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 this semester include facial emotion recognition, workflow in Stata, ArcGIS, multilevel modeling, and Python.

The Center for Social Science Innovation (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.

The Center for Social Science Innovation (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.

The Center for Social Science Innovation recently released a report summarizing findings from a survey of Johnson County residents about constructing a new building for the Johnson County Sheriff's Office and Jail

What attributes make a researcher successful? The Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) asked our researcher affiliates, who hail from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, this question. Continue reading to learn their wisdom for achieving remarkable research success.

Two Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) researcher affiliates, Megan Gilster and Iulian Vamanu, have published a recent study that explores how collaborations between social work students and public libraries can support library staff's professional and personal needs.

Behind the scenes of CSSI's research projects are our field staff, who collect survey data, conduct interviews, and transcribe focus groups. Get to know one of our field staff, Avery Forde, in and outside of her role at CSSI.

CSSI recently concluded its third annual Researcher-in-Residence (RiR) program, which offers faculty a wealth of resources – funding, CSSI staff support, dedicated office workspaces, workshops, and check-in meetings – to support one of their scholarly projects. Continue reading to learn about the 2025 RiR cohort's research and how the program benefited their investigations.