Feature Stories - Social Science Research Center

Addressing Inequalities at Home and Abroad: How the Gender Impacts Lab’s work cover continents

“Gender and health disparities cut across all of our work, and we constantly see so many similarities even though the people we work with are living in very different countries and cultures,” said Kathleen Ragsdale, co-director of the Gender Impacts… Continue Reading Addressing Inequalities at Home and Abroad: How the Gender Impacts Lab’s work cover continents

Social Relations Collaborative’s 4-Year Study Comes to a Close

The Social Relations Collaborative, which was formerly known The Advanced Social Psychology Lab, was founded at Mississippi State University in 2005. Since its transition in 2012, the Collaborative has been inviting the perspectives of multiple fields in which its collaborative… Continue Reading Social Relations Collaborative’s 4-Year Study Comes to a Close

Digging into Big Data: How the SSRC’s newest lab is using open source data and computer science

“Quarantine, a time some people might view as a downtime, really was used for creativity and advancement of knowledge for us because that’s when the lab was developed,” said Megan Stubbs-Richardson, an assistant research professor at the Social Science Research… Continue Reading Digging into Big Data: How the SSRC’s newest lab is using open source data and computer science

Loehwing Calls For Civic Communities Through Civic Life Laboratory

by Madeline Burdine Along with her full-time job serving as an associate professor and the director of the communication studies concentration within Mississippi State University’s Department of Communication, Dr. Melanie Loehwing is also using the Civic Life Laboratory (CLL) to… Continue Reading Loehwing Calls For Civic Communities Through Civic Life Laboratory

NEW UNIT FORMALIZES EVALUATION WORK

This opens the door for collaboration, and lets others know we exist, and we are here to provide these services,” said Connie Baird-Thomas of the newly formed Evaluation and Research Group at the SSRC. Conversations about the evaluation services they… Continue Reading NEW UNIT FORMALIZES EVALUATION WORK

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