Centers and Programs

The primary work of the Institute is divided among four areas: 

Research Centers

• Center for American Democracy (contains ANES)
• Center on Poverty and Inequality  (CPI)
• Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society  (PACS)
• Center for Population Research   (SCPR)
• Center for Computational Social Science    (CCSS)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Programs

• Cultures, Minds and Medicines   
• Data, Society and Inference Seminars  (DSI)
• Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences   (MAPSS)
• Qualitative Methods Initiative  (QMI)

Core Support for Research

• Secure Data Facilities
• Research Experience Program (REP)
• IRiSS Fellows
• IRiSS Seed Grants

Major Independent Research Projects

• National Science Foundation Sponsored Research
  • American National Election Studies (ANES)
  • Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE)
  • Postdoctoral Studies of the Great Recession
  • Conference on the Future of Survey Research
• The Mimir Project
• Trust Studies
• The Sharing Economy

Additionally, the Institute provides support in the development and administration of grants from foundations and federal agencies.  Principal investigators from numerous departments and units run grants through the Institute.

Partnerships

Important collaborations have been established with the following institutions:

Within Stanford University
Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
Center for Deliberative Democracy
Stanford Alumni Association
Stanford Center on Longevity
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford School of Education

Beyond campus
Foothill Community College, Los Altos HIlls, California
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Japan
Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
Mission College, Santa Clara, California