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© 2015 Duke CGGC
DUKE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SSRI):
AN OVERVIEW
Astana, KazakhstanNovember 18, 2015
Mike HensenDuke University,
Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness
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AGENDA
1. Institutional History of Duke SSRI
2. Evolution of Duke SSRI
“Pre-2013 Duke SSRI”
“2015 Duke SSRI”
3. Fitting the “New” SSRI into the Interdisciplinary
Landscape at Duke
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INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF DUKE SSRI
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DUKE SSRI
• Duke University 2001 strategic plan envisaged catalytic presence in interdisciplinary social science research and education
• SSRI opened its doors in 2003 as one of Duke’s signature institutes and Centers
• For the first 10 years, SSRI served as an incubator or umbrella institute for disparate research centers directed by individual Duke professors
• Provided administrative support to the centers in the areas of finance, information technology, human resources, grant administration and communications
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Economies of Scale• Shared Resources
Connecting Communities
WHY DOES SSRI EXIST?
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EVOLUTION OF DUKE SSRI
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“Pre-2013 SSRI”
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Year 1: Construction &Planning for
Gross Hall Move
Year 2: Move to Gross Hall and Pilot
Infrastructure in Gross Hall
Year 3: Introduction of fully operational
“New SSRI” to Campus and
incubate communities
3 YEAR TRANSITION TO “NEW” SSRI
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FITTING THE “NEW” SSRI INTO THE
INTERDISCIPLINARY LANDSCAPE AT DUKE
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SSRI RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
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EMERGING BIG “TREES” OF CONNECTED COMMUNITIES
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EHDi
EducationalPrograms
Research Working Groups
Bass Projects
UniversityPartnership
IncubatingResearchProjects
DataRepositories
CommunityProjects
PilotProjects
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DUKE SSRI
• So, how does this “interdisciplinary”
idea really function?
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Successful division of labor
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This evolution of disciplinary specialization has led to the most extraordinary advance in human knowledge and well-being.
So why isn’t it good enough?
CLAIM: The most pressing challenges we face in the 21st Centurycannot be addressed from within separated disciplines.
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Example of 21st Century Challenge
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Clinical research of course continues to be
vital …
… as does the search for more
sophisticated technological
advances.
But we now understand that behavioral choices are as important to medical outcomes as clinical treatments.
Which disciplines matter?
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Example of 21st Century Challenge
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Health care
But we now understand that behavioral choices are as important to medical outcomes as clinical treatments.
The historical context gives rise to the
political constraints reformers face …
… and provides the backdrop for deep
ethical inquiry as health care changes.
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Example of 21st Century Challenge
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The historical context gives rise to the
political constraints reformers face …
… and provides the backdrop for deep
ethical inquiry as health care changes.
Big data has emerged as a means for linking clinical and behavioral choices as medicine becomes more targeted …
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Example of 21st Century Challenge
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Health care
Big data has emerged as a means for linking clinical and behavioral choices as medicine becomes more targeted …
… and the arts provide an
enduring forum to explore,
communicate and humanize the issues we
confront.
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Example of 21st Century Challenge
Health care
… and the arts provide an
enduring forum to explore,
communicate and humanize the issues we
confront.
Each discipline can individually make its mark on the health care challenges of our time,
but collaborations across disciplines can create more than the sum of its parts.
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• Among the new ‘big trees’ of connected communities in the interdisciplinary landscape at Duke is one called ‘Education and Human Development, (EHD)
• Themes within EHDEmerging bottom up
EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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The North Carolina in the Global Economy project has existed at
Duke CGGC for many years and is now gaining new momentum as a project within this Education and
Human Development focus.
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•Intersection of Social Science and Medicine
EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (CONT’D)
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An early motivating example …
Guillermo Sapiro is a newly recruited faculty
member in Electrical Engineering. His
expertise is machine learning, particularly in
relation to video.
Helen Egger is head of the Division of Duke Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry.
They both have an interest in the autism spectrum in children but have very different, non-overlapping expertise.
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Different Expertise, Shared interests
Guillermo knows how to use data on what
humans detect to teach machines how to
detect the same thing –perhaps better than
the humans.
Helen has hundreds of hours of video of young
children being screened for autism –which is very hard to
detect in young children -- by skilled
professionals.
They live their professional lives in very different parts of the university, each running their own separate labs.
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Introductions Are made …
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Introductions Are made … and in idea is Born
100’s of videos …
… and machines that learn from video to do it even better than humans
What if we could design a cheap camera that could track eyes and head movements and
identify early indicators of autism?
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Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Begins …
Within weeks of meeting, they integrated their labs and the work began.
They brought undergraduates with different technical skills into their teams.
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“2015 DUKE SSRI”
• At a university such as Duke, where the medical,
engineering and social science communities occupy
significant shared intellectual and physical space,
there is huge potential in exploring the potential
collaborations between these communities.
• SSRI is in a unique position to catalyze that
collaboration.
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Mike Hensen
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