The Center for Social Science Innovation seeks UI faculty to apply for Surveying the Social World. Selected researchers will have the opportunity to submit up to 35 survey questions to a nationally representative sample of 1,000 U.S. adults. As part of the award, CSSI will fully subsidize the survey costs and provide end-to-end survey support. Apply by March 2nd, 2026.

Ethan Kutlu, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and CSSI researcher affiliate, recently published a study tracking how school-aged children categorize speech sounds. His research supports new evidence that speech categorization continues to evolve beyond the first year of life, extending into elementary school years and becoming more refined.

CSSI researcher affiliate Haelim Jeong, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, studies suicide prevention, including suicidal ambivalence—the co-occurring desire to live and to die—among suicide attempt survivors. Jeong was also recently selected to be part of a research collaboration supported by CSSI’s Research Convergence Residency Program to explore loneliness, sleep disruption, and the use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT for mental health support.

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded proposal-development support through the Center for Social Science Innovation’s (CSSI) Grant Writing Residency Program (GWRP), a competitive initiative designed to help advance high-quality, externally funded research in the social sciences.