October 5, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 40
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding   
Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS)
Deadline: January 23, 2013
This is a new solicitation for a new competition. Following are important points that distinguish the Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) competition from other competitions. IBSS emphasizes the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. There are two types of projects that may be supported by IBSS:
-IBSS Large Interdisciplinary Research Projects (with maximum award sizes of $1,000,000)
-IBSS Interdisciplinary Team Exploratory Projects (with maximum award sizes of $250,000)
In addition to the standing NSF merit review criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts, proposals submitted for the IBSS competition will be evaluated using special review criteria with respect to three different dimensions of their interdisciplinarity: the interdisciplinarity of the research team, the interdisciplinarity of the research approaches to be used, and the interdisciplinarity of the expected intellectual significance of the research results. Click here for more information.

 

American Federation for Aging Research
Deadline: December 17, 2012
The American Federation for Aging Research annually provides Research Grants to junior faculty (M.D.s and Ph.D.s) to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts. AFAR-supported investigators study a broad range of biomedical and clinical topics including the causes of cellular senescence, the role of estrogen in the development of osteoporosis, the effects of nutrition and exercise on the aging process, and much more. The major goal of this program is to assist in the development of the careers of junior investigators committed to pursuing careers in the field of aging research. AFAR supports research projects concerned with understanding the basic mechanisms of aging. Projects investigating age-related diseases are also supported, especially if approached from the point of view of how basic aging processes may lead to these outcomes. Projects concerning mechanisms underlying common geriatric functional disorders are also encouraged, as long as these include connections to fundamental problems in the biology of aging. Projects that deal strictly with clinical problems such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease, health outcomes, or the social context of aging are not eligible. Click here to read more. 
 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program
Deadline: November 14, 2012
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program is designed to provide a comprehensive fellowship experience at the nexus of health science, policy, and politics in Washington, D.C. The program provides an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and healthcare policy. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care, and health policy. Exceptional candidates from academic faculties and nonprofit healthcare organizations are encouraged to apply. Applicants may have backgrounds in the disciplines of allied health professions, biomedical sciences, dentistry, economics or other social sciences, health services organization and administration, medicine, nursing, public health, social and behavioral health, or health law. Click here for more information. 

 

Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies
Deadline: varies
A program of the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, the Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies seeks to maintain the vitality of China studies in the United States through fellowships and grants primarily for scholars early in their careers. The program offers three competitions:
1) Pre-dissertation Grants for Research in China (Deadline: November 15, 2012.)
2) Postdoctoral Fellowships (Deadline: November 15, 2012.)
3) Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants (Deadline: January 14, 2013.)
Click here for more information. 
CallsCalls    
Call for Presentations
43rd National Council Mental Health and Addictions Conference
Deadline: October 15, 2012
The Call for Presentations for the 43rd National Council Mental Health and Addictions Conference is open. The premier training event in behavioral healthcare, the National Council Conference draws more than 3,000 mental health and addictions stakeholders that expect high quality educational sessions that showcase real-world applications and new trends and opportunities. The submission deadline is Monday, October 15, 2012. We accept proposals for workshops, lunch 'n' learns, poster sessions, films, or other options like "Ask an Expert" sessions. A limited number of proposals that are exceptional in content will be considered for inclusion in the 2013 conference program. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Abstracts
8th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision
Deadline: February 1, 2013
The Executive Committee of the Eighth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision is pleased to invite submissions for presentations which examine clinical supervision theory, research and practice within and across professional disciplines. Click here for more information. 

 

Call for Proposals
25th Annual Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work
Deadline: December 31, 2012
The College of Social Work and the Doctoral Student Organization (DSO) at The Ohio State University invites recent Ph.D. and D.S.W. recipients in social work to submit abstracts describing their dissertation research for the 25th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work held March 28, 2013, in the Ohio Union on the Ohio State University campus. As part of the College's year long focus, the theme for this year's symposium keynote address will be "Be the Change." Dissertations completed between May 2011 and December 2012 are eligible for consideration. The authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to present their research at the Symposium, where a renowned researcher and scholar will deliver the keynote address. Presenters will receive a $250 honorarium, and their abstracts as well as the keynote address, will be posted (an electronic Proceedings) on The Ohio State University's University Libraries' Knowledge Bank under the community, National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work. This will provide a permanent URL for citation purposes. Click here for more information. 

