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Sparti tina Management t Ne Netw twork

Core Actors

Engaging Social Science

Structural Changes Happening in Delta

• Hiring: New Delta Science staff are social scientists
• Advising: Delta Social Science Task Force, Advisory Boards, Committees,

Planning Efforts

• Funding: Write social science into requests for proposals

Appreciating Social Science Culture

• Social science is a “real” science: we have theories, we need money, we

need to publish, we are not a “service bureau”

• Social science is diverse: Not just economics. Qualitative and quantitative
• Social science can “play nice” in interdisciplinary projects