Updates from SPARQ

We’re hiring! SPARQ is looking to bring on board 1-2 Research Scientists to join our team.

SPARQ and impact investment firm Illumen Capital partnered to explore the factors that drive racial disparities in investing.

SPARQ co-director Jennifer Eberhardt is on the road, making appearances at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Here are some of her recent features.

The Biased book tour continues around the U.S. and also crosses the Atlantic. Check out some of Jennifer Eberhardt's latest talks at the RSA, JCC San Francisco, and more.

Join us in celebrating the publication of Biased! The event will feature a reading by Dr. Eberhardt and a Q&A with Oakland Police Department Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong.

The Biased book tour is in full swing as SPARQ Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt travels across the country sharing her work. Here are some highlights from last week.

Jennifer Eberhardt kicks off her book tour for Biased this week. Here is a wrap up of early media highlights including features in the LA Times, CBS This Morning, and Forbes.

SPARQ Faculty Affiliates joined a team from Nextdoor for a Research Clinic to discuss strategies for keeping conversations on the platform neighborly.

Edgy Veggies & Rethinking Stress, which aim to promote healthier eating and improve people's management of stress, are two new toolkits from SPARQtools that focus on health issues.

SPARQ's diversity and inclusion collection of toolkits is just one resource among many that aim to help higher education institutions and other organizations become more inclusive.

In a new paper, SPARQ director Jennifer Eberhardt and research scientist Rebecca Hetey warn that sharing facts about inequality may make it worse unless you include context.

As a SPARQ summer intern, you will gain valuable research experience while exploring how to use psychological science for social change.

In collaboration with the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty and the Urban Institute, SPARQ assembles a set of measures to holistically assess people’s passage out of poverty.

New Stanford research in The New York Times makes it harder than ever for the U.S. to avoid confronting the role of racism in economic inequality, particularly for Black men.

In the past 10 years, the Center for Employment Opportunities has placed more than 25,000 formerly incarcerated people into full-time jobs around the country.

SPARQ's director of health, Alia Crum, explained the origins of mindsets and their effect on people's physical health in her talk.