 

Call for Proposals
16th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference
Deadline: November 9, 2012
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) invites proposals for individual presentations and for entire conference sessions. Proposals will be considered based on:
-Relevance to welfare and family self-sufficiency policy or program design and administration
-Methodological rigor, especially through the use of experimental designs
-Innovative approaches or new contributions to the field
-Clarity of description
There is a strong preference for presentations that showcase recent findings in empirical research, particularly research based on rigorous, experimental designs, although discussions of work in progress will not be automatically excluded. Presentations that combine research findings with input from State and local practitioners are especially welcome. OPRE may request a draft presentation or paper prior to making a final decision. Click here for more information. 

 

Call for Nominations
Qualitative Book Award
Deadline: November 15, 2012
This award will be conferred annually to a member of the qualitative and ethnographic community who has published the English-language book that best represents an important contribution to qualitative inquiry. This year ICQI is dedicating the 2013 qualitative book award to the memory of H. L. (Bud) Goodall, a charter member of the awards committee judges. Eligible books should not be edited books, or anthologies. They should be single or co-authored. They will use and advance qualitative methods to investigate any topic or aspect of qualitative inquiry and may involve research reports, interpretations, and analyses. Applications for the award will be judged by criteria that signify a major contribution to the study and practice of qualitative approaches. Such criteria may include success in experimenting with new or traditional writing forms, inclusion of critical reflections on the writing and research process, contributions to living meaningful lives, and insights into creating a socially just world. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2013. To be eligible for the 2013 award, the book should have a publication date between 2011 and 2013. Nominators are expected to arrange for copies of the book to be mailed, on request, to the three-judge panel. Send nominating letters describing the contributions of the book to qualitative inquiry by post or e-mail no later than 15 November, 2012. Send to the chair of the committee:
Judith Preissle
Qualitative Research Program
River's Crossing 303, University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602-4811 U.S.A.
[email protected] 

 

Call for Papers
Journal for Research on Adolescence
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Special Issue: Youth Gangs and Adolescent Development: New Findings, New Challenges, and New Directions
The wealth of data on youth gangs available from law enforcement and juvenile justice research is particularly striking in comparison to the relatively small empirical and theoretical developmental literature on youth gangs. Indeed, despite the vast literature on the development of aggressive and antisocial behavior more generally, only a handful of published studies have addressed critical developmental issues on youth gang involvement. For example, we know that gang membership is linked to elevated involvement in violent behavior as well as violent victimization; that joining a gang accelerates entry in delinquent behavior; and that gang involvement is linked to a number of factors in the peer, neighborhood, and family environments. But much remains to be explored, especially with respect to how developmental theory on adolescence can inform our understanding of the personal and contextual determinants and consequences of gang involvement. Click here to read more. 
 
Call for Papers
Qualitative Social Work
Deadline: March 1, 2013
You are invited to submit a paper to Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice for a special issue on "Ethnography-Practice and Theory in Social Work Research". For ontological and epistemological reasons, ethnography is a research methodology that has proven to be especially important to social work. Regarding ontology, our clients, communities, and organizations exist in real-time and in open systems where social worker and client must face each other and therefore, much of what matters to our constituents is how we come to know them in their natural settings. By examining social work practice in "real world" settings, ethnographic methods can produce empirically and theoretically rich studies of complex social problems, shed light on contradictions in social policy, attend to change across multiple scales of human action, and assist in the process of translating between research and practice. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
GIRLS FIRST! Perspectives on Girl-Centered Programming
October 12, 2012
This one-hour webinar will present research and recommendations from a new Population Council series on developing and implementing high-quality programming for girls. Speakers include:
-Ann Blanc, vice president and director of the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program
-Sarah Engebretsen, staff associate, on novel ways to collect and use data on adolescent girls
-Karen Austrian, associate, on the best way to cultivate girl leaders
-Jennifer Catino, associate, on innovative approaches to improving girls' health
-Cynthia Lloyd, senior consultant, on where to go next with education for girls
-Judith Bruce, senior associate and policy analyst, on reframing the field's approach to violence against girls 
Click here for more information.
 
