United States of America
Fact sheet
Traumatic brain injury and homelessness
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a type of acquired brain injury that is common among people who experience homelessness. This fact sheet describes some of the common symptoms of TBI, discusses the link between TBI and homelessness, and provides information for frontline workers who deliver services for people experiencing homelessness in the United States.
Report
Academic library strategy and budgeting during the COVID-19 pandemic
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ithaka S+R surveyed library directors nationally to examine the strategic changes libraries have made to continue operating. The responses indicated that as traditional forms of instruction continue to be disrupted, and with their budgets facing ongoing headwinds, library leaders will need to continue making difficult decisions that will impact...
Report
The Senior Research Officer: experience, role, organizational structure, strategic directions, and challenges
The senior research officer is an extremely important position at major research universities, playing a principal leadership role for what is typically a vast research enterprise. To examine the role within these institutions, the authors of this report interviewed 44 incumbents at US research universities during summer and early fall 2020. This report outlines their...
Working paper
Building an ambitious and robust U.S. climate target
The opportunity is now at hand for the United States to build a new, comprehensive and ambitious national climate policy strategy for the nation to re-engage with the international community to address climate globally. This paper sets forth a set of recommended features of a process to create a new national strategy.
Report
The great cyber surrender: how police and governments abandon cybercrime victims
In the most comprehensive transatlantic study of its kind, this report finds that the approach of both police and policymakers to tackling cybercrime is so inadequate that it is tantamount to surrender.