Items & Issues Newsletter

This month's theme focuses on youth and child development—an area of study in pursuit of greater flourishing and more equitable outcomes for all children and young people. The Council recently announced the LEGO Foundation Fellowship, developed in partnership with the LEGO Foundation as part of the Foundation's 40th anniversary. This global initiative supports researchers working to deepen our understanding of how children thrive. Spanning disciplines from education and psychology to public health, data science, and humanitarian studies, the fellowship brings together early- and mid-career scholars whose work has the potential to generate evidence that matters for children's lives.

Welcome to Items & Issues, the relaunched monthly newsletter from the Social Science Research Council. Since 1947, Items has served as a platform for sharing the SSRC’s work and fostering broader conversations about the social sciences. This newsletter continues that tradition, offering a curated selection of social science readings drawn from Council platforms and the […]

The SSRC's first-ever research committee was formed in response to the restrictive immigration laws of the 1920s. A century later, as enforcement and detention expand and public scrutiny of federal immigration operations increases, this issue of Items & Issues gathers social science research on immigration and its connections to labor, race, foreign policy, surveillance, and more.

This month's Items & Issues Newsletter theme theme is Urbanism and Infrastructure, focusing on how people interact with the built environment and how city infrastructure can best serve public needs.