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection in Electronic Health Records: A Workshop
October 12, 2012
Washington, DC
This one-day Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to present varying viewpoints on the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records. Specifically, speakers will address the following topics:
-Clinical rationale behind collecting sexual orientation and/or gender identity data in electronic health records;
-Existing practices among health care providers and facilities with regard to the collection of these data in electronic health records;
-Development of standardized questions that can be used to collect these data;
-Applicability of collecting and sharing these data across different providers and systems;
-Policy considerations related to the Meaningful Use process being overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services;
-Mechanisms for supporting providers and patients in the collection of these data; and
-Development of appropriate privacy protections.
The 2011 IOM report, The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding, made several recommendations related to data collection. Included among them was the recommendation that data on sexual orientation and gender identity be collected in electronic health records. This workshop is in follow up to that recommendation. For more information, click here
 
SFBTA 10th Annual Research Day Meeting
November 15, 2012
Minneapolis, MN
The Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association (SFBTA) research committee is hosting our 10th annual pre-conference research meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to gather practitioners and researchers together to spend the day talking about topics pertaining to SFBT research and practice. This year's topics include a variety of useful tools and information for practitioners and supervisors:
*Presentations on solution-focused assessment and fidelity measures that practitioners and agency supervisors can use to enhance clinical practice with clients.
*Presentation on current research studies on microanalysis and grounding and a Delphi Study exploring how SFBT practitioners solution build with their clients
*Updates on current research projects funded by SFBTA on WOWW program (SFBT classroom behavior management) and In-Home SFBT for Troubled Youths.
*Networking opportunities for practitioners, researchers, and students to discuss research opportunities and obtain consultation.
Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata    
Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts
by Paula Dutko, Michele Ver Ploeg, and Tracey Farrigan
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-140)
USDA's Economic Research Service previously identified more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the United States based on 2000 Census and 2006 data on locations of supermarkets, supercenters, and large grocery stores. In this report, we examine the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of these tracts to see how they differ from other census tracts and the extent to which these differences influence food desert status. Relative to all other census tracts, food desert tracts tend to have smaller populations, higher rates of abandoned or vacant homes, and residents who have lower levels of education, lower incomes, and higher unemployment. Census tracts with higher poverty rates are more likely to be food deserts than otherwise similar low-income census tracts in rural and in very dense (highly populated) urban areas. For less dense urban areas, census tracts with higher concentrations of minority populations are more likely to be food deserts, while tracts with substantial decreases in minority populations between 1990 and 2000 were less likely to be identified as food deserts in 2000. Click here to read the full report.

Child Trends Conducts First-Ever Region-Wide Look at Data on Children across the National Capital Region
Child Trends was pleased to conduct the first comprehensive review of data on children and youth throughout the National Capital Region at the request of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP). Child Trends' data review, Assessing the Status and Needs of Children and Youth in the National Capital Region, was the basis for VPP's Sept. 6 call for collective action by public and private sector leaders across the region to address the needs of children and youth. Child Trends gathered, reviewed and, when possible, aggregated data across nine political jurisdictions in the National Capital Region for the first-ever region-wide assessment of the health, safety, economic well-being, and educational achievement of children and youth. The jurisdictions included in the review are the District of Columbia; Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland; the cities of Falls Church and Alexandria and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William in Virginia. Click here to read the full report.

