2019-2020 ANNUAL REPORT Institute for Social Behavioral and Economic Research UC Santa Barbara www.isber.ucsb.edu INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (ISBER) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ANNUAL REPORT ​ ​ ​ July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020 TABLE OF LINKS 1. Mission Statement 2. Overview 3. Executive Summary 4. Organizational Chart 5. ISBER Advisory Committee, Administrative, and Technical Staff 6. Statistical Summary 7. Principal Investigators 8. UCSB Postdoctoral Researchers, Graduate and Undergraduate Students 9. External Participation 10. Other Projects and Activities 11. Center Reports and Other Programs 12. Awards Administered 13. Graphs and Charts 2019-2020 Mission Statement Institute for Social Behavioral & www.isber.ucsb.edu Economic Research ISBER Mission Statement July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020 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) proposal development assistance 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. 2019-2020 Overview Institute for Social Behavioral & www.isber.ucsb.edu Economic Research ISBER Overview July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020 ISBER offers significant individual services to faculty, researchers, and graduate students with proposal preparation, submission and grant administration. Services include 1) assistance with budget preparations and formatting, and ensuring proposals comply with sponsor’s and UC guidelines prior to submission; and 2) post-award administration, including the financial management, monitoring and closeout of awards and projects. ISBER administers the Social Science Research Grants Program (SSRGP) and Collaborative Research Initiative Grant (C-RIG). The ISBER Director manages the selection committee and makes all decisions regarding NCE or post-award budget requests. The SSRGP 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. During the past academic year, ISBER also issued the third call for the revived C-RIG. The purpose of this program is to provide resources to encourage the formation of new multidisciplinary and multi-methodological collaborative groups, which will seek extramural funding through the creation of working groups and/or execution of pilot studies. Awards for both programs 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. The Director includes a summary of the panel discussion that provides critical feedback for all of the proposals. Both the SSRGP and CRIG grants were evaluated by the same ad-hoc committee, consisting of Paul Amar (Global Studies), Dolores Ines Casillas (Chicano/a Studies), Barbara Harthorn (Anthropology), Miriam Kia-Keating (GGSE), Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies), and Paul Spikard (History). In response to the pandemic, ISBER put out a special call for Rapid COVID proposals under both programs with a rolling deadline. Nine of fourteen proposals approved for funding were related to the pandemic. Although ISBER is nominally the campus’s social science ORU, in fact it serves the entire campus community. During the past year, ISBER had 261 paid employees engaged in research or supporting ISBER’s research mission. This included 45 faculty members receiving summer salaries, course release, or administrative stipends, 13 academic coordinators, 2 professional researchers, 2 project scientists, 8 postdoctoral scholars, 88 graduate students, 71 undergraduate students (as well as 323 unpaid undergrad and graduate volunteers or interns), 6 technical staff and 26 administrative staff. This year, there were an additional 126 persons from outside UCSB participating in ISBER-managed UCSB projects. During the past year 64% of its 98 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 29 different departments in all three divisions of the College. Even this diverse picture is not an accurate reflection of ISBER’s scope, since numerous projects include many additional participants. Among the 179 Principal Investigators that ISBER assisted throughout the year (with proposals & awards), 121 are active ladder faculty serving as PIs and co-PIs. Of those, 20% are at the Assistant Professor rank, 21% at the Associate Professor rank, and 59% at the Full Professor rank. 1 Several research centers operate directly under or with ISBER’s support. The most active of these include the Broom Center for Demography, which facilitates interdisciplinary research and training in social demography and population studies, with particular strengths in the study of socioeconomic inequality and health disparities. The Center for Information Technology and Society spans the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering with the goal of understanding and guiding the development, use, and effects of information technologies in contemporary society. The Center for Middle East Studies strives to enrich the academic study of the Middle East. The mission of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies is to provide an intellectual and programmatic focus for the University’s activities in global, international, and area studies. The mission of the Blum Center is to harness interdisciplinary perspectives to research the sources, mechanisms and consequences of Global Poverty in order to develop, assess and act on promising social and technical solutions that promote sustainable development. ISBER continues to provide grants administration support to programs funded to increase campus undergraduate and graduate diversity, and student counseling and advocacy support services. ISBER entered the 13th year of grants administration for the campus Office of Education Partnerships, which serves UCSB’s mission to promote academic success and increase college-going rates among pre K-20 students in our region. Grants supporting the Office of Education Partnerships, include funding from UCOP/UC MESA for the MESA College Prep Program (MCP), the MESA University Program (MUP), and the Destination College Advising Corps (DCAC) Program, totaling $356,221. The McNair Scholars Program continues to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education (awarded $1.16M), and continues to receive support from the Executive Vice Chancellor, Graduate Division, and the College of Letters & Science, in addition to gifts provided by Southern California Edison totaling $280,000 annually. ISBER also provides grants administration support for Summer Sessions, the Division of Student Affairs, including the Women, Gender, and Sexual Equity Department, Recreation, and UCSB’s Early Childhood and Education Services. $1.02M in funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice, the CA Department of Boating and Waterways, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, provides the campus student body with education, financial support, and training opportunities. These include, education on rape prevention and advocacy services, sailing and boating safety training for participants of UCSB’s Sailing Program. Dr. Barbara Walker provides Research Development (RD) support for all areas of social science and humanistic social science research; interdisciplinary research that includes social science or societal components; and for faculty from all UCSB Colleges who pursue extramural funding to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. ISBER welcomed 38 new researchers in 2019-2020 who either submitted proposals or administered grants for the first time through our ORU. These included 10 assistant professors, 4 associate professors, 7 full professors, 11 graduate students, and 6 other researchers. These scholars came from 7 social science and 7 other departments. During 2019-2020, Dr. Walker provided proposal review services to social science faculty members from all the departments in the Division of Social Science, in addition to social scientists who work in other Divisions at UCSB, including the Bren School, the Technology Management Program, Geography, and Environmental Studies. In addition to the Immigration Symposium, she organized and/or presented 13 workshops and events related to research funding. 2 2019-2020 Executive Summary Institute for Social Behavioral & www.isber.ucsb.edu Economic Research ISBER Executive Summary July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020 ISBER serves the campus both through grants administration and its research development programs, serving a broad constituency in the Social Sciences and beyond. BarbaraWalker worked with ISBER to offer workshops for grant writing and other activities supporting social science researchers, including the successful Immigration Symposium co-sponsored by ISBER, the Office of Research, Division of Social Sciences and Blum Research Hub. Research Accomplishments ISBER supported projects investigating a wide range of topics. A descriptive picture of the scope of ISBER’s 2019-2020 grants administration is provided