Centers and Programs

The primary work of the Institute is divided among four areas: 

Research Centers

• Center for American Democracy
• Center on Poverty and Inequality
• Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
• Center for Population Research

Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Programs

• Computational Social Science  
• Cultures, Minds and Medicines  
• Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences
• Qualitative Methods Initiative

Core Support for Research

• Secure Data Facilities
• Research Experience Program
• IRiSS Fellows
• IRiSS Seed Grants

Major Independent Research Projects

• American National Election Studies
• Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
• The Mimir Project
• Trust Studies
• NSF Sponsored Postdoctoral Studies of the Great Recession

Additionally, the Institute provides support in the development and administration of grants from foundations and federal agencies.  Principal investigators from numerous departments and units run grants through the Institute.

Partnerships

Important collaborations have been established with the following institutions:

Within Stanford University
Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
Center for Deliberative Democracy
Stanford Center on Longevity
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford School of Education

Beyond campus
Foothill Community College, California
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan
Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany