Dr. Kiley Hamlin
Dr. J. Kiley Hamlin is leading an international team of researchers and partners who have received a SSHRC Partnership Grant to support large-scale collaboration in social science research.
On July 9, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry, announced over $1.3 billion in funding to support over 9,700 researchers and research projects across Canada.
Among the recipients is UBC Psychology Professor Dr. J. Kiley Hamlin, alongside Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein (Concordia University) and Dr. Melanie Soderstrom (University of Manitoba), who received a $2.5 million Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant to support the project Coordinated Network of Networks for Enhancing Collaborative Teams (CONNECT).
Dr. Kiley Hamlin (left) with Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Mélanie Joly (second from left) and other funding recipients
“Social scientists studying human and animal behaviour are increasingly aware of the pressing need for large-scale collaborations in order to facilitate larger and more representative samples of research participants, researchers, and research questions.”
CONNECT unites seven Big Team Social Science (BTSS) networks, four community partners, and an international consortium of researchers. With over 3,500 researchers from over 70 countries, the partnership represents a collaboration of unprecedented scope. At the core of CONNECT is a shared goal to improve the impact and efficiency of research in the social and behavioural sciences.
Dr. Hamlin says large-scale research is a persistent challenge that prevents current “Big Team Social Science” from meeting their potential. This funding meets that challenge.
“Social scientists studying human and animal behaviour are increasingly aware of the pressing need for large-scale collaborations in order to facilitate larger and more representative samples of research participants, researchers, and research questions,” says Dr. Hamlin.
“Our partnership will pave the way for more efficient and successful large-scale social science collaborations, ultimately improving the social and behavioural sciences as a whole.”
Dr. Hamlin adds, “our partnership will pave the way for more efficient and successful large-scale social science collaborations, ultimately improving the social and behavioural sciences as a whole. Funding a partnership at this scale brings together existing BTSS networks with like-minded community and university partners to assess current BTSS challenges, design solutions to address them, and test those solutions across these networks.”
Congratulations to Dr. Hamlin and the project team!
Project co-directors
- Krista Byers-Heinlein, Concordia University
- Melanie Soderstrom, University of Manitoba
Co-applicants
- Brianna McMillan, Smith College
- Casey Lew-Williams, Princeton University
- Eon-Suk Ko, Chosun University
- Michael Frank, Stanford University
Collaborator
- Christina Bergmann, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Partners
- Canadian Reproducibility Network, Ottawa, Ontario
- Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Chosun University, South Korea
- Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
- ManyBirds Project, United Kingdom
- ManyDogs Project, Lincoln, Nebraska
- ManyFishes, Pittsburg, Kansas
- ManyPrimates, United Kingdom
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
- Psychological Science Accelerator, Ashland, Ohio
- Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
- Stanford University, Stanford, California,
- Universidad de Sonora, Mexico
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
