Thursday, August 28, 2025
Center for Social Science Innovation

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.

“Social scientists on campus told us they needed an affordable, simple, and efficient way to access high quality survey data to answer key questions in their work,” says Mark Berg, director of CSSI. “In today’s research landscape, maximizing the impact of infrastructure funding is critical. SurveyHarvest was created at CSSI to do exactly that—deliver meaningful support to the university’s research mission while ensuring resources are used efficiently.”

There are many benefits for submitting questions: 

  • There’s no need to run a full study for just a few questions.
  • The survey is deployed to a nationally representative sample of 1,000 U.S. adults. Demographic information is included with the purchased survey data.
  • CSSI staff do all the administrative tasks like:
    • designing and programing the surveys,
    • coordinating with the survey panel vendor, Verasight, and
    • maintaining human subjects compliance.

Get your questions included in the first survey. Start here. 

 

About CSSI 

CSSI, part of the Office of the Vice President for Research, is committed to advancing, supporting, and celebrating interdisciplinary social science research. CSSI:

  • Serves as a central hub at the University of Iowa where social scientists, including faculty, staff, and PhD students, can find a community of research support and resources.
  • Provides strategic resources to support innovative and high impact social science research, including but not limited to quantitative and qualitative empirical research, theory development, evaluation science, and historical and comparative approaches.
  • Fosters interdisciplinary collaboration enabling scholars to address topics of significant public interest spanning human behavior, health, community, culture, and institutional functioning.

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