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ISBER Annual Report, 2017 ISBERISBER InstituteInstitute forfor Social,Social, BehavioralBehavioral && EconomicEconomic ResearchResearch UniversityUniversity ofof CaliforniaCalifornia SantaSanta BarbaraBarbara ANNUALANNUAL REPORTREPORT 2016-20172015-2016 www.isber.ucsb.eduwww.isber.ucsb.edu INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (ISBER) ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017 Table of Contents 1. Director’s Statement 2. Research Development 3. Research Highlights 4. Organizational Chart 5. Graphs and Charts 6. Other Projects: Workshops and Conferences Research Experiences for Graduate Students – Dissertation Projects Public Service and Other Activities 7. Center Reports 8. Research in Progress 9. Space Allocation 10. Publications and Presentations 11. Statistical Summary 12. Principal Investigators 13. Unit Participants 14. ISBER Advisory Committee, Administrative, and Technical Staff ISBER Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research University of California Santa Barbara Director's Statement 2016-2017 www.isber.ucsb.edu Director’s Statement July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017 1. Background and Mission ISBER's heritage dates to the 1970s when UCSB established an ORU for the social sciences. ISBER now provides the intellectual and administrative home for research in the social sciences. ISBER's mission statement is as follows: ISBER's primary mission is to facilitate and enable social science research. This is accomplished by providing: 1) efficient pre-award through post-award grants administration, 2) research development assistance and stimulation through consultations and a small grants program, and 3) high level research services that are most efficiently delivered through an ORU to a broad audience of faculty, researchers, and graduate students. ISBER also fosters and supports topical research communities in the form of several research centers, programs, and outreach activities housed within the unit. The 2016-17 academic year was a period of transitions. Two of the key nodes of decisions making for research in the social sciences -- the Social Science Dean's Office and the Office of Research -- were occupied by interims while searches commenced for a new Dean and new Vice Chancellor of Research. I served on both search committees, was impressed with the strong pool of candidates, and can state that the new appointments -- Joe Incandela and Charles Hale -- will provide excellent leadership for the campus and the social science research community in particular. While those searches were commencing, and as much as I would have enjoyed working with Joe and Charles, I was also faced with my own transition back to the Department of Geography to serve as chair after serving as the director of ISBER for the past five years. My legacy at ISBER includes: 1) working with faculty from economics and OIT to create a secure computing server that subsequently won awards and has become a campus-wide model; 2) closing the Benton Survey Center and replacing those services with a Qualtrics license for L&S (yielding a substantial annual savings for the Dean's office and stimulating a sharp increase in campus-wide survey usage); 3) establishing and executing a protocol for review of ISBER Centers (leading to the closure of some and invigoration of others); 4) creating a centralized ISBER staff person responsible for Center activities to replace fractional staff positions within centers (which provides greater stability and less turnover moving forward); 5) changing the seed grant program (SSRGP) to require subsequent submission of an 1 extramural proposal, and expanding program funding by 50% (with buy-in from the MLPS, HFA, and Bren Deans) to cover social scientists with appointments outside the Social Science Division; and 6) working with the Director of Research Development to rewrite the social science RD position description to include performance targets and a series of targeted to general mixer/outreach activities during each year. Finally, I prepared for, and responded to, the first external review of ISBER since 1998. Several of the recommendations coming out of the review have already been satisfied but there remains plenty of room for the next ISBER Director, Stuart Smith, to continue to refine and develop the services and intellectual context provided by ISBER. The remainder of this report provides details on the research portfolio managed by ISBER, research development activities, and some accounting of the constituency we have served over the past year. For the financial picture, comparisons throughout are to prior year activities. 2. Grants Administration at ISBER A descriptive picture of ISBER’s 2016-2017 grants administration is provided by the following statistics. For purposes of comparison, last year’s figures are in parentheses: ● ISBER supported 107 (100) PIs and co-PIs on the projects it administered. ● ISBER administered 253 (246) projects, including 101 (104) extramural projects, and 152 (142) intramural projects, programs, seed funding, conferences and other projects. ● The total value of new awards for the year was $4.4 million ($4.5m). ● The total value of all funds administered, including multi-year grants administered was $23,710,415 ($25,129,629). ● ISBER submitted 98 (92) proposals for funding and 61 (72) were from ladder faculty. ● The value of the proposals submitted was $15.7 million ($25.5m). ● The number of PIs new to ISBER was 27 (38), 17 (26) of which were ladder faculty. ISBER submitted 7 (5) graduate student proposals. 3. Research Development at ISBER ISBER serves the campus both through grants administration and through its research development programs. The ISBER grant programs not only enhance the research mission for the campus, but also reflect ISBER’s role in promoting 2 social science and serving social science researchers. ISBER offers significant service to individual faculty in the pre-proposal stage, both in working directly with researchers to help them formulate projects, and to identify potential funding sources and development of proposals. Graduate students are also the beneficiaries of ISBER’s research development support. Services provided include training in electronic funding searches targeted to specific research projects, funding opportunity advice and dissemination, conceptualizing and designing consultation for project development, and detailed proposal consultation. ISBER administers the Social Science Research Grants Program (SSRGP). The ISBER Director manages the selection committee and makes all decisions regarding NCE or post-award budget requests. This is an important research development activity that is intended to provide seed funding for new research, proof of concept funding for intellectually risky research, and is particularly targeted to junior faculty. Awards are made on a competitive, peer- reviewed basis with the review committee composed of senior social science faculty who have successful extramural funding track records. For the 2016-17 proposal round the committee was composed of Michael Gurven (Anthropology), Hahrie Han (Political Science), Nelson Lichtenstein (History), and Simone Pulver (Environmental Studies). In 2016-17, the SSRGP received 12 (14) proposals from social science and other faculty, requesting $87,176 ($108,957) in support. We awarded 9 (8) grants to faculty members in 7 (6) departments. Award sizes ranged from $3,500 to $8,000. 6 of the 12 proposals were from junior faculty and five (5) received awards. Also, please see details on further research development activities provided by Dr. Barbara Walker in the next section of the report. 4. ISBER’S Support of the UCSB Community Although ISBER is nominally the campus’s social science ORU, in fact it serves the entire campus community. During the past year, ISBER had 297 paid employees engaged in research or supporting ISBER’s research mission. This included 63 faculty members receiving summer salaries or course release, 18 academic coordinators or others receiving administrative stipends, 8 professional researchers, 2 research specialists or project scientists, 8 postdoctoral scholars, 94 graduate students, 59 undergraduate students (as well as 371 unpaid volunteers or interns), 11 technical staff and 34 administrative staff. This year, there were an additional 15 persons from outside UCSB participating in ISBER- managed UCSB projects. 3 During the past year 62% of its 107 faculty members with awards administered by ISBER were members in the Social Science Division of the College of Letters and Science. ISBER researchers come from 37 different departments in all three divisions of the College, including: Anthropology History Asian American Studies History of Art & Architecture Bren School of Environmental ISBER Science and Management Chemical Engineering Linguistics Materials Research Lab Chemistry & Biochemistry Office of the Dean of Students Chicana/Chicano Studies College of Engineering Office of Education Partnerships Communication Political Sciences Computer Science Psychological & Brain Sciences East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies Recreation Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology Religious Studies Economics Sociology English Statistics & Applied Probability Environmental Studies Student Affairs Feminist Studies Summer Sessions Film & Media Studies Technology Management Program Geography Writing Program Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Women’s Center Global & International Studies Even this diverse picture is not an accurate reflection of ISBER’s scope, since numerous projects include
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