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Social Research Center

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The Social Research Center (SRC) was established in 1953. Over the last five decades, the SRC has been committed to carrying out multidisciplinary research on a broad range of subjects, engaging in capacity building of students and researchers in Egypt and the region, and striving to reach its aims and goals.

The mission of the SRC is to conduct and encourage multidisciplinary social science research in Egypt and the Arab region. The center is engaged in a variety of research projects at both the national and regional levels, and has a distinct reputation for carrying out high-quality field studies and in-depth analytical research. It has also excelled in the area of building social research capacities for students, scholars and organizations engaged in social science research in the region.

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Research Themes 

Researchers of the Center are free to choose research themes that fall within their specific sphere of interest, so long as they adhere to the broad scope of scientifically relevant issues related to the work of the Center. In particular, five thematic directions have received increased emphasis and focus, allowing SRC to become a leading research center in the following program areas.

Gender and Women's Empowerment 

Health inequities and their policy implications 

Poverty and Social Policies

Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)

Agriculture and Rural Development 

Population and Development

For more information about SRC research themes click here

Latest Initiatives

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Healthy Aging in Egypt

Healthy aging in Egypt initiative aims to support Egypt’s efforts in securing the welfare of Egypt's older population and their families and harnessing the potentials of its second demographic dividend through promoting and supporting evidence-based and responsive healthy aging policies. 

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Equity and Social Determinants of Health in Health Information Systems

The project moves the current narrow framing of Health Information System (HIS) into a broader framing that captures the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) as the root cause of inequity in health status.

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Health Equity and Sustainable Development Goals in the Arab Region

A publicly accessible and interactive space that brings together a wide network of researchers, actors and stakeholders pursuing and supporting the Arab region to achieve equity in health and wellbeing, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Bartlett Linkage Initiative

The Bartlett Linkage Initiative was initiated to create an inclusive policy platform where gender policies can be explained, discussed, and debated on a wide scale within different media. The aim of the Initiative is to engage in a dialogue with diverse stakeholders within and outside of the university on how sustainable, intersectional, and adaptive platforms can be achieved.

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Mental Health Initiative
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Data Sets

The SRC has made the data files of its surveys available for use (for legitimate academic research) at no cost with the condition that the SRC receives an abstract or a detailed description of any project for which this data will be used.

Resources Sites

Relevant topical, links and information developed alongside specific project implementation in the past (not regularly updated):

Publications

Nubian Study

The Story of the Nubian Ethnological Survey 1961–1964 Edited by Nicholas Hopkins Sohair Mehanna
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Contact Us

Social Research Center
Research Centers Building, The American University in Cairo
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
Tel 20.2.2615.1413/1414|Fax 20.2.27974926
src@aucegypt.edu