March 2, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 9
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding
Characterizing the Short and Long Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) among Children in the United States
Deadline: March 30, 2012 (letter of intent) 
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting research that will help expand and advance the understanding of how traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts the developmental milestones of children. This research addresses the "Healthy People 2020" focus area(s) of Injury and Violence Prevention. Click here for more information.

 

Alcohol-related Motor Vehicle Injury Research
Deadline: April 2, 2012 (letter of intent)
(Centers for Disease Prevention and Control)
The purpose of this FOA is to evaluate strategies for implementing and disseminating known, effective interventions for reducing alcohol-impaired driving (AID) in the United States and to test the effectiveness of new, innovative strategies to reduce AID in non-occupational settings. Click here for more information. 

 

Childhood Obesity
Deadline: March 30, 2012
(From the ASPH Friday Letter)
The Global Center for Childhood Obesity at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking to fund innovative pilot and feasibility projects that examine environmental mechanisms or policy changes related to the childhood obesity epidemic. Projects should use systems science concepts to tackle issues that will potentially inform the development or confirmation of community- or population-based interventions. The application process is open to investigators in the U.S. and globally. Click here for more information.

 

Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
Deadline: May 1, 2012
The Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan is a joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. The program encourages innovative research that puts these subjects in wider regional and global contexts and is comparative and contemporary in nature. Research should contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of issues of concern to Japan and the United States. Appropriate disciplines for the research include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, political science, psychology, public administration, and sociology. The fellowships are designed for researchers with advanced language skills whose research will require use of data, sources, and documents in their original languages or whose research requires interviews onsite in direct one-on-one contact. Fellows may undertake their projects in Japan, the United States, or both, and may include work in other countries for comparative purposes. Projects may be at any stage of development. Click here for more information. 

 

Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition
Deadline: April 24, 2012
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is interested in funding one research grant to replicate the NIJ-funded study, "Police Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: An Analysis of Crimes Reported to the Los Angeles Police Department, 2006-2008," in 6 to 8 other sites. Sites should cover urban, suburban, and rural areas. Proposals should, to the extent possible, replicate the mixed-methods design and analytic approach found in the final technical report and data documentation files of the aforementioned study. Click here for more information. 

 

Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources
Deadline: May 22, 2012
As part of the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR sciences. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes--but is not limited to--the SBE or EHR sciences. Click here for more information. 

 

Research on the Health of LGBTI Populations
Deadline: May 7, 2015
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committed to supporting research that will increase scientific understanding of the health status of various population groups and improve the effectiveness of health interventions and services for individuals within those groups. High priority is placed on research on populations that appear to have distinctive health risk profiles but have received insufficient attention from investigators. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) highlights a particular community: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and related populations (designated here as LGBTI populations). Basic, social, behavioral, clinical, and services research relevant to the missions of the sponsoring Institutes and Centers may be proposed. Click here for more information. 

 

Research to Prevent Prescription Drug Overdoses
Deadline: April 2, 2012 (letter of intent)
This funding opportunity announcement encourages research that will build the scientific base for the prevention of unintentional poisonings from drug overdoses in the adolescent and adult population (ages 15 to 64 years) in the United States. It solicits proposals from organizations to conduct exploratory/developmental research that evaluates novel approaches to drug overdose prevention and addresses the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)'s research agenda priorities related to unintentional poisoning. It is meant to engage professionals from a wide spectrum of disciplines including epidemiology, community medicine, pharmacology, biostatistics, public policy, public health law, justice, and behavioral and social sciences. Click here for more information. 
 
