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November 9, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 45
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SWRnet provides a weekly update about new research funding opportunities, calls for papers and proposals, conferences and trainings, new data and research, and news for the social work research community.
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Funding Opportunities
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program: Field Initiated Projects Program Research
Deadline: January 22, 2013
The purpose of the Field Initiated (FI) Projects program is to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities. Another purpose of the FI Projects program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. NIDRR makes two types of awards under the FI Projects program: Research grants (CFDA 84.133G-1) and development grants (CFDA 84.133G-2). In carrying out a research activity under an FI Projects research grant, a grantee must identify one or more hypotheses or research questions and, based on the hypotheses or research questions identified, perform an intensive, systematic study directed toward producing (1) new scientific knowledge, or (2) better understanding of the subject, problem studied, or body of knowledge. In carrying out a development activity under an FI Projects development grant, a grantee must use knowledge and understanding gained from research to create materials, devices, systems, or methods, including designing and developing prototypes and processes, that are beneficial to the target population. Click here for more information.
Examination of Survivorship Care Planning Efficacy and Impact
Deadline: January 7, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate research to evaluate the effect of care planning on cancer survivors' health and psychosocial outcomes; self-management of late effects and adherence to cancer screening and health behavior guidelines; utilization of follow-up care; organizational-level factors influencing the implementation of care planning; and associated costs. Specifically, the FOA aims to stimulate research that will: 1) develop and test metrics for evaluating the impact of survivorship care planning; 2) evaluate the impact of survivorship care planning on cancer survivors' morbidity, self-management and adherence to care recommendations, utilization of follow-up care, and on systems outcomes, such as associated costs and impact on organizations implementing care planning; and 3) identify models and processes of care that promote effective survivorship care planning. The ultimate goal of this FOA is to generate a body of science that will inform the development and delivery of interventions and best practices in follow-up care for cancer survivors. Click here for more information.
Basic social and behavioral research on culture, health, and wellbeing (R24)
Deadline: December 17, 2012
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued on behalf of the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet), will provide grants for infrastructure support to develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs, health, and wellbeing. This includes an appreciation for more comprehensive understandings of the relationships regarding cultural attitudes, beliefs, practices, and processes, on outcomes relevant to human health and wellbeing. Click here for more information.
Developmental Psychopathology, Psychobiology, and Behavior Postdoc
Deadline: December 1, 2012
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO offers postdoctoral research training for MDs and PhDs for research careers in developmental psychobiology, with special emphasis on the development of maladaptive behavior. The Department of Psychiatry has a long history of involvement in developmental research. Within the Department, there is presently a multidisciplinary group of investigators, the Developmental Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG). All of these researchers have a productive career involvement as independent investigators of developmental research techniques, some of which are technologically unique, and utilize a comparative approach to the problem of understanding development. Subject populations have ranged from humans through nonhuman primates to neuronal and glial cell cultures. Members of this group serve as the faculty for this research training program. Because of its setting, problems with clinical relevance are continually in the forefront. Click here for complete details.
Home Visiting Research--Young Scholar Travel AwardsDeadline: December 1, 2012The Home Visiting Research Network is proud to sponsor four travel awards to Washington, DC for February 13-15, 2013 to attend the Pew Charitable Trust's Third National Summit on Quality in Home Visiting, and to receive tailored training and mentoring by expert home visiting researchers. The Summit will take place from February 13th to 14th and the tailored training sessions will follow on the afternoon of February 14th and morning of February 15th. Attending the National Summit will give awardees the opportunity to participate in sessions led by home visiting researchers from across the United States. During the training/mentoring session held after the Summit, awardees will be assigned to a specific mentor who will guide his or her awardee in a curriculum tailored to the awardee's individual interests, as described in their application package. Click here for more information.
