The Social Scientist's Grant Guide

Keri K. Stephens is professor of organizational communication and technology, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and co-director of the Technology & Information Policy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. For over 20 years her interdisciplinary research has brought together different strands of communication inquiry: i.e., mobile and AI technologies, organizations, crisis/disasters, and health. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications appearing in prestigious research journals, proceedings, and books and her two most recent books (Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication and New Media in Times of Crisis) have won three national-level awards. Her research has garnered over $10 million USD in external funding including 12 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants, 12 State Grants, and industry and foundation funding. She has given over 30 international and US-based keynote talks, a TEDxTalk, and her community-engaged work has received national and state awards.

Kerk F. Kee is the Hutcheson Endowed Professor in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University, USA. He is a communication researcher and an interdisciplinary social scientist of innovation diffusion. His research examines the adoption of big data technologies in science organizations, dissemination of health information in cultural communities, and the spread of pro-environmental attitude in modern societies. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/ Gulf Research Program, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, totaling over US$13 million to date. He received a prestigious NSF CAREER grant (2015), awarded by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under NSF's Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate. He has published about 70 peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles, proceeding papers, book chapters, and a book. His research has been cited over 7,500 times according to Google Scholar in January 2024.