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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)
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
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
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
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.
CESSDA supporting social science data archiving in Ukraine
The operations of the Kyiv Archive were greatly impacted by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, leading to the urgency to safeguard the valuable data accumulated and the risks of it being destroyed. In response, the CESSDA General Assembly has approved a special line of funding to support the Kyiv Archive. In particular the upgrade of the archive to the international standards and to provide support to its operations.