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.

This article is part of a series that profiles CSSI researcher affiliates. These profiles reveal the person behind the research, spotlighting their personal and academic trajectories and what they love about conducting research. Continue reading to discover how Caglar Koylu uses handcrafted methodologies to study geographical and social phenomena, including movement across the American frontier.

Who is digging – and who is falling into – “rabbit holes” of online radicalization? And, more importantly, how is such radicalization defined, when the process can occur at the tip of anyone’s fingers? Continue reading to learn how a CSSI-sponsored preconference, attracting researchers from all around the globe, dove into these questions and the various dimensions of online radicalization.

This article is part of a series that profiles CSSI researcher affiliates. These profiles reveal the person behind the research, spotlighting their personal and academic trajectories and what they love about conducting research. Continue reading to learn how Sarah Nash documents health disparities – particularly in cancer care – by prioritizing the voices of the communities under study.

CSSI recently concluded its Grant Writing Residency Program (GWRP), which is designed to help researchers successfully navigate the grant writing process through CSSI grant development staff support, funding, and dedicated, quiet offices. Continue reading to discover how the experience helped the 2025 GWRP cohort develop competitive and refined grant proposals.

This article is part of a series that profiles CSSI researcher affiliates. These profiles reveal the person behind the research, spotlighting their personal and academic trajectories and what they love about conducting research. Continue reading to learn how Samantha Zuhlke explores institutional relationships and how the public fits in.

The Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) is pleased to announce the researchers selected for its annual Researcher-in-Residence summer program. This program provides chosen faculty and scientific staff with the time, space, and resources to conduct high-impact social science research.