SRCD 2013 Millennium ScholarsDeadline: December 7, 2012The Frances Degen Horowitz Millennium Scholars Program was developed as a vehicle to encourage and support scholars from underrepresented ethnic/racial groups in pursuing graduate work in developmental science. To that end, the program provides educational and professional development for these scholars, giving them a launching point for a career in the field of child development. The program offers the selected scholars with mentorship from graduate students and senior scholars in the field who provide them guidance and support in their pursuit of educational and professional goals. Individuals from diverse racial, ethnic and disciplinary groups are recruited to serve as mentors. Through participation in the Millennium Scholars Program, minority scholars have the opportunity to attend the SRCD Biennial meeting, special preconference activities, and to develop a lasting mentoring relationship with their mentors. These experiences enable scholars to gain valuable exposure to the field and allow them to interact not only with their mentors, but also with other scholars and professionals. Click here for more information. |
Calls
Call for Contributors
Journal of Lesbian StudiesDeadline: November 30, 2012The Journal of Lesbian Studies will be devoting a thematic journal issue to the topic of WHITE PRIVILEGE. There is little scholarship that focuses specifically on whiteness and white privilege in lesbian studies. Possible topics to be considered include an examination of white privilege in: -lesbian relationships -lesbian communities -intersections of white racial identities and lesbian identities -representations of lesbians -lesbian health -feminist theory -fiction -poetry Please send a one-page abstract of your proposed contribution to adottolo@brandeis.edu by November 30, 2012. Proposals will be evaluated for originality and writing style, as well as how all the contributions fit together. Potential authors will be invited to write full articles in the range of 10-15 double-spaced pages.
Call for ApplicationsTeaching Poverty 101Deadline: January 4, 2013Institute for Research on PovertyIRP has introduced a biennial Teaching Poverty 101 Workshop to share its expertise developed over nearly a half century as the nation's original poverty research center. The workshop is designed to train and provide course materials to faculty who wish to develop poverty-related course content. Often faculties at teaching institutions are not able to incorporate current poverty related research into their course materials, for a lack of specialized knowledge or other resource constraints. The training will target faculty from a broad range of institutions, including those that traditionally have not had the capacity to foster a program of poverty research. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers7th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive TherapiesDeadline: November 16, 2012On behalf of the Latin American Association of Analysis, Modification and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a pleasure for me to invite you to the 7th World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, to be held from July 22th to July 25th, 2013 in Lima, capital of Peru, the Inca's empire land. Our Congress is a milestone in the history of BCT in the world, highlighting the fact that it will be the first World Congress BCT that will be held on this side of the world, South America, and for the first time the Portuguese will be included as an official language along with English and Spanish. Therefore, the slogan "Bringing cultures together for a better quality life" will be our main theme, in which our Scientific Committee, composed of world recognized experts in BCT, is proposing a program that is up-to-date while innovating by raising a unified theme globally and specifically to Latin America, which will assess the applicability and the evidences of BCT in such areas, resulting from the contribution of the blend of our cultures for the benefit and psychological well-being of our people. Click here for more information.
Call for AbstractsCommunity, Work, and Family ConferenceDeadline: January 28, 2013The Fifth International Community, Work and Family Conference will take place on 17-19 July 2013 at The University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. The conference focuses on how the rapid changes and transitions in society present challenges and opportunities for families, communities and organisations, with a special focus on work, families and communities in a globalising world. The past decade has seen significant changes in social policy in Australia and the surrounding region, including universal paid maternity leave in Australia and New Zealand; new rights to request flexibility; and changes in industrial law. Changing patterns of immigration, care and work in the Asian region are also of international interest. The conference will bring together social scientists and practitioners from a wide range of countries and disciplines, including emerging industrial nations of the Asia-Pacific region. Click here for more information. |
Conferences & Trainings
Using WhyNotTheBest.org to Benchmark and Improve Performance: Stories from the Field
November 16, 2012
WhyNotTheBest.org gives health care professionals and researchers a tool to benchmark health care performance and find resources to guide their improvement efforts. Created by The Commonwealth Fund, the free Web site brings together performance data from multiple sources to track the delivery of recommended care, readmission and mortality rates, incidence of bloodstream infections, patient safety and quality, use of health information technology, and more. Users can build reports comparing individual hospitals or hospital groups to others like them, such as safety nets, academic medical centers, or rural hospitals. With the site's interactive map, they can explore regional variation and track delivery system reforms, like the emergence of accountable care organizations. Join a webinar on Friday, November 16, at 11 a.m. E.T. to see a demonstration of WhyNotTheBest.org and hear stories from the field from those using the tool in their work. Click here for more information.
