Broader Impacts Criteria Discussion with NSF SBE Directors

NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences supports basic research on people and society. The SBE sciences focus on human behavior and social organizations and how social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental forces affect the lives of people from birth to old age and how people in turn shape those forces (https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/about.jsp).

On March 18, 2021, the NSF SBE released a new framework for articulating broader impacts in research proposals. Learn more here: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21059/nsf21059.jsp.

NSF's existing criteria for evaluating research proposals through both intellectual merit and broader impacts remain unchanged. The new framework offers guidance on how researchers can better articulate the potential impacts of their proposed research and how those impacts can lead to benefits for society, including improved quality of life. The framework includes questions for researchers to consider when developing the broader impacts of their research and suggestions on how to explain them.

“By effectively describing a project's potential broader impacts, researchers can help others understand the relevance of that research to their lives,” says Arthur Lupia, head of NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Invited Speakers: • Dr. Lupia, Assistant Director of the NSF & head of SBE • Dr. WinklerPrins, Deputy Division Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, staff, and faculty are encouraged to attend, but registration is limited to 60.

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