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Spotlight on the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Tue 5 Sep 2023

Spotlight on the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) is the largest German infrastructure institute for the social sciences and Germany is already a member of CESSDA. Hear from Researcher Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen.

Cross-disciplinary use of socioeconomic data in vaccine research
Fri 1 Sep 2023

Cross-disciplinary use of socioeconomic data in vaccine research

Socioeconomic data can provide important insights for infectious diseases research, including vaccines, as well as policy for disease preparedness and mitigation. For example, social sciences can help understand how infectious diseases spread among and impact different segments of society such as different socioeconomic groups or economic sectors; how effective different government strategies are at combating the spread of a virus; or how political and psychological factors can affect vaccine uptake; provide the socioeconomic elements on which policies and communication actions should focus and/or adapt in order to be more efficient.

CESSDA is hiring the Head of Information & Technology (IT)
Fri 18 Aug 2023

CESSDA is hiring the Head of Information & Technology (IT)

We are looking to hire the Head of IT to work at CESSDA Main Office in Bergen, Norway. Join our team!

CESSDA looks back at the TRIPLE project
Thu 3 Aug 2023

CESSDA looks back at the TRIPLE project

Since 2019, 22 partners from 15 countries have worked on developing the multilingual discovery service GoTriple, which covers 11 languages and 27 disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

Towards Sharing Social Media Data for Research Purposes - A CESSDA Survey on Researchers' Attitudes
Thu 13 Jul 2023

Towards Sharing Social Media Data for Research Purposes - A CESSDA Survey on Researchers' Attitudes

In 2021, CESSDA initiated a survey on the experiences, motivations, and requirements of researchers working with social media data (SMD). This initiative led to the article `Sharing Social Media Data: The Role of Past Experiences, Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control´, published in Frontiers in Big Data.

New version of CESSDA Vocabulary Service is released
Mon 26 Jun 2023

New version of CESSDA Vocabulary Service is released

Earlier this year CESSDA has released version 3.0.0 of the CESSDA Vocabulary Service which was a great milestone for our infrastructure. Since May, version 3.2.0 is available – which means that this unique tool is more stable, more usable and has more features than before.