion Felt in Academe” from Inside Higher Ed
• “As the volume of social sciences journal articles increases, academic book publication is slowing” from Phys.org
• “Federal Fraud Hunters on Their Symbiosis with Social Science” from Social Science Space
• “Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience” from Nature Neuroscience
• “How U.S. higher ed is reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine” from Higher Ed Dive
• “Three big reasons your company needs a social scientist right now” from Mitacs
• “Why Social Science? Because It Can Help Preserve Cultural Heritage Important for Understanding and Social Benefit” by Richard Kurin, Distinguished Scholar & Ambassador at Large, Smithsonian Institution from the Consortium of Social Science Associations
• "What May Await Ukrainian Academics? Expect Exile, Harassment and Censorship" from Social Science Space 

Awards & Funding Opportunities

• Nominations invited for Annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award (March 15 deadline)
• Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council has launched the 2022 Celebrating Impact Prize (March 17 deadline)
• Nominations open for the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics (April 1 deadline)

General News

• The Academy of Social Sciences welcomed 47 leading social scientists to its Fellowship and issued their March 2022 Policy Update
• The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia announced the winners of the 2022 Australia-China Joint Action Program
• The Consortium of Social Science Associations released the 2022 US College & University Rankings by Federal Social and Behavioral Science R&D Funding
• The American National Science Foundation announced a new data infrastructure initiative to accelerate the advancement and impacts of social and behavioral research
• The Global Development Network published the report: Social Science and COVID-19: The Southeast Asia Response
• World Health Organization urged to use social and behavioral science in pandemic response
• Investigators with Britain’s Project X discuss expertise vs. outputs

Job Openings

• The British Academy’s Global Professorships program to provide mid-career to senior scholars active in any discipline within the humanities or social sciences with the opportunity to work in the UK for four years (April 27 deadline)
• The UK’s Campaign for Social Science is seeking three new members to serve on its advisory Board (April 1 deadline)
• The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science is open for applications

Events

• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting (March 15-19, Las Vegas, Nevada)
• Gen Z is the Future – Like it or Not! from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Webinar: March 22, 11:00 AM PST)
• Society for Public Health Education Annual Conference (March 22-25, Virtual)
• American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting (March 23-26, Long Beach, California)
• International Studies Association Annual Convention (March 28-April 2, Nashville, Tennessee)
• Face2Face, UIDP's spring conference (March 29-31, Atlanta, Georgia)
• Can Social Scientists Influence the Public Debate? A Discussion with David Leonhardt by the Russell Sage Foundation (Webinar: April 6, 11:00 AM ET)
• Political Studies Association Annual Conference (April 11-13, University of York, UK)
• Open Science & Societal Impact seminar from the Network for Advancing & Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (April 20, Helsinki, Finland)
• American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (April 21-26, San Diego, California)
• American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting (April 28-30, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• Congress 2022 from Canada’s Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 12-20, Virtual)
• Institutional Structures for Societal Impact of Science workshop from the Network for Advancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (May 24-27, Virtual)
• Democratic Vulnerability and Resilience in the United States from the American Academy of Political and Social Science (recorded webinar)

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