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l (SSRC) Our Work FellowshipsOpportunities Initiatives About Donate New Report: Surveillance and the ‘New Normal’ of Covid-19: Public Health, Data, and Justice Read Image: BelkinCo / Adobe Covid-19 and the Social Sciences Page Navigation Initiatives Events Covid-19 Essay Forum Time Capsule Unnatural Disasters Partners Press Contact Us @ssrc_org Newsletter Covid-19 has upended societies and dramatically altered everyday life across the globe. Our present circumstances, while unprecedented, have been profoundly shaped by persistent societal realities—such as entrenched racial and economic inequality, the proliferation of misinformation, and anxieties about the ability of the world’s democracies to confront major crises. In-depth social understanding will be vital to apprehending the crisis and charting a path forward. Learn More Initiatives #coronavirussyllabus What scholarship, literature and art might help contextualize the multifaceted impact of Covid-19? Some suggestions are provided in this crowdsourced #coronavirussyllabus. Read about the origins of the #coronavirussyllabus here . Project Learn more A Decade Undone: Youth Disconnection in the Age of Coronavirus The SSRC’s Measure of America program presents the latest available data on America’s disconnected young people—youth ages 16–24 who are neither working nor in school—with analysis on the impact of Covid-19. Project Learn more Autoethnographies of a Pandemic from Brooklyn's Epicenter Autoethnographies from Brooklyn College student researchers from deeply-impacted communities in Brooklyn about their own histories and community experiences in and of the pandemic. Project Learn more CONVERGE Covid-19 Global Research Registry for Public Health and Social Sciences A worldwide registry for the identification of Covid-19-related research and risk reduction efforts, led by the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in partnership with the SSRC. Project Learn more Mediawell Covid-19 Research Disease outbreaks are often accompanied by misinformation narratives and the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus is no exception. This MediaWell space devoted to Covid-19 explores intersections between misinformation, science, fear, and public health. Project Learn more Public Health, Surveillance, and Human Rights Network The PHSHR Network is an international, interdisciplinary group of organizations and leaders from industry, civil society, government and academia focused on building frameworks that map and address the risks, opportunities, and challenges posed by the public health surveillance crucial to stemming the Covid-19 pandemic. Research Group Learn more Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences Covid-19 Rapid-Response Grants support projects from across the social sciences and related fields that address the social, economic, cultural, psychological, and political impact of Covid-19 in the United States and globally, as well as responses to the pandemic’s wide-ranging effects. Fellowship Learn more Societal Experts Action Network SSRC is pleased to be a collaborator with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) consisting of leading social, behavioral, and economic sciences experts to facilitate rapid responses and evidence-based recommendations to support local, state, and national decision-makers. Project Learn more Events Futures Forum on Preparedness January 12-13, 2020 Join leaders in science, policy, and social research at the Futures Forum on Preparedness, hosted in partnership with Schmidt Futures, for the debut of new research on the global Covid-19 response and to reimagine the future of public health. Full Details Reimagining Higher Education December 17, 2020 The Social Science Research Council and SAGE Publishing are pleased to present a series of conversations—REIMAGINING SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS—a public forum focused on the work of cultivating equitable, anti-racist social institutions. The second event in the series, REIMAGINING HIGHER EDUCATION, featured several prominent experts of inequality in higher education. Full Details Reimagining Schools October 28, 2020 The SSRC and SAGE Publishing are pleased to present the first of a series of conversations—REIMAGINING SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS—a public forum focused on the work of cultivating equitable, anti-racist social institutions. The first event in the series, REIMAGINING SCHOOLS, featured several prominent experts of inequality in higher education. Full Details Covid-19 and the Social Sciences Essay Forum Starting with SSRC president Alondra Nelson’s reflections on Society after Pandemic,” this series of essays explores the human, social, political, and ethical dimensions of Covid-19. These pieces call attention to how social research can shed light on the short- and long-term effects of the pandemic and what can be done to improve responses, both now and in the future. Society after Pandemic The question of how to reopen our societies in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic poses special questions for social researchers. How do the social conditions exposed, exacerbated, and created by the novel coronavirus demand that we substantively rethink our ideas of society and, therefore, some of the prevailing assumptions of social science? Covid-19 in Africa This series brings together the research and reflections of fellows of SSRC’s Africa programs, scholars, practitioners, and activists on the nature, impacts and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa, including its local-global connections. Democracy and Pandemics The spread of the novel coronavirus across the globe poses an enormous public health and economic crisis; similarly, it is a crisis of, and for governance. How is Covid-19 impacting democratic governance? What does the current crisis tell us about democratic strengths and weaknesses under states of emergency? Social Research and Insecurity Debates about research in insecure places foreshadowed the constraints that Covid-19 now imposes on all fieldwork. How has the pandemic changed research practice? What security and ethical concerns might be generated by remote research and transregional collaborations in insecure contexts? Disaster Studies This series of essays, drawing on insights from research on disasters and public health crises, will highlight how social research can shed light on the mutual effects of social inequality and events such as the Covid-19 pandemic over time. Pandemic, Religion, and Public Life This series draws together scholars across the social sciences and the humanities to address various questions raised or renewed by Covid-19, and its effects on religious and public life globally. Mediated Crisis Perhaps at a scale unseen before, the Covid-19 pandemic is experienced, managed, and coped with through a range of mediated experiences, positive and negative. This essay series examines the Covid-19 pandemic as part of a transition toward fully mediated moments of crisis. Policy Models in Pandemic These essays examine the use of policy modeling in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and how these methodologies may impact future decision making by both the public, experts, and policymakers. Covid-19 in East Asia In these essays, scholars examine how East Asian countries responded to the Covid-19 crisis, analyzing the pandemic’s impact from international relationships to domestic affairs. Covid-19 Fieldnotes from our Grantees Recipients of the SSRC’s Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences share their insights from the field. A Time Capsule for Future Social Researchers Inspired by the Council's Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology , we ask prominent scholars to select a visual artifact of this time that will help future researchers understand the Covid-19 crisis. Jill Fisher Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North...