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December 23, 2011 || Vol. 3, Issue 51
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Happy Holidays!
SWRnet will take next week off and be back in 2012. Enjoy your holiday!
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Funding Opportunities
Maternal Nutrition and Pre-pregnancy Obesity: Effects on Mothers, Infants and Children (R01)
Deadline: January 27, 2015
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Nursing Research encourages R01 applications to improve health outcomes for women, infants and children, by stimulating interdisciplinary research focused on maternal nutrition and pre-pregnancy obesity. Maternal health significantly impacts not only the mother but also the intrauterine environment, and subsequently fetal development and the health of the newborn. Click here for more information.
Conducting Public Health Research in China
Deadline: February 7, 2012 (Letter of Intent)
The purpose of the program is to fulfill three broad goals: (1) To conduct high quality research around influenza, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, and other public health problems; (2) To strengthen China CDC's institutional capacity to conduct research, plan, implement and evaluate public health programs; and (3) To incorporate and promote the results of research into operational disease prevention and control programs. Click here for more information.
Fostering Desistance through Effective Supervision
Deadline: February 23, 2012
This Demonstration Field Experiment (DFE) will address an offender's motivation to change as well as criminal thinking, two areas that we need more scientific information. Specifically, this DFE will focus on techniques to improve offender's motivation to change and strategies to alter criminal thinking using a desistance approach. It will answer critical questions about the impact of providing criminal thinking to alter offender outcomes. This multi-site DFE will also provide a rigorous test of a specific reentry model intended to improve offender outcomes post-release. Some of the outcomes of interest include, but are not limited to, re-offending and reincarceration (recidivism). Click here for more information.
Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence Related Injury
Deadline: March 16, 2012
The purposes of the NCIPC extramural violence prevention research program are to: *Build the scientific base for the prevention of violence by helping to expand and advance our understanding of the primary prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence. *Encourage professionals from a wide spectrum of disciplines of epidemiology, behavioral and social sciences, medicine, biostatistics, public health, health economics, law, and criminal justice to perform research in order to prevent violence more effectively. *Encourage investigators to propose research that involves the development and testing of primary prevention strategies as well as research on methods to enhance the adoption and maintenance of effective strategies among individuals, organizations, or communities. NCIPC is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will expand and advance the understanding of how best to disseminate and implement evidence-based strategies, programs, and policies. NCIPC is also soliciting research in areas where less is known about what works to prevent violence such as teen dating violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and suicidal behavior. Click here for more information.
Identifying Modifiable Protective Factors for Intimate Partner Violence or Sexual Violence Prevention
Deadline: March 16, 2012
The purpose of this announcement is to support new research or an extension to existing research that identifies modifiable protective factors for IPV and/or SV perpetration that can be leveraged to improve primary prevention efforts, and empirically tests the extent to which these factors are associated with IPV or SV perpetration. Click here for more information.
Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health (General Population)
Deadline: January 27, 2012
The purpose of this program is to address significant disparities in Perinatal health including disparities experienced by Hispanics, American Indians, African-Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and immigrant populations. Differences in perinatal health indicators may occur by virtue of education, age of mother, income, disability, or living in rural/isolated areas. To address disparities and the factors contributing to them in these indicators, it is anticipated that the proposed scope of project services will cover the pregnancy and interconception phases for women and infants residing in the proposed project area. In order to promote longer interconception periods and prevent relapses of risk behaviors, the woman and infant are to be followed through the infant's second year of life and/or two years following delivery. Click here for more information.
State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers
Deadline: February 6, 2012
The SJS Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through the collection and analysis of data. The program provides limited funds to coordinate statistical activities within the state, conduct research to estimate the impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve as a liaison role to assist BJS with gathering data from respondent agencies in their states. Each application for funding under this program must specify the participating organizations in the state and the particular issues to be addressed. Each year, BJS announces specific topics for analysis and encourages applicants to give careful consideration to planning activities that fit within one or more of the designated topics (see section SJS Program Themes). If a SAC does not feel that any of the topics are relevant to its state, then it may identify a topic or statistical activity of critical importance to its jurisdiction. Click here for more information.
Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)
Deadline: January 15, 2012
DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as citizens. Click here for more information.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Law Research Program Invites Letters of Intent for Rapid Response Grants
Deadline: December 29, 2011 (Letters of Intent)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to build evidence for and strengthen the use of regulatory legal and policy solutions to improve public health. RWJF is equally interested in identifying and ameliorating laws and legal practices that unintentionally harm health. As public health practitioners, policy makers, and others consider how laws influence the public's health, they need evidence to inform questions such as: How does law influence health and health behavior? Which laws have the greatest impact? Can current laws be made more effective through better enforcement, or do they require amendment? The purpose of RWJF's Public Health Law Research program is to answer such questions by building a field of research and practice in public health law. The PHLR program is accepting applications for Rapid-Response Evaluations awards of up to $100,000 for a period of up to twelve months to support time-sensitive and opportunistic studies on emerging or anticipated changes in public health laws. These studies must produce nonpartisan analysis to inform policy debates or add to the public health law research evidence base. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Abstracts
Academic Public Health Caucus
Deadline: February 7, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Academic Public Health Caucus is now accepting abstracts for oral and poster session formats for the 140th APHA Annual Meeting. The caucus provides a forum to showcase and learn about innovations and excellence in education, training, and academic research not only from public health academicians, but also from practitioners within public health institutions that administer or participate in academic/practice partnerships. The deadline for submission for the Academic Public Health Caucus is February 7, 2012. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
2012 Annual Healthy Cities Conference
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Fifth Healthy Cities: Working Together to Achieve Liveable Cities Conference will be a platform for government and industry sector professionals to discuss causes, effects and solutions that relate to population health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change, urban design and more. It will be held June 6-8, 2012 in Geelong, Victoria. Authors or organizations interested in submitting a paper or presenting a workshop are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words outlining the aims, contents and conclusions of their paper or presentation; or about their intended role in a workshop. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
24th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work
Deadline: January 27, 2012
The College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 24th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work to be held on April 20 on the campus of The Ohio State University. A well-known social work scholar will deliver the keynote address pertaining to the College's year long focus on "Seek Justice". The symposium showcases dissertation research of recent Ph.D. recipients. Dissertations completed between May 201 and December 2011 are eligible for consideration and selected presenters will receive a $250 honorarium. Click here for more information and submission guidelines.
