The Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) offers social science faculty and center affiliates a variety of administrative supports, funding opportunities, and professional development opportunities.<\/p>\n
CISS Faculty Pilot Grants<\/a> –\u00a0<\/strong> <\/strong>CISS Summer Mini Grants<\/strong><\/a> – The Center for Innovation in Social Science<\/span> provides small grants to support faculty (tenure-track and full-time lecturers), postdocs and graduate student affiliates’ research in the social sciences. This is a rapid-turnaround process, to help facilitate Summer research productivity. The grants are intended to help foster new research or enhance in-progress projects. Types of eligible funding include (i) undergraduate research assistance (max: $2,000), (ii) research consultancies (max: $1,000), (iii) travel awards (max: $1,500), training support awards (max: $500), and Research Supplies Awards (Maximum: $750). <\/span>For more information and to apply, visit our webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n CISS Book Manuscript Incubator Small Grants<\/a> – <\/strong> <\/p>\n CISS Paid Undergraduate Research Interns<\/strong> <\/a>– CISS offers year-long, paid undergraduate research intern support to social science faculty and CISS affiliates. We welcome\u00a0<\/span>proposals for internships where an undergraduate student(s) will focus on three thematic areas: <\/span>1) social justice and inclusion, 2) inequality, and 3) sustainability. The research project should draw on social science methods and explore questions related to human society and social behavior. Priority will be given to projects that directly involve undergraduates in the analysis and\/or collection of data, where data are construed broadly to encompass qualitative, quantitative, archival, digital, and other forms. Center affiliates and BU faculty from any CAS department are eligible to apply. For more information and to apply, visit our webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The Center also offers research assistant recruitment support<\/a>. We provide faculty, lecturer, postdoc, and graduate student researchers is assistance in identifying undergraduate or graduate research assistant candidates. Through our website,\u00a0<\/span>weekly digest<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>social media accounts<\/a>, and targeted email lists, we can reach a large number of students who may be interested in applying for the research positions you have available. We can assist with producing your job ad and provide information regarding pay rates, BU rules for employing undergraduate and graduate students, and lists of candidate attributes and job responsibilities that may be relevant to your position ad. Here<\/a> you will find resources to identify, fund, and hire graduate and undergraduate students. If you would like your research assistant position promoted by the Center, please email the position description to us at\u00a0<\/span>ciss@bu.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n CISS Event Funding<\/strong><\/a> – CISS can offer modest financial support for BU social science related events each year. We will consider funding requests in the $1-500 range. Awards are limited and first-come, first-served. <\/span>Therefore, we encourage you to reach out as early as possible.<\/span> If you are looking for funding for your event (for program support, visitor travel, to purchase food\/non-alcoholic beverages, etc.), you can submit a request for consideration via our JotForm page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Boston University Internal and External Funding Opportunities<\/strong> – The Center advertises internal and external opportunities via our newsletter and on our website. Visit our updated lists of faculty internal opportunities,<\/a>\u00a0faculty external opportunities<\/a>, post PhD opportunities<\/a>, graduate student opportunities<\/a>, undergraduate opportunities<\/a>. Additionally, if you are not subscribed to our Weekly Digest newsletter, subscribe via our sign up page<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n Grant Review Network<\/strong><\/a> – This pilot program will link aspiring grant proposal writers with experienced funded researchers and members of major grant review panels. Grant seekers will prepare a one-page summary or specific aims section, and will be matched with 2-3 seasoned scholars who will provide feedback and guidance on the aims. Opportunities may be available for more extensive feedback on full proposals, contingent on the availability of expert reviewers. Faculty Affiliates and members of BU Social Science departments are eligible for participation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Working Paper Series<\/a><\/strong> – The Working Paper Series makes available new research by projects and scholars affiliated with CISS. The series is intended to facilitate communication between CISS researchers and other social scientists and publicize the broad scope of CISS research activities. Working Papers are typically pre-publication manuscripts that are disseminated to stimulate comment or to make results quickly available.<\/p>\n Ways To Increase\u00a0Your Research Impact and Visibility<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n Social Science Methods Syllabus Archive<\/strong> The Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) is working to develop a syllabus archive for social science methodology courses offered at Boston University (both the Charles River and Medical campuses).<\/p>\n This archive will allow undergraduate and graduate students to strengthen their methodological training by finding a methodological course to enroll in or to syllabi to use for self-directed learning. This archive will also assist faculty advising students who need specific methodological training or help connecting faculty who are teaching courses on similar or related topics.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n Reserve Center Desk Space (Faculty and Graduate Affiliates Only) <\/span><\/strong>Center affiliates (faculty or graduate students) are able to reserve a desk at the Center, located in the middle of campus, at 704 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor. The desk is located in a shared office and is open to all CISS faculty and graduate affiliates, pending availability. You can book up to two months in advance. Please email the CISS Administrator at ciss@bu.edu<\/a> to book a desk or if you have any questions or concerns.<\/p>\n To become a faculty affiliate, please apply via our form<\/a>. Any graduate student who is a current or former recipient of Center funding,\u00a0 such as a competitive summer grant or a participant in the PhD Summer\u00a0Internships in Social Sciences Program\u00a0is eligible for graduate affiliate status.<\/em><\/p>\n Hosting An Event At The Center<\/strong> The Center has a mid-sized conference room with audio-visual equipment that is centrally located at 704 Commonwealth Avenue, 5th Floor. We have an oval table that seats 8-10 people comfortably and our space can accommodate as many as 30 guests in total. We view this space as a central meeting and event space for the social sciences. If you are interested in hosting a speaker, interdisciplinary research meeting, or other educational event, please complete the application form<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are looking for funding for your event (to pay for food, non-alcoholic beverages, etc), you can apply for competitive funding for up to $150 in event funding at the link at the prompt in your room request.<\/span>. Funding and space are first come, first serve and therefore, we encourage you to reach out as early as possible.<\/p>\n Allocation and Priority<\/u><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Use of space\u00a0<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n Hiring Graduate and Undergraduate Students<\/strong> Administrative Support for Hosting Visiting Researchers and Visiting Students<\/strong> The Center can provide administrative support for a limited number of visiting researchers or students. If you are planning to mentor (and financially support if required) a visiting researcher or student, the Center can work with your department administrator to help with the paperwork processing. We will also be able to offer shared office space to a limited number of individuals.\u00a0 However, we do not have financial resources to support their travel, computing, research funds or other expenses. If you are interested in using Center administrative resources, please email ciss@bu.edu,<\/a> CCing your department administrator, with the subject “CISS Visiting Researcher Support.”<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) offers social science faculty and center affiliates a variety of administrative supports, funding opportunities, and professional development opportunities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11707,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427\/revisions\/16833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CISS Funding Opportunities<\/span><\/h2>
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\nThe Center also offers research assistant recruitment support<\/a>. We provide faculty, lecturer, postdoc, and graduate student researchers is assistance in identifying undergraduate or graduate research assistant candidates. Through our website,\u00a0<\/span>weekly digest<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>social media accounts<\/a>, and targeted email lists, we can reach a large number of students who may be interested in applying for the research positions you have available. We can assist with producing your job ad and provide information regarding pay rates, BU rules for employing undergraduate and graduate students, and lists of candidate attributes and job responsibilities that may be relevant to your position ad. Here<\/a> you will find resources to identify, fund, and hire graduate and undergraduate students. If you would like your research assistant position promoted by the Center, please email the position description to us at\u00a0<\/span>ciss@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n