October 12, 2012  || Vol. 4, Issue 41
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding   
The NARSAD 2013 Independent Investigator Grant 
Deadline: November 15, 2012 
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation will be accepting online applications for the 2013 Independent Investigator Grant starting Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:00AM EDT. The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Independent Investigator Grant offers up to $50,000 a year for two (2) years and is intended for scientists at the associate professor level (or equivalent) with national competitive supports as a principal investigator (P.I.). Please note that an assistant professor who is a principal investigator (P.I.) on a NIH R01 grant is now eligible for the Independent Investigator Grant. The program is intended to facilitate innovative research opportunities and supports basic, as well as translational and/or clinical investigators. However, research must be relevant to understanding, treatment, and prevention of serious psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or early onset brain and behavior disorders. For more information regarding eligibility or requirements, please visit our website.

 

Employee Assistance Research Foundation 
Deadline: November 5, 2012 
The Employee Assistance Research Foundation will be issuing its next call for proposals in early September. This call will remain open until November 5, 2012. One grant of up to $100,000 US dollars will be awarded for this funding cycle. For this round of funding, EARF will support rigorous empirical research that addresses the effects of EAPs, or specific components of EAPs, on workplace-related outcomes. This call for proposals is not seeking studies with clinical outcomes (e.g., depression, substance use, anxiety) or satisfaction as the primary outcomes. Click here for more information. 

 

New Poverty Scholars, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI) 
Deadline: October 25, 2012 
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI) seeks to support research that will expand our knowledge of key trends in poverty and inequality. The CPI anticipates funding 5 proposals with a maximum award of $20,000 each. The awards will be made to scholars who have received their Ph.D. no earlier than 2005, who will then work collaboratively with one of the CPI's Research Groups to carry out the proposed research project. Click here for more information. 
 
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Deadline: October 29, 2012
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) offers Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in two tracks: (i) Broadening Participation (SPRF-BP), and (ii) Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences (SPRF-IBSS). See the full text of the solicitation for detailed description of these tracks. 

 

Graduate Student Research Fellowships, Poverty Research 
Deadline: November 2, 2012 
The UC Davis Center for Poverty Research seeks applications from affiliated faculty researchers who are interested in hiring a GSR (up to 50% time) for Winter and/or Spring 2013. The Center anticipates providing up to four graduate students with research assistant positions. Receipt of research assistance funds is contingent on agreement by the affiliated faculty member to write a two page policy brief in collaboration with the research assistant, to be disseminated by the Center. Click here for more information. 
CallsCalls    
Call for Abstracts
9th 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
National Social Science Association
Deadline: see website
The National Social Science Association (NSSA) is a national interdisciplinary association devoted to interaction among social scientists through our conferences, seminars, and publications. This association was founded in 1983 with a series of regional conferences and has now become one of the largest interdisciplinary educational associations in the United States. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Papers
2013 NBER Universities' Research Conference
Deadline: November 1, 2012
On May 10 and 11, 2013, the National Bureau of Economic Research will hold a Universities' Research Conference on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in Cambridge, MA. The Great Recession has brought high levels of long-term unemployment and heightened rates of poverty to the United States. In addition, there has been a long-term trend of increasing inequality, characterized by stagnant incomes in the middle of the income distribution and rising income and wealth concentration at the very top. These developments may have important consequences for household well-being, and they raise new questions about the effects of government policies on households in the lower strata of the income distribution. Empirical research, or theoretical work with empirical applications, will be given priority in selecting papers for the conference program. Submissions from researchers early in their careers, and from researchers who are not NBER affiliates, are also encouraged. Click here for more information.

 

Call for Proposals
The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures
Deadline: November 30, 2012
Chapter proposals are currently being sought for an edited collection, The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures, published by Springer Science and Business Media. Authors are invited to propose a chapter that discusses a relevant issue of our times that promotes the understanding of aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives and disciplines. The edited collection will intertwine theories, stories, and best practices that are reflective of our increasingly diverse aging communities for the purpose of informing academics, practitioners, policymakers, and community members across disciplines in the field of gerontology. For more information, please see the full call for submission or contact Dr. Vakalahi at Halaevalu.Vakalahi@morgan.edu. 
 
