Christian Sandvig of CPS wins the ICA’s 2023 Public Policy Research Award
May 31, 2023
Christian Sandvig of the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research and collaborators won the 2023 Outstanding Public Policy Research Award of the International Communication Association (ICA) at last week’s ICA Conference in Toronto. They were honored for their research on “algorithm auditing,” a technique for detecting…
Christian Sandvig wins Public Policy Research Award
May 31, 2023
Christian Sandvig of the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research and collaborators won the 2023 Outstanding Public Policy Research Award of the International Communication Association (ICA) at last week’s ICA Conference in Toronto. They were honored for their research on “algorithm auditing,” a technique for detecting…
U-M Youth Policy Lab to evaluate state child welfare and safety program
April 26, 2023
Contact: Daniel Rivkin, [email protected] Fernanda Pires, [email protected] ARBOR—In Michigan, 140,000 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect are investigated each year—with many of these youth ending up in foster care, where they can be especially vulnerable to long-term difficulties.In an effort to reduce child maltreatment recidivism and foster care placement,…
Human rights a thing of the past? Google says: No
April 19, 2023
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ARBOR—Recently, scholars have expressed doubt that the language of human rights still animates the global fight for better living conditions.Critics say the “human rights-based approach,” defined by the United Nations as a “conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on…
Stanley Feldman Presents 2023 Miller-Converse Lecture
March 27, 2023
Stanley Feldman, professor of political science at Stony Brook University, gave the 2023 Miller-Converse Lecture, speaking on the increasing correlation between authoritarianism and partisan affiliation in the United States over the last 30 years, as well as the implications of this trend for future elections. Read more from the Michigan Daily.
‘Weathering,’ the Life’s Work of Arline Geronimus
March 24, 2023
Arline Geronimus, who coined the term “weathering” to describe the corrosive effects of systemic oppression on marginalized people’s bodies, has a new book that is the culmination of almost 40 years of research furthering our understanding of how population groups who experience systemic cultural oppression, long-term material hardship, exploitation, stigma…
Insights Speaker Series covers group empathy and opposition to restrictive voting laws
March 23, 2023
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — The Institute for Social Research held the latest edition of its Insights Speaker Series for 2023 on March 9.Nicholas Valentino, a research professor at ISR’s Center for Political Studies, spoke on the growing opposition to oppressive voting laws, specifically outlining how empathy toward marginalized…
Ceren Budak Named 2023-2024 CASBS Fellow
March 13, 2023
Posted March 13, 2023. This week, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University announced its 2023-24 fellows class, 37 scholars and practitioners representing 22 U.S. institutions and nine international institutions and programs. CPS Faculty Associate Ceren Budak, who is an Associate Professor of Information (School of Information) and…
Four projects selected for grants in joint program focused on rural life
February 21, 2023
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR — Rural areas around the globe face distinct challenges and four new projects bring social scientists and engineers together to improve understanding and develop solutions. The projects are part of a joint pilot program between the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR) and…
17 U-M faculty members named 2022 AAAS Fellows
January 31, 2023
Contact: Jared Wadley, 734-834-7719, [email protected] ARBOR—The American Association for the Advancement of Science elected 17 University of Michigan faculty and staff members as 2022 Fellows.AAAS, which is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, announced that 506 scientists, engineers and innovators have been…