Call for Submissions
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work
Deadline: September 30, 2012
The Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work is inviting submissions for the "Special Issue: Culturally Informed Social Work Interventions, Programs, Practice, and Policy." Conventional social work theories, practice, and programs are mainly developed based on Eurocentric values and experiences. Globalization and migration across different countries, however, offer beneficial opportunities for the social work profession to learn from different cultures, traditions, and practices. For instance, mindfulness practice and yoga have been increasingly utilized in different mental health and health settings for diverse problems. In this special issue, we hope to provide a forum for social work researchers, scholars, and practitioners to exchange research and practice of integrating knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures into social work interventions, programs, practice, and policy. This Special Issue welcomes all articles related to the following topics:
· Research on social work interventions, programs, practice, and policy that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
· Social work interventions that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
· Social work programs that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
· Social work policies that utilize knowledge, practices, and traditions from diverse cultures
In the e-mail subject line, the author(s) should indicate that this is a submission to the Special issues: Culturally Informed Social Work Interventions, Programs, Practice, & Policy. Please submit an electronic version of the manuscript to:
Mo Yee Lee, PhD
Editor, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
College of Social Work
The Ohio State University
340A Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
Columbus, OH43210
E-mail: lee.355@osu.edu
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Conferences & Trainings
Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities
Deadline: January 17, 2012
(From the Black Social Workers Listserv)
The CAPS Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities is designed to assist investigators already conducting HIV-prevention research with ethnic minority communities to improve their programs of research and obtain additional funding for their work. The goals of the program are:
* To increase the quantity and quality of HIV prevention research targeting vulnerable ethnic minority populations.
* To develop theory-based, culture-specific research methods for effective HIV prevention interventions.
* To increase the number of minority group members among principal investigators funded by the NIH, CDC and other agencies.
The Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/STI Health Disparities program is designed for scientists in tenure-track positions or investigators in research institutes who have not yet obtained RO1 funding from the NIH or equivalent funding from another agency. We seek scientists conducting theory-driven, culturally specific HIV prevention research with minority communities. Click here for more information. AERA Faculty Institute for the Teaching of Statistics with Large-Scale Data Sets
Deadline: January 17, 2012
With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the AERA Grants Program announces the AERA Faculty Institute for the Teaching of Statistics with Large-Scale Data Sets. The Faculty Institute's goal is to help develop a critical mass of U.S. education researchers at doctoral granting institutions using large-scale federal data sets, especially those sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies. These data sets, which are often longitudinal and nationally representative, offer an excellent opportunity for students and early career scholars to conduct research and learn advanced quantitative methods with high quality policy-relevant data. Secondary data analysis of federal data sets provides one of the most opportune and cost-effective ways of generating knowledge and contributing to policy deliberations based on large numbers of individuals and observations. This Institute aims to "train the trainers," enabling more education researchers to take advantage of these rich data resources. Historically underrepresented minority faculty are strongly encouraged to apply. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
ICPSR Additions
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community. Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive:
*22540 Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: State Legislative District Summary File, Sample
*32241 Current Population Survey, December 2010: Food Security Supplement
*32341 Current Population Survey, November 2010: Civic Engagement Supplement
Click here for access to these datasets and more information.
FILLING THE HEALTH EQUITY GAP (From the Population Council)
Voucher programs deliver where social health insurance schemes may not. Despite the universal goals of national health insurance schemes, the poorest of the poor can be the last enrolled in such schemes, resulting in unequal access to health care services. Health voucher programs strive to improve equity by providing financial access to the most disenfranchised populations and filling the gaps in established social protection schemes. In this article, we examine how health voucher programs can address challenges in ensuring equity and discuss the strengths and weaknesses in a current voucher program in Kenya that is providing poor women with access to safe motherhood and family planning services. Click here to read more.
The Benefits of High-Quality, Out-of-School Programs for Children of Latino Immigrants
(From ChildTrends)
Studies have found that most children and youth benefit from involvement in out-of-school (OST) time programs; however, minority children, and children of immigrants in particular, tend not to participate. Child Trends' new Research-to- Results brief, Children of Latino Immigrants and Out-of-School Time Programs, describes risk factors that contribute to low participation rates for children of immigrants, and discusses what these programs can do to help improve outcomes. In addition, the brief provides tips for attracting and retaining children of immigrant families in OST programs. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
SWRnet will be back on Friday, January 6, 2012. Thank you for all your support this year.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
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About SWRnet
Formerly known as the IASWR Listserv, SWRnet (Social Work Research Network) was launched in October 2009 to continue serving the social work research community by providing regular updates on funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines and newly published research. Help others subscribe by forwarding these announcements using the Forward to a Colleague function at the end of the email. |
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