Programs

CASBS is an accelerator of ideas. It facilitates multi-year, interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and collaborative efforts to develop new solutions to major societal challenges.

Our projects and other activities focus on the following challenges:

Building equitable societies
How to craft institutions, organizations, and networks to enhance  societal and individual flourishing 
Technology & society
What to do to mitigate the harmful consequences of digital technology, and to ensure that it serves societal well-being
Rethinking the social sciences  
How to rethink the tools and standards for conducting social science work such that they adequately meet the demands of modern society

Projects

Current Projects

• Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab
• Creating a New Moral Political Economy
• Understanding the iGeneration

Past Projects

• The Future of Work and Workers (2014-18)
• Mindset Scholars Network (2013–17)

Other Activities

• AI Ethics and Governance Map (2019)
• Future of Scholarly Knowledge
• Global Literacy and Neuroscience 
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sexual Violence
• Summer Institutes
• Tech Data and Data Sharing for Social Good
• The Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy
• Workshops
   

For more information, please contact CASBS program directors Federica Carugati (carugati@stanford.edu) and Betsy Rajala (betsy.rajala@stanford.edu).