COSSA Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy
November 29-30, 2012
Washington, DC
The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy will take place on November 29 and 30. Speakers include: former Census director Ken Prewitt (COSSA's current President), Commissioner of Education Statistics Jack Buckley, National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Myron Gutmann, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Principal Assistant Director for Science Philip Rubin, National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Director Griffin Rodgers, congressional staff, and American Enterprise Institute Scholar Norman Ornstein, who will assess the results of the 2012 election. Click here for more information. |
Research Publications & Data Resources
Monitoring HIV Care in the United States: A Strategy for Generating National Estimates of HIV Care and Coverage
Approximately 1.2 million people in the United States live with HIV, and the number increases each year. This second of two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on monitoring HIV care shows that monitoring will provide an enhanced means of assessing the effect of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the Affordable Care Act on care received by people with HIV - knowledge that can inform future planning and guide potential redistribution of resources to improve the efficiency and quality of care and reduce health disparities. Click here to read more.
Children with Disabilities: State-Level Data from the American Community Survey(From ChildTrends)Children with physical or mental disabilities are a very diverse group, and many face challenges. Child Trends' research brief, Children with Disabilities: State-Level Data from the American Community Survey, presents data on the number and percentage of children identified as having a disability in the United States, and for each of the states. The brief also presents information on the percentage of children with a disability living in poverty and data on health insurance status. Click here to read more. |
News & Notices
NIMH/DSIR Funding Priorities: Portfolio Snapshots, October 2012
Portfolio Snapshots, a product of the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR), highlights recent NIMH investments in selected priority areas. We hope that these examples will guide you in submitting high-quality, targeted grant applications that complement the existing research grant portfolio. NIMH DSIR supports research with high public health impact in two critical areas: studies to test prevention and treatment interventions that could substantially improve mental health outcomes in real world settings, and mental health services research to improve access, cost effectiveness, quality, and outcomes of care provided to diverse populations in multiple settings. DSIR-supported research is intended to generate empirical knowledge that will improve mental health outcomes and functioning; enhance day-to-day clinical practice; increase the effectiveness of care systems; and inform the decisions of consumers, providers, and policy makers. The overarching goal of this research is to develop knowledge that, if applied, could substantially reduce the burden of mental disorders in the United States. Click here to read more.
Dear Colleague Letter: National Science Foundation and National Institute of Justice Collaboration in the Social, Behavioral and Forensic Sciences
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce that on September 10th, NSF's Directorate for the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences and the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice, (NIJ) signed a Memorandum of Understanding that outlines a framework for cooperation and collaboration in the social, behavioral, and forensic sciences. NSF and NIJ have distinct but complementary missions. NSF focuses on promoting the progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare and to secure the national defense, while NIJ seeks to provide objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and promote justice, particularly at the state and local levels. By working together, the two agencies can build on one another's strengths and leverage resources to identify and support innovative, cutting-edge social and forensic science research on crime, violence and victimization. The MOU provides an opportunity for joint review and co-funding, and for seamless communication with PIs whose work may better fit the mission of the other agency. As initial steps to facilitate this partnership, NSF's Law & Social Sciences Program will coordinate with NIJ to share information about workshops and symposia of common interest; identify reviewers and workshop participants from the other agency's network of scholars; co-sponsor sessions at professional conferences; and share information about the other agency's programs with our communities. Future directions include jointly funding topical workshops and research proposals, and development of new initiatives designed to catalyze high-quality, original scholarship in the area of criminology and criminal justice. Click here for more information. |
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