Connect, collaborate, and build momentum. The CSBS Assistant Professor Gathering brings early-career faculty together for a day of meaningful networking, skill-building, and collaboration designed to spark new research partnerships. Through interactive sessions and guided activities, participants will expand their research communities and gain practical tools to move their work forward.
The IDES Brown Bag Series creates space for interdisciplinary dialogue on the complex roots of inequality and the research approaches used to address them. Drawing from the strengths of the social and behavioral sciences, these sessions highlight work that examines inequities across systems, communities, and lived experiences—while encouraging new perspectives and collaborations.
Attendees are invited to explore why understanding history matters for research and community impact by viewing the Journey to Freedom: Illinois’ Underground Railroad exhibit and participating in a panel discussion.
Participants will develop research dissemination plans for their own community-engaged research projects, focusing on sharing findings with stakeholders, communities, and partners directly rather than through academic publications.
This session in the Emerging Investigators Series is designed for early- and mid-career social and behavioral science researchers who are considering—or actively pursuing—changes in their research programs. The event builds on the series’ focus on sustaining and advancing research in the current funding landscape.
Building on the foundations introduced in the previous workshop, this session will focus on tree-based methods for classification and regression (e.g., decision trees, bagging, random forests, boosting). Participants will review the usage of tree-based methods in recent literature and apply these techniques in a hands-on exercise.
As AI tools become central to social science research, understanding their limitations is just as important as using them. Register to learn how cutting-edge AI methods are being applied to complex social phenomena.
The Emerging Investigators series continues this semester with a focus on moving your research forward in the current funding landscape. The first lunch will feature a panel of social and behavioral science faculty who have been impressively effective at conducting impactful research with relatively few funds.
Due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, this event has been POSTPONED. CSBS remains committed to hosting this important event and will share a new date as soon as it becomes available. CSBS is pleased to welcome Dr. Becky Miller, Program Leader at the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director, for an in-depth seminar […]
As part of the Center for Social & Behavioral Science Methods Series, CSBS partnered with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to host a full-day workshop led by Dr. Jeff Levy, Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, focused on how machine learning can be applied in social and […]