Webinar: Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding (09/22/25)
Posted: 9/18/2025 ()
WEBINAR: Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding (Virtual Event)
When: Monday, September 22nd (9:00AM – 12:00PM ET / 6:00AM – 9:00AM PT)
Graduate students, post-docs, and early-career faculty engaged in social-environmental research face an unprecedented research landscape. Decreased federal research funding will constrain their ability to continue their personal research programs, from dissertations to faculty research plans. Low-cost primary data collection, re-analysis of secondary data, creative use of available datasets, meta-analysis of existing studies, and localized field work can all be potential solutions.
The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS), and the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a webinar that showcases practical, low-cost methods to sustain meaningful environmental and societal research during times of limited financial support. The webinar is aimed at supporting graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty in environmental, social science, and associated disciplines.