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NSF webinar highlights the rationale and development of the Common Forms for grant applications, key changes from current forms, and generation of forms using SciENcv. Read more in the Washington Update: https://hubs.ly/Q02wRlpP0

📢 Calling all researchers, policymakers, educators, and more! NCSES has issued a new Request for Information (RFI) via the America's DataHub Consortium seeking input on Use Cases to Inform a Future National Secure Data Service (NSDS).  The goal is to gather current and anticipated research, policy, program, and education use cases for an NSDS, and to also identify current and anticipated challenges and barriers that could be addressed through the use of an NSDS. The submission deadline is June 14, 2024, at 5 PM ET.   💡 Share your RFI responses using this online form: https://bit.ly/446SOrm  

Got an idea for how you could use shared services designed to streamline and innovate data access, data linkage, and privacy-protection? Share your Use Cases to illustrate how a future National Secure Data Service could support your #evidencebuilding, #policyanalysis, #performancemeasurement, and #evaluation needs. Please share widely in your networks. Heads up to: Evaluation.gov Federal Chief Data Officers Council Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

View our latest report on Effect Size Database a free repository that reports effect sizes associated with studies in the YEF Evidence and Gap Map. It helps researchers design impact evaluations by presenting expected effect sizes for interventions and contexts, aiding in future systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Review here: https://buff.ly/3VGx024

Happy to share our new paper with Prof. Shervin Assari  This paper introduces the concept of Quantitative Intersectionality Scoring System (QISS), a novel approach that assigns numerical scores to intersecting identities, thereby enabling a more systematic and data-driven analysis of intersectional effects. We argue that QISS can substantially enhance the utility and predictive validity of quantitative models by capturing the complexities of multiple, overlapping social determinants. By presenting concrete examples, such as the varying impacts of socioeconomic mobility on life expectancy among different intersectional groups, we demonstrate how QISS can yield more precise and reliable forecasts. Such a shift would allow policymakers and service providers to dynamically assess economic and health needs, as well as the uncertainties around them, as individuals move through different social and economic contexts. QISS-based models could be more responsive to the complexities of intersecting identities, allowing for a more quantified and nuanced evaluation of policy interventions. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eHCc6ths

A new InfoBrief uses three NCSES data sources to understand the trends in funding for basic research over the past several decades, with an emphasis on federal funding.   At the turn of the century, the federal government funded approximately 60% of basic research. In 2022, this share had dropped to an estimated 40%. At the same time, federal budget authority and federal obligations for basic research as a share of total federal R&D are among the highest levels they have been. Discover more insights in the Analysis of Federal Funding for Research and Development in 2022: Basic Research: https://bit.ly/3SPimoC  

Absolutely delighted that our *extremely* special anniversary issue of Local Government Studies, "50 years of LGS: the past, present, and future of local government studies" is now fully available. We are really pleased that *all papers are free to access* (thank you to our publishers at Taylor and Francis!), and it has a lovely golden cover too 😊. The issue includes an editorial introduction by all five editors (Claudia Nancy Avellaneda, Germa Bel, me, Marc Esteve and Seulki Lee), as well as Chair of the Editorial Board Catherine Durose. This draws on a bibliometric analysis of papers published in LGS over the last five decades to highlight how it has evolved from a largely practitioner- and UK-focused publication into an internationally-renowned academic journal that draws on increasingly sophisticated methods, theories and approaches. We then discuss the remaining 19 think pieces that feature in the issue, which reflect on what the discipline of local government studies should focus on, outline various policy and managerial challenges that municipalities will need to address, and suggest that both practitioners and academics need to play a key role in furthering our knowledge of how local government operates in contemporary societies. We conclude by placing LGS at the vanguard of these debates on the past, present, and future of the discipline. Together, these reflection pieces provide a great summary of how the discipline has evolved, its current status, and where it might go in future. Contributors have included Arianna Giovannini, Madeleine Pill, Mark Sandford, Mila Gasco Hernandez, Marta Olazabal, Roberto Falanga, Catherine Mangan, Catherine Needham, Dave Mckenna, Jason Lowther, joyce liddle, Pengju Zhang, David Guo, Tom Arnold, Matthew McKenna, Bethany Rex, André C B Aquino, Yanwei Li, Andrew Walker, Greg Stride, and many others not on LinkedIn. It has been a great pleasure and honour to edit this SI with Catherine Durose, and we hope this will be a landmark set of papers for scholars of local government, public policy, administration and management, as well as political science. We all look forward to future discussions about these topics in the journal. https://lnkd.in/eT-s5fX9

Download our 19th Public Report to discover all the changes the PIOB and the standard-setting ecosystem have undergone this year, and learn about the work we have carried out to serve the public interest. Don't forget to leave a comment and share our report! https://lnkd.in/equ-Z7-r #ChangeIsHere #PublicInterest #StandardSetting

From 1 January 2025, the HRB Open Access policy will move to ‘full and immediate Open Access’. The policy will apply to peer-reviewed research articles, conference proceedings and review articles. See: https://bit.ly/49HoKFQ

Please tell your colleagues in prostate cancer research about this webinar on tips for a successful grant application to Prostate Cancer Research, where I'm a trustee—an excellent organization that makes an outsized impact!