Call for Applications
Building Future Faculty Program
Deadline: see website
The NC State University Building Future Faculty (BFF) Program is a two day all-expenses paid workshop for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars who are interested in pursuing academic careers, who are committed to promoting diversity in higher education, and who are one to two years away from beginning a job search. During the workshop, which is held each spring at NC State University, the participants attend sessions describing life as a faculty member at a research extensive university, expectations of new faculty, and resources available to faculty for help with research and teaching. Participants attend presentations on research and teaching and faculty development, as well as having discussion sessions with current faculty at all levels from assistant to full professor. Click here for more information. 
Conferences & Trainingsconf
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.
 
Developing Coordinated Longitudinal Early Childhood Data Systems
October 16, 2012
Join Child Trends and the Early Childhood Data Collaborative for a free webinar on: Developing Coordinated Longitudinal Early Childhood Data Systems, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11.30am-12.30 pm ET. The Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC) invites you to join a webinar featuring the ECDC's newest publication, Developing Coordinated Longitudinal Early Childhood Data Systems: Trends and Opportunities in Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Applications. Click here for more information. 
 
The End of Farm Labor Abundance 
October 25, 2012 
Sacramento, CA 
New data from the Mexico National Rural Household Survey reveal that the same shift out of farm work that characterized U.S. farm labor history is well underway in Mexico. Meanwhile, the demand for farm and non-farm workers in Mexico is rising, and a combination of recession and border enforcement has discouraged new Mexico-to-U.S. migration. New research funded by the Center for Poverty Research and conducted by Research Affiliate J. Edward Taylor examines the decline in foreign farm labor supply to the United States and the far-reaching implications for farm production, immigration policy, and rural poverty in California and other labor-intensive agricultural regions. Click here for more information. 
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata    
The Critical Need for Positive Indicators of Child Development 
Human development includes positive and negative developmental processes. Too often, researchers have focused on negative developmental behaviors alone, which provide an incomplete picture of factors that ultimately combine to affect child outcomes. There is a critical need to monitor positive development among children and youth as well. As part of its Flourishing Children Project, Child Trends has added new resources on Positive Indicators of child development to its website. Child Trends has developed rigorous national indicators of flourishing among children and youth for inclusion in national surveys, research studies, and program evaluations. 
 
Assessing Peer Relations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
(From Child Trends)
Getting along well with peers and obtaining supportive friendships are critical to positive youth development. Child Trends' latest brief, Assessing Peer Relations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners, describes factors that promote positive peer relations; provides information about easy-to-use measures for assessing peer relations (both positive and problematic); and lists several resources for promoting positive peer relations in childhood and adolescence. Click here to read more. 
News & Noticesnews  
DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ACROSS THE SBE SCIENCES
Date: 9/27/2012
Interdisciplinary research is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice." National Academies, Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, 2004 and the NSF Interdisciplinary Research web site. Rebuilding the Mosaic, which reports the results of the year-long SBE 2020 visioning process, finds that scholars in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences believe that future research will be interdisciplinary, collaborative, and data intensive. The Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) therefore encourages investigators to submit proposals that go beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplines, span across the existing core SBE programs, or extend outside the SBE sciences. The report identifies four cross-cutting themes that appear to be potentially fertile areas for this model of research: population change; disparities in experience and access to resources; language and cognition, including communication, linguistics, and the brain; and new technology/new media and social network analysis. This DCL does not limit eligible proposals to these cross-cutting umbrella topics. The directorate anticipates future activities that will support research in some or all of these thematic areas, and proposals that address research problems from an interdisciplinary perspective within these broad topics are welcome. A range of different opportunities exist for SBE scientists engaging in interdisciplinary research:
1. SBE has issued a new solicitation for an annual Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Sciences (IBSS) competition which seeks to support large interdisciplinary research projects and exploratory research projects.
2. SBE has issued a new solicitation for an annual SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships competition, which now includes a track for interdisciplinary education and training.
3. Either individually or through co-review involving multiple programs, SBE programs will consider proposals submitted in response to the Research Coordination Networks (RCNs) solicitation. 
4. Either individually or through co-review involving multiple programs, SBE programs will consider proposals for interdisciplinary research submitted in response to the standing program announcements and program solicitations. 
Links to SBE's programs and target dates, including contact information for program officers, are available here. Finally, when considering funding opportunities, investigators are encouraged to review the full range of the foundation's crosscutting and NSF-wide active funding opportunities.
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