100+
Years building new fields of study across disciplines
Connecting researchers across disciplines and geographies to focus their attention and effort on new questions and methods can support emerging fields of study with the potential to illuminate and address new societal challenges.
Recent research reveals the extent to which academic disciplines are organizationally and physically siloed on university campuses, stifling the emergence of new fields of study that cut across existing knowledge boundaries. Siloed disciplines and campuses can hinder researchers from pursuing new directions of study. Strategic intervention, through collaborative events and activities, is needed to build and strengthen research capacity, especially in new and evolving fields.
The Social Science Research Council has extensive experience designing events, research consortia, and online knowledge platforms that bridge silos and build knowledge networks connecting researchers across disciplines and geographies, supporting the emergence of new fields of study. For over 100 years, the Council has had a deep commitment to improving worldwide conditions for emergent knowledge production at an institutional level, through capacity building, resource sharing, and networking.
Featured Programs
- AI Disclosures Project The AI Disclosures Project produces relevant, timely, accessible and actionable research aimed at developing shared AI model disclosure and auditing frameworks.
- Abe Fellows Network The Abe Fellows Network supports former Abe Fellows in the production of emergent, policy-relevant, and collaborative research focused on the US and Japan.
- African Peacebuilding Network The African Peacebuilding Network initiative supports the local innovation of new knowledge with the potential to illuminate and support peacebuilding on and around the African continent.
- Arts Research in Communities The Arts Research in Communities initiative supports embedded ethnographic research with the potential to illuminate new insights about community arts ecosystems.
- Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowships The Inter-American Foundation Research Fellowships support rigorous, field-based, and actionable research on the economic and social impacts of community-led development programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Intersections The Intersections online knowledge platform curates and synthesizes emerging research on the role of religion in international affairs.
- Just Tech The Just Tech program supports diverse cohorts of researchers and practitioners as they build emerging knowledge about technological futures that advance human well-being.
- MediaWell The MediaWell online knowledge platform curates and synthesizes emerging research on innovative technological solutions that advance a public interest internet.
- Re-Engineering Health Decision-Making Environments The Re-Engineering Health Decision-Making Environments initiative convenes leaders of pioneering research labs that are leveraging emerging technologies to re-engineer provider and patient decision-making environments to improve health outcomes.
- Women in Economics and Mathematics Research Consortium The Women in Economics and Mathematics Research Consortium, a partnership with the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), supports new research on interventions designed to cost-effectively grow the talent pipeline in economics and mathematics.
- The Mercury Project The Mercury Project supports emerging research on interventions designed to cost-effectively build vaccination demand around the world, supporting over 100 social and behavioral scientists and practitioners working in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States.