There is a Limited Submission Opportunity (LSO) for UW researchers and collaborators to take up the leadership of the General Social Survey (GSS) and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP).  The NSF solicitation can be found here.  This major effort to continue and innovate the longstanding surveys with funding from the NSF requires only one submission from an institution.  Within the UW, the Limited Submissions Office will select one competitive applicant.

Please submit:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

Above materials should be submitted to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 20, 2024. If given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee, a required LOI with AOR signature is due 6/3/2024, then the full application is due 8/15/2024. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the limited submissions review committee review and selection process, are here:http://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions. Please feel free to email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page.

The solicitation seeks a new team to take up the continuing effort of the General Social Survey and the International Social Survey Program, include team members that possess the theoretical, methodological, measurement and managerial skills, as well as organizational resources, to undertake large-scale survey data collection efforts.  They are seeking proposals that will consider some or all of the following: continue surveying a nationally representative sample on a biennial cycle to monitor trends in attitudes and behaviors of the adult United States population; enhance the panel design whose baseline sample was initiated in the 2006 survey; maintain participation in the ISSP data collection program; involve the Scientific Advisory Board actively in selecting, evaluating and approving the content of both core and topical survey modules; support a “module” competition that would allow members of the Scientific Advisory Board and other social scientists to propose topics and questions for inclusion in the GSS; encourage experimentation and innovation in survey administration and techniques, embedding methodological and substantive experiments within the survey; retain and revitalize GSS core items, involving the user community and Board in the process; continue to explore ways to over-sample minority groups, improving the quality and precision of comparisons, and collect more “paradata” and “metadata” from the process and context of survey administration; experiment with digital recording of interviews to enable studies of social interaction that occurs during interviews, using the results both to improve data quality and to encourage the integration of qualitative and quantitative data; upgrade documentation and dissemination technologies to improve the speed, completeness and ease of use of data for research and teaching; improve the variety and flexibility of data available online, allowing potential users to produce customized data sets (for example, by year, topic, module or ethnic group) for analysis; continue collaboration with the American National Election Surveys (ANES).