Frequently Asked Questions – Call for Collaborators
In this page you can find a series of FAQs related to the Call for Collaborators of the Global Crises Project.
Please not that this page may be updated over time. Please check the “last updated” date before relying on any specific details.
The information below is preliminary and subject to change as the project develops.
The collaborator agreement, signed at the second recruitment stage, will define final, binding information about roles, responsibilities, and contributions.
If you cannot find the answer to your question among the ones below, please write to us at global_crises[at]uj.edu.pl.
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Collaborators’ Eligibility Requirements
Researchers at any career stage, from PhD students to full professors, are welcome to participate as collaborators. Collaborators are expected to be affiliated with an academic or research institution when signing up — this includes independent researchers with a formal institutional affiliation and researchers based in non-university research centres.
We welcome collaborators with a background in any area relevant to the study of crisis perception and motivation to act. This includes, but is not limited to, social psychology, political psychology, sociology, cross-cultural psychology, behavioral economics, political science, psychometrics, data analysis, data science, and metascience. We deliberately keep this list broad: different areas of expertise support different aspects of the project, from measure validation and data analysis to interpreting country-level institutional and cultural factors. You will be able to indicate your main area of research in the expression of interest form.
Participation in this project is collaborator-based, not lab-based: each person who wishes to contribute must submit their own individual expression of interest, and, if selected, sign their own collaborator agreement. A PI/Lab Leader cannot register on behalf of other lab members; each must apply separately if they wish to participate. In the expression of interest form, you can indicate whether you are applying with colleagues from your institution, which helps us understand your local context, but this does not automatically register those colleagues’ interest in joining as collaborators: each will still need to submit their own expression of interest to be considered.
PSA membership is not a prerequisite, so you do not need to already be a PSA member to participate. That said, this project will be run through the PSA network and infrastructure, so we recommend registering as a PSA member if you are not already one, at https://psysciacc.org/join.html.
Beyond this project, PSA membership gives you access to a global network of researchers and the opportunity to join other large-scale, many-labs initiatives like this one. We also recommend subscribing to the PSA newsletter at https://psysciacc.org/news.html to stay updated on other initiatives across the network.
Researchers who are already registered PSA members are, of course, equally welcome to join.
Collaborators’ Recruitment and Selection Process
We will recruit collaborators in two stages. After the initial expression of interest, we will review applicants’ geographic distribution to balance the number of collaborators per country. This also gives us the opportunity to make a further, targeted recruitment effort for countries that did not receive any expressions of interest in the first round.
We will contact prospective collaborators by December 2026 for the second stage, in which selected teams will sign collaborator agreements (expected in early 2027), and researchers will formally join the team.
Where applications from a single country exceed a Country Team’s capacity, we will prioritize a balance of career stages, methodological expertise, and geographic representation within that country. For example, applicants who expressed their availability to contribute to more than one country may be asked to focus their contribution on the country where their involvement is most needed (i.e., the one with fewer applicants).
The form asks for the following:
- name and surname, contact details, and ORCiD number (optional);
- institutional affiliation and country; nationality and native language(s), plus any other languages you can work in professionally; your current career stage;
- whether you are already a PSA member and, if so, your PSA ID and any other PSA projects you have been involved in;
- whether you have prior experience with many-labs or large-scale team science initiatives outside PSA;
- the country/countries and role(s) you are interested in contributing to, including your availability to serve as Country Lead and your estimated monthly time commitment;
- whether your institution has a local ethics committee and whether it would require ethics approval for this study;
- whether you would be able to contribute financially to data collection costs; your main area of research and relevant substantive expertise;
- keywords describing your research interests;
- how you heard about this project;
- whether you are applying together with colleagues from your institution.
Having your ORCiD number and PSA ID (if applicable) at hand can make the form quicker to complete.
If you are a registered PSA member but are not sure what your PSA ID is, you can find it as follows: go to Canvas, click on any project or membership area, click on “People” in the left-hand menu, and search for your name. Your PSA ID is listed in the column labeled SIS_ID.
Study Design and Data Collection
For each participating country, we ask Country Teams to collect at least 500 participants (ideally 1,000), representative of the national population by age, gender, and education. The survey will take between 15 and 20 minutes.
Our primary approach is to recruit through online panels to reach a nationally representative sample. Where a fully representative panel-based sample is not achievable, we will still prioritize panel-based recruitment, accepting a lower degree of representativeness. Only when panel-based recruitment is not feasible at all will we consider recruiting through local or university networks, potentially with a smaller sample size.
The survey will be administered online and will include a range of measures assessing perceptions, attitudes, and intentions related to global crises. Most items use Likert-type scales and rating formats. The survey will also include some ranking tasks and behavioral tasks, followed by a set of attention-check items and standard demographic questions.
Yes, optionally. Country teams may use an open slot (approximately 5 minutes) at the end of the survey to incorporate additional questions of their own and/or proposed by collaborators. Teams that do not wish to add measures can simply leave the slot unused. Any additional measures must be agreed upon by all members of the Country Team before being included. Country teams also have the option to run these measures in more than one country, upon agreement with other country teams.
Data collection will be centralized: all data will be collected through a single online survey platform managed by the core team, ensuring a consistent format and comparability across countries. The only exception is when local laboratories or recruitment partners cannot rely on the online format because of infrastructural or contextual constraints. In these cases, paper-and-pencil questionnaires may be used instead, this will be agreed with the core team and defined in the collaborators’ agreement. In these cases, the local Country Team will be responsible for securely storing the physical materials and entering the responses into the electronic dataset before submission.
