NASEM Hosts a Webinar on Continuing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in collaboration with the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS), and the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) hosted a webinar titled “Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding.”

Following actions made by the Trump Administration to cut research funding and terminate grants, the webinar sought to equip researchers with creative ways to fund their research (see previous COSSA coverage). NASEM offered potential ways to cut down on costs, including utilizing secondary sources as well as meta-analysis. Furthermore, they highlighted local field studies and alternative sources of funding as ways to conduct federally underfunded research. The presentations also emphasized the value of collaboration within the scientific community.

A recording of the webinar is available here.

This article was contributed by COSSA Intern Anne Tighe.