Youth-Nex Postdoctoral Program 2012
Application review begins March 5; open until filled
The University of Virginia's Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, Youth-Nex, has open positions for up to four (4) incumbents to join the Youth-Nex Postdoctoral Training Program. Youth-Nex is housed within the Curry School of Education and is a cross-University, multidisciplinary center with approximately 25 faculty, associates and affiliates. The Youth-Nex Postdoctoral Training Program focuses upon multi-disciplinary and multi-method training from various University departments, colleges, schools and constituents, including distinguished faculty such as: Patrick Tolan Ph.D., Joseph Allen Ph.D., Art Weltman Ph.D., Nancy Deutsch Ph.D., Daniel Cox Ph.D., Dewey Cornell Ph.D. and Joanna Lee Williams Ph.D. Click here for more information. 
CallsCalls
Call for Abstracts 
International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision 
*Deadline: March 15, 2012 (Extended)*  
The Executive Committee of the Eighth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision at Adelphi University is pleased to invite submissions for presentations which examine clinical supervision theory, research and practice within and across professional disciplines. The goals of the conference reflect the importance of facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue in the transmission of new knowledge, research, and best practices in the field of clinical supervision. Please submit abstracts with empirical, theoretical and applied significance for current issues in clinical supervision. Presentation formats include: Papers, Workshops, Poster Presentation, or Round Table Discussions. Click here for more information.

Call for Proposals
24th Annual Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference
Deadline: March 20, 2012
We invite research projects among a broad spectrum of topics. Employment of traditional ethnographic and qualitative research projects provides the common thread for conference papers. Proposals will be peer-reviewed among three strands: Results of qualitative and ethnographic research studies, qualitative research methods, and pedagogical issues in qualitative research. Click here for more information.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
NATIONAL MULTICULTURAL CONFERENCE AND SUMMIT
Deadline: May 4, 2012
Transforming Multicultural Psychology: Engagement, Renewal, and Action across Generations
The 2013 National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) will convene students, practitioners, and scholars in psychology and related fields to inform and inspire multicultural theory, research, and practice. Multiculturalism is envisioned as inclusive of experiences related to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, indigenous heritage, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, social class and socioeconomic status, and other social identities. We are accepting proposals for symposia, workshops, conversations, difficult dialogues, and posters. Acceptable proposals may address theory, research, practice, education, training, and advocacy/policy issues. All proposals will be peer-reviewed with attention given to a balance of topics, diversity dimensions, emphasis areas, and applied aspects (e.g., psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions). Proposals will be rated in part by how they relate to the conference theme and include the intersection of identities or multiple identities. Proposals for individual papers will not be accepted. Click here for more information.

Call for Proposals
ARNOVA Annual Meeting
Deadline: March 30, 2012
RE-EXAMINING PHILANTHROPY: EXPLORING ROOT CONCEPTS FOR OUR FIELD(S)
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)'s meeting site this year at the home of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy provides an ideal setting to explore afresh the larger question of what is philanthropy, and how do we encourage a broad and diverse approach to understanding philanthropy in theory and in practice? Some would argue that "philanthropy" is both a core and an overarching concept for the fields of study ARNOVA embraces. Robert Payton's definition of philanthropy as "voluntary action for the common good" is contested, but has long been cited to describe such a view. Others would argue the concept of philanthropy is archaic. In recent years it has often been reduced to a synonym for giving, especially organized or institutional giving. Nevertheless, some vision of or connection to philanthropy underpins all that we study in examining nonprofit organizations and voluntary action. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction 
April 3-5, 2012 
College Park, MD 
The SBP conference is the result of merging two successful international conferences on closely related subjects: 
*International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP) 
*International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD)  
The combined conference retains the acronym SBP, with "Behavioral" replaced by "Behavioral-Cultural". Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior within a social context. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario planning. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., "cells to societies") and cross disparate disciplines. Click here for more information.
 
FRAGILE FAMILIES WORKSHOP 2012
July 11-13, 2012 
New York, NY 
(Deadline to apply: March 18, 2012) 
The Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop, funded by the National Institutes of Health and sponsored by the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC), will be held July 11-13, 2012, at Columbia University in New York City. Targeted toward early career scholars from various social and biomedical science disciplines, including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, the workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS), one of the leading sources of information on contemporary urban families with children. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata
New Data from ICPSR
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: 
*29654 Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (HEPESE) Wave 6, 2006-2007 [Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas]
*33021 Transatlantic Trends Survey, 2010
*33206 CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Monthly Poll #2, November 2010
*33441 Census of Population and Housing, 2010 [United States]: Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File
*33442 Census of Population and Housing, 2010 [United States]: National Summary File of Redistricting Data
*33443 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008: Biomarker Data [Restricted Use] 
Click here for more information and more datasets.

