ISBERISBER InstituteInstitute forfor Social,Social, BehavioralBehavioral && EconomicEconomic ResearchResearch UniversityUniversity ofof CaliforniaCalifornia SantaSanta BarbaraBarbara ANNUALANNUAL REPORTREPORT 2015-20162015-2016 www.isber.ucsb.eduwww.isber.ucsb.edu INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (ISBER) ANNUAL REPORT July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 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 2015-2016 www.isber.ucsb.edu Director’s Statement July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 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. ISBER went through an external review during the 2014-15 academic year, the ERC report was delivered in July 2015, and ISBER's response to the report was delivered to OR in July 2016. The response was produced with strong input and backing from ISBER's Advisory Committee. In the response, and reflecting the ERC's recommendations, I requested that two issues be resolved in the near term: 1) that "Outreach" programs currently housed in ISBER be moved to another administrative unit, and that until that transfer is made ISBER should receive additional FTE support to compensate for the administrative burden, 2) I requested funding for an Associate Director position to oversee events that would enhance the research culture and foster cross-disciplinary collaborations, and a return of Barbara Walker's time to a full social science research development support position. Her position had been drifting towards supporting HSI initiatives on campus. We expect to make progress on both fronts this year by working with OR, the Social Science Dean's office and the EVC's office. In fact, Barbara Walker's position has already been adjusted to return her research development services to ISBER. The other requests are still pending. The ERC also endorsed my plans to review ISBER Centers. The review process has commenced and the advisory committee will receive the first set of review documents this October. The Center for Information Technology in Society is the focus of this first review. The ERC also encouraged ISBER to better leverage campus funds to stimulate social science extramural funding. We have already acted on this recommendation. During the summer I brokered agreements with the MLPS Dean, HFA Dean, and 1 Bren School Dean that they will also contribute to the SSRGP funding pool. This was done in recognition that social science research is not restricted to the social science division. This infusion of funding increased the available SSRGP funds per year by 50%. We also changed the award conditions such that faculty receiving an SSRGP award are required to submit a proposal for extramural funding within two years of the award to remain eligible for future SSRGP funding. Barbara Walker will assist each SSRGP recipient in crafting proposals for extramural funding. 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 2015-2016 grants administration is provided by the following statistics. For purposes of comparison, last year’s figures are in parentheses: • ISBER supported 100 (103) PIs and co-PIs on the projects it administered. • ISBER administered 246 (250) projects, including 104 (106) extramural projects, and 142 (144) intramural projects, programs, seed funding, conferences and other projects. • The total value of new awards for the year was $4.1 million ($5.6m). • The total value of all funds administered, including multi-year grants administered was $25,129,629($24,981,805). • ISBER submitted 92 (67) proposals for funding and 72 (55) were from ladder faculty. • The value of the proposals submitted was $25.5 million ($28.4m). • The number of PIs new to ISBER was 38 (17), 26 (11) of which were ladder faculty. ISBER submitted 5 (3) 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 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 2 proposal consultation. ISBER administers the Social Science Research Grants Program (SSRGP). ISBER Director Sweeney 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 2015-16 proposal round the committee was composed of Sarah Anderson (Bren), Susie Cassels (Geography), Lisa Park (ASAMST), and Heather Royer (Economics). In 2015-16, the SSRGP received 14 (9) proposals from social science faculty, requesting $108,957 ($69,313) in support. We awarded 8 (6) grants to faculty members in 6 (4) departments. Award sizes ranged from $6,000 to $8,000. 8 of the 14 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 193 paid employees engaged in research or supporting ISBER’s research mission. This included 25 faculty members receiving summer salaries or course release, 9 academic coordinators or others receiving administrative stipends, 5 professional researchers, 6 research specialists or project scientists, 5 postdoctoral scholars, 79 graduate students, 31 undergraduate students (as well as 347 unpaid volunteers or interns), 10 technical staff and 28 administrative staff. This year, there were an additional 17 persons from outside UCSB participating in ISBER- managed UCSB projects. During the past year 62% of its 109 faculty members who were paid or unpaid PIs and co-PIs were members in the Social Science Division of the College of Letters and Science. ISBER researchers come from 38 different departments in all three divisions of the College, including: Anthropology French & Italian Asian American Studies Geography Black Studies Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Bren School of Environmental Global & International Studies Science and Management Center for Black Studies History Chemical Engineering History of Art & Architecture Chemistry & Biochemistry ISBER Chicana/Chicano Studies Linguistics College of Engineering Materials Research Lab 3 Communication Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Computer Science Office of the Dean of Students East Asian Languages & Cultural Office of Education Partnerships Studies Earth Science Philosophy Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology Political Sciences Economics Psychological & Brain Sciences English Recreation Environmental Studies Religious Studies Feminist Studies Sociology Film & Media Studies Student Affairs Even this diverse picture is not an accurate reflection of ISBER’s scope, since numerous projects include many additional participants. Among the 142 Principal Investigators, 109 are active ladder faculty serving as PIs and co-PIs.