Jails In Indian Country, 2011
Presents findings from the 2011 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 80 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other correctional facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This report provides trends in the number of adults and juveniles held, type of offense, number of persons confined on the last weekday in June, peak population, average daily population, admissions in June, and average expected length of stay in jail upon admission. It also provides data on rated capacity, facility crowding, and jail staffing in June 2011, and counts of inmate deaths and suicide attempts. Based on an addendum to the survey, data are also presented on inmate medical and mental health services, suicide prevention, substance dependency programs, domestic violence counseling, sex offender treatment, educational programs, and inmate work assignments. The report summarizes the total population of American Indians and Alaska Natives under correctional supervision in the U.S., including persons in correctional facilities or on probation or parole outside of Indian country. Click here to read the full report.

Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces
(Institute of Medicine)
Like many sectors of society, the U.S. military has a long history of alcohol and other drug misuse and abuse. In recent years, the face of the issue has been transformed by increasing rates of prescription drug abuse among service members. Heavy alcohol use and binge drinking continues to be a concern within the military. To better understand the current substance use problems within the U.S. military, the Department of Defense (DoD) asked the IOM to analyze policies and programs that pertain to prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorders for active duty service members in all branches, members of the National Guard and Reserve, and military families. The IOM concludes that to deal with this public health crisis, the DoD will need to consistently implement evidence-based prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment services and take leadership for ensuring that these services expand and improve. Click here to read the full report.

The Legacy of the War on Poverty's Health Programs for Non-Elderly Adults and Children
Barbara Wolfe
(From the Institute for Research on Poverty)
Two of the major gaps between those living in poverty and those with higher incomes are gaps in access to health care and gaps in health. These disparities were considerably worse prior to the introduction of the Medicaid program, which was signed into law in 1965. In this paper I will review existing gaps in health care usage and, to the extent possible, document gaps in health, comparing those with incomes below the poverty line to those above it. The paper includes a systematic review of programs directed at helping those living in low-income families obtain health care from the demand and supply perspectives, beginning with the period just before the War on Poverty and at selected intervals after the initiation of the War on Poverty in January 1964. I will review Medicaid's history, including the number of persons who use the program, and discuss its strengths and weaknesses both historically and contemporaneously. I will explore major components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which appear to be built upon the successful components of the Medicaid and Community Health Center programs of the War on Poverty. Click here for more information.

ICPSR Data 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:
-28142 Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) Study, May-September 2008 [United States]
-28441 Neighborhood Violence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996-2007
-29662 Annual Parole Survey, 1994
-29663 Annual Parole Survey, 1995
-29664 Annual Parole Survey, 1996
-29665 Annual Parole Survey, 1997
-29666 Annual Parole Survey, 1998
-29667 Annual Parole Survey, 1999
-30981 Intercity Variation in Youth Homicide, Robbery, and Assault, 1984-2006 [United States]
-33969 National Survey of the Court's Capacity to Provide Protection Orders to Limited English Proficient (LEP) Battered Women, 2003-2006
-34302 Survey of Data Curation Services for Repositories, 2012
-34345 Measures of Effective Teaching: Item-Level Instrument Files, 2009-2011
-34354 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2011
Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews  
Assets and Education Initiative 
The University of Kansas (KU) School of Social Welfare's Assets and Education Initiative (AEDI) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website dedicated to research on assets and education. The purpose of the website is to make research on assets and education more accessible to policy makers, practitioners, as well as researchers. Some of the things found on the website include easily accessible subject bibliographies, working paper series, briefs, reports, news and events all related to assets and education. As part of the launch, AEDI recently released a new four-part series of reports, "Assets, Economic Instability, and Children's Human Capital: Building a Better Welfare System for the Poor." This series of reports outlines the relationship between economic instability (i.e., income shocks, asset shocks, home loss, and asset poverty) and children's human capital development. If you would like to learn more about this research and other work being done at AEDI, please visit aedi.ku.edu
 
The American Community Survey and Rural Data Analysis
Kathleen Miller, Rural Policy Research Institute
This brief report discusses the American Community Survey and the challenges of that data source to understand conditions and trends in rural America. Click here to read more.
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