 

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in February 
*The Art and Science of Managing and Summarizing the Available Research (Chapter 4 in Finding and Evaluating Evidence: Systematic Reviews and Evidence-Based Practice): Bronson, Denise E.;Davis, Tamara S.  
*Implementation Decision Guide for Child Welfare.  
*Development of the Task-Centered Model (Chapter 2 of From Task-Centered Social Work to Evidence-Based and Integrative Practice: Reflections on History and Implementation): Fortune, Anne E.  
*Analyzing State Differences in Child Well-Being: O'Hare, William.;Mather, Mark.;Dupuis, Genevieve.  
*Presenting Your Information Effectively (Chapter 7 of Advocacy Practice for Social Justice): Hoefer, Richard.  
Click here for more information.
Child Welfare Information Gateway 
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in February 
*The Art and Science of Managing and Summarizing the Available Research (Chapter 4 in Finding and Evaluating Evidence: Systematic Reviews and Evidence-Based Practice): Bronson, Denise E.;Davis, Tamara S.  
*Implementation Decision Guide for Child Welfare.  
*Development of the Task-Centered Model (Chapter 2 of From Task-Centered Social Work to Evidence-Based and Integrative Practice: Reflections on History and Implementation): Fortune, Anne E.  
*Analyzing State Differences in Child Well-Being: O'Hare, William.;Mather, Mark.;Dupuis, Genevieve.  
*Presenting Your Information Effectively (Chapter 7 of Advocacy Practice for Social Justice): Hoefer, Richard.  
Click here for more information.

 

Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
The Inter-university Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is pleased to announce the release of the fifth edition of the "Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving," with new and updated information on data management plans, video files, respondent disclosure protection, and virtual data enclaves. For the first time, we have developed a Web-based version of the Guide, providing a quicker and more efficient way to search and browse the material. A PDF version is also available. 
News & Noticesnews 
NICHD Invites Comments on Proposed Reorganization 
After undertaking the Vision Process last year to help identify scientific opportunities for the coming decade, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Director Alan Guttmacher announced at the January Advisory Council meeting that he would also like to streamline the organization of the institute itself. Under the proposed reorganization, seven of the current ten extramural research branches would be renamed to more clearly identify for the research community what research the branch funds and two additional branches are proposed to be added. One of the new branches will focus on pediatric injury prevention and critical care, in recognition that childhood injuries are the leading cause of childhood mortality. Notably, the Child Development and Behavior branch and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities branches would remain unchanged, while the Demographic and Behavioral Science Branch would be changed to the Demography and Population Sciences Branch. Under the proposed reorganization, no research portfolios or research programs have been moved or eliminated, although there will be a review at the staff level to determine if adjustments in portfolios are needed. Comments on the proposed reorganization can be sent to NICHD at: NICHDDirectorsOffice@mail.nih.gov.
 
Request for Information (RFI): A Call to Identify Key Methodological Roadblocks and Propose New Paradigms in Suicide Prevention Research
Response Date: April 27, 2012 
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) are seeking input to identify the types of research tools needed to support rapid advancement in suicide prevention research. Specifically, this request asks interested parties to provide input on the following topics: a) the key methodological roadblocks that currently exist in suicide prevention research, and b) new paradigms and theoretical models with the potential to spark innovative research. A methodological roadblock is defined as a critical, unresolved challenge that is clearly limiting progress along an important suicide prevention research pathway. New research paradigms and theoretical models are novel ways of thinking about suicidal behavior and avenues for its prevention. This Request for Information (RFI) is issued as an invitation to interested parties to contribute these specific methodological challenges and new conceptual paradigms for inclusion in a compendium of ways to facilitate suicide prevention research progress. Click here
for more information. 
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