Build and Broaden: Strengthening Social Science Research Infrastructure at the University

由于缺乏关于众多少数民族人口的公众意见的高质量数据，社会科学研究受到限制。这种高质量数据的缺乏往往是由于缺乏社会科学研究基础设施。基础设施的缺乏与沉重的债务、连续多年的灾难性自然灾害、迅速的人口流失以及从国家政府获得支持的机会有限有关。该项目是一个已建立的调查研究机构与MSI之间的合作，目的是加强MSI的社会科学研究基础设施，并改善基础设施，以衡量和分析有关服务不足和研究不足的少数民族人口的公众意见。该项目建立的基础设施将有助于对少数民族人口进行学术研究，并将通过民意调查向迄今尚未得到充分研究的人口发出声音。此外，建立的调查基础设施将为MSI的大学附属机构提供一个急需的研究工具，以提高他们的奖学金。该项目将启动MSI和密歇根大学之间的一项新的长期合作，以收集、组织和传播有关公众舆论、政治行为和政治机构的数据。这种伙伴关系的目标是：(1)为MSI的教师提供高质量的工具，以支持和推进他们的研究议程；(2)为MSI的本科生和研究生提供研究机会和培训；(3)为学术、政府和非营利机构的研究人员提供高质量的数据，促进对感兴趣人群的研究；(4)提供一种经过科学验证的工具，以准确捕捉未被研究人口成员的政治、经济和社会偏好和经验。在合作的第一阶段结束时，团队希望完成以下工作：调查设计；抽样框架；数据收集计划，最大限度地提高调查的代表性，同时最大限度地降低成本；确保基础设施的财政和后勤可持续性的计划；质量控制检查；并计划以支持当地机构和研究人员的方式传播和存档数据。通过建立收集、组织和传播公众意见和其他政治动态数据的基础设施，这项合作将为支持MSI学生和教师的研究创造许多新的可能性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Social science research is limited by a lack of high-quality data about public opinion on numerous minority populations. This lack of high-quality data is often due to a lack of social science research infrastructure. This lack of infrastructure is related to crippling debt, consecutive years of catastrophic natural disasters, rapid population loss, and limited access to support from the national government. This project is a collaboration between an established institution in survey research and a MSI to strengthen social science research infrastructure at the MSI and to improve infrastructure for measuring and analyzing public opinion about an underserved and understudied minority population. The project builds infrastructure that will aide in the production of academic research in and on a minority population and will provide a voice, through opinion polling, to the heretofore understudied population. In addition, the survey infrastructure established will provide University affiliates at the MSI with access to a much-needed research tool to advance their scholarship. This project will initiate a new, long-term collaboration between the MSI and the University of Michigan to collect, organize, and disseminate data on public opinion, political behavior, and political institutions of an underserved population. The goals of this partnership are to: (1) provide the MSI's faculty with high-quality tools to support and advance their research agendas; (2) provide both undergraduate and graduate students at the MSI with research opportunities and training; (3) provide researchers at academic, governmental, and nonprofit institutions with high-quality data that advances research on the population of interest; and (4) provide a scientifically validated vehicle to accurately capture the political, economic, and social preferences and experiences of members of the understudied population. At the end of this first phase of this collaboration, the team expects to have the following in place: a survey design; a sampling framework; a data collection plan that maximizes the representative nature of the survey while minimizing costs; a plan to ensure the financial and logistical sustainability of the infrastructure; quality control checks; and a plan to disseminate and archive the data in a way that supports local institutions and researchers. By building infrastructure to collect, organize, and disseminate data on public opinion and other political dynamics, this collaboration will create many new possibilities to support the research of the MSI's students and faculty.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.