Roles and Time Commitment
Below is an overview of the roles described in the call, along with a rough indication of the expected time commitment. Actual time commitment may vary by local context and will be discussed as part of the collaborator agreement.
- Country Lead: primary point of contact for your country and coordinator of local activities; approximately 40–60 hours across the project.
- Country Ethics Coordinator: manages ethics approval at your local institution or national level; time commitment is highly variable and depends on the specific requirements of the local institution and national ethics review process.
- Translator: translates and/or back-translates study materials into your local language; approximately 20–30 hours across the project.
- Cultural Adaptation Reviewer: reviews study materials to ensure they are appropriately adapted to your country/region’s cultural context; approximately 20–30 hours across the project.
Please note that these figures cover the specific tasks associated with each role only. They do not include the time required for data collection itself, for reviewing study materials and manuscripts, or for other forms of input described elsewhere in the call for interest and related FAQs. Actual time commitment across the project should therefore be higher than the figures above suggest.
In some countries, roles beyond those listed above may also be introduced based on specific local needs. For example, in countries where online panel recruitment is not feasible, we may introduce Field Coordinator(s), responsible for organizing in-person or paper-and-pencil data collection, including participant recruitment, survey administration, and secure data entry into the central dataset.
Not necessarily. The role(s) you select in the expression of interest reflect your preference and availability, but final role assignment will take into account the overall composition of your Country Team and the needs of the project, and will be confirmed during the second recruitment stage. For example, if a Country Team has no one interested in the Country Lead role, we may ask a collaborator on the team whether they would be willing to take it on; conversely, if a Country Team has several Translators but no Cultural Adaptation Reviewer, we may ask collaborators to consider shifting roles to ensure the team is balanced.
Expert surveys are short surveys designed to collect information that a general population sample cannot provide. Collaborators can contribute to these surveys in two ways. In some cases, collaborators contribute directly, drawing on their expertise as researchers (for example, by participating in a forecasting survey on expected effect sizes or by identifying relevant country-specific cases in the research literature or national media). In other cases, the needed information may fall outside a collaborator’s expertise (for example, information on countries’ legal frameworks, existing national action plans related to the topic, or previous instances in which a country had to deal with the crises under study); therefore, collaborators are not expected to answer those questions themselves. Their task will be to identify and recruit a suitably qualified expert who can provide that information. Which of these applies will depend on the specific topic and will be clarified as these surveys are defined in more detail.
Project Timeline
The project will proceed according to the following schedule:
- September 2026 – November 2026: First expression of interest call; multi-country pilot study; Registered Report Stage 1 draft preparation.
- December 2026: Prospective collaborators are contacted for the second stage of the call; Registered Report Stage 1 draft ready.
- January 2027: Collaborator agreements are signed, and researchers formally join the team.
- Early 2027 (following the collaborator agreements): Submission of the Registered Report Stage 1.
- Second half of 2027: Data collection, pending in-principle acceptance (IPA) of the Registered Report Stage 1.
Please note, however, that this timeline is highly indicative and may be subject to change, as the project moves on.
Because the main outcome of the project will be a Registered Report, the study design, hypotheses, and analysis plan will be peer-reviewed and likely receive in-principle acceptance (IPA) from the journal before data collection begins. This means data collection cannot start before the Registered Report Stage 1 has received IPA. Based on the timeline above, we expect this to happen in the second half of 2027, though the exact date will depend on the outcome and duration of the peer review process.
Funding for Data Collection
Yes, we warmly encourage collaborators to help fund data collection in additional locations beyond their own country. We are especially keen to extend coverage to low- and middle-income countries where it might be more difficult to fund panel-based data collection. If your budget has room, supporting data collection in one additional country would be a particularly valuable contribution.
However, financial contributions alone do not qualify for authorship: they must be accompanied by an intellectual or operational contribution in one of the roles specified in the call.
Please contact us at global_crises[at]uj.edu.pl. We have allocated a budget to support data collection for researchers from historically underrepresented or lower-resourced regions, and we strongly encourage prospective collaborators from these contexts to apply. Lack of funding is not a barrier to participation.
Authorship and Recognition of Contributions
The collaborator agreement, signed at the second recruitment stage, will formally define roles and contributions. Recognition of individual contributions will be based on the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system, a standardized framework for documenting the specific type of contribution each collaborator has made to the project. Some CRediT categories will apply to all collaborators, reflecting responsibilities shared across the team (i.e., Writing – Review & Editing, given that all collaborators are expected to review the final manuscript). Other categories will depend on the specific role a collaborator takes on (i.e., Translators may be credited for Resources, while Country Leads may be credited for Project Administration or Supervision). These are illustrative examples only; the specific CRediT categories associated with each role will be clarified in the formal collaborator agreement.
No, financial contributions alone do not qualify for authorship and must be accompanied by a substantive intellectual contribution in one or more of the collaborator roles. A researcher who only funds data collection, without taking on any of these roles or contributing to the research with substantive input, will be acknowledged for their financial contribution but will not meet the authorship criteria for the primary publications. The collaborator agreement signed at the second recruitment stage will detail the specific authorship criteria and how they apply to this project.
All doubts are set?
To join the project, please submit your expression of interest by October 31st, 2026, by filling in the following form