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January 4, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 1
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Happy New Year! We look forward to an exciting year of social work research in 2013.
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
OJJDP FY 2013 Mentoring Best Practices Research
Deadline: February 19, 2013
This program seeks to enhance what is understood about mentoring as a prevention and intervention strategy for youth who are at risk of involvement or already involved in the juvenile justice system. While mentoring appears to be a promising intervention for youth, more evaluation work is needed to further highlight the characteristics and components of a mentoring program that are most effective. Research is also needed to demonstrate the specific components of mentoring programs that have a significant impact in reducing juvenile delinquency and offending. This solicitation will fund research studies that will inform the design and delivery of mentoring programs. The Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) expects that the results of this effort will encourage a more effective utilization of resources and enhance the implementation of evidence-based best practices for juvenile mentoring. Click here for more information.
Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer Care Grant Program
Deadline: February 1, 2013 (Letters of Intent)
Established in 2003 as a cooperative research initiative between the Alzheimer's Association and Intel Corporation, the Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer Care program seeks proposals having to do with personalized diagnostics, preventive tools, and/or interventions for adults coping with the spectrum of cognitive aging and neurodegenerative disease, particularly Alzheimer's disease. Submissions should be for groundbreaking studies on emerging information and communication technologies as well as their clinical and social implications. Strongest consideration will be given to innovative ideas rather than more evolutionary incremental research. Originality of the study is more important than extensive evidence for why it is a logical next step in a research program. Click here for more information.
Learning to Integrate Across Natural and Social Sciences
Deadline: March 20, 2013
Solutions to difficult problems at the interface of the environment and human society require the synthesis of diverse types of information from natural and social sciences. Today's undergraduate and graduate students must develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities that allow them to undertake such synthesis efforts and successfully engage in interdisciplinary efforts to solve socio-environmental problems. As part of its mission, SESYNC is committed to supporting research to advance understanding of the competencies that are critical for socio-environmental synthesis, including the ability to integrate knowledge from disparate domains. This RFP seeks proposals that build upon existing knowledge from various disciplines to advance our understanding of 1) how undergraduate and graduate students learn to integrate data, concepts, techniques, approaches, tools, perspectives, theories, etc. from natural and social sciences to understand environmental problems and inform solutions, and 2) pedagogies that support the development of this cognitive ability in a socio-environmental context at the undergraduate or graduate level. Click here for more information.
Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS)
Deadline: January 23, 2013; December 3, 2013
(NSF)
The Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) competition promotes the conduct of interdisciplinary research by teams of investigators in the social and behavioral sciences. Emphasis is placed on support for research that involves researchers from multiple disciplinary fields, that integrates scientific theoretical approaches and methodologies from multiple disciplinary fields, and that is likely to yield generalizable insights and information that will advance basic knowledge and capabilities across multiple disciplinary fields. Click here for more information.
Law & Social Sciences (LSS)
Deadline: January 15, 2013 (annually)
(NSF)
The Law & Social Sciences Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. The program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. Social scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, made in multiple arenas, with the participation of multiple actors. Click here for more information.
Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS)
Deadline: January 15, 2013 (annually)
(NSF)
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.
Social Psychology
Deadline: January 15, 2013 (annually)
(NSF)
The Social Psychology Program supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span. Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior. The scientific merit of a proposal depends on four important factors: (1) The problems investigated must be theoretically grounded. (2) The research should be based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation. (3) The research design must be appropriate to the questions asked. (4) The proposed research must advance basic understanding of social behavior. Click here for information.
Sociology
Deadline: January 15, 2013; August 15, 2013
(NSF)
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Click here for more information.
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
Deadline: January 16, 2013; August 16, 2013
(NSF)
The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple fields within the social and behavioral sciences. As part of its larger portfolio, the MMS Program partners with a consortium of federal statistical agencies to support research proposals that further the development of new and innovative approaches to surveys and to the analysis of survey data. Click here for more information.
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Deadline: January 18, 2013; August 18, 2013
(NSF)
The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences program supports scientific research directed at increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research, and workshops are funded in the areas of judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. The program also supports small grants that are time-critical (Rapid Response Research - RAPID)and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature (EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research - EAGER). Click here for more information. |
Calls
Call for Presentations
38th Annual National Institute for Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas
Deadline: March 1, 2013
The Institute, an ongoing activity of the Rural Social Work Caucus, brings together educators and practitioners to discuss issues relevant to social work practice in small towns and rural communities. This year's theme, Community, Commitment, and Tradition asks you to think about challenges faced within your rural communities, level of commitment within your community to addressing those challenges, and the degree to which tradition is considered when responding to those challenges. Call for presentation proposals will be open through March 1, 2013. Further information can be found here.
Call for Papers
Cityscape Symposium on Intersections of Housing & Child/Youth Well-being
Deadline: February 28, 2013
Examples of topics of interest include:
-frameworks for how to understand the impacts of housing, housing policy or neighborhood conditions on child or youth outcomes
-program or policy research seeking to understand the impact of HUD programs or housing policy on children or youth, or seeking to understand the impacts of child/family policy on housing or neighborhood choice or circumstances
-the interactions between housing and neighborhood conditions and systems and other child/youth/family serving systems (e.g., the child welfare system, the juvenile justice system, the public health system, etc).
Papers may be theoretical or empirical and must be original work not published elsewhere. To be considered for publication in this Cityscape Symposium, papers must be submitted by February 28, 2013. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. We are very interested in learning about work in this area that could make a contribution to this symposium. We are also interested in reaching out to early career scholars, e.g., graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior researchers and academics. Please send us an email indicating your interest in submitting a paper, including a short abstract describing the work and its timeline, and/or recommend colleagues who are doing work in this area that we should contact. We will follow up with researchers whose work fits criteria of topic, quality and timing to invite submission of papers for review. In addition to seeking papers, we are seeking peer reviewers. Please also let us know if you would be interested in being a peer reviewer for this Cityscape Symposium. Direct inquiries to Elizabeth Rudd at Elizabeth.C.Rudd@hud.gov and/or to Molly Irwin at Molly.Irwin@acf.hhs.gov.
Call for Presentations
FFTA 27th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care
Deadline: January 11, 2013
Experienced and dynamic presenters from the fields of child welfare and children's mental health are invited to submit workshop proposal for the 27th Annual Conference on Treatment Foster Care, hosted by the Foster Family-based Treatment Association (FFTA). Each year more than 600 treatment foster care and related family-based service professionals gather from around the world to expand their knowledge-base and learn new strategies and models that help vulnerable children and youth in out-of-home care thrive in a family-based treatment setting. Click here for more information. |
Conferences & Trainings
The Role of Community Colleges in Workforce Development for Low-Skilled Workers
January 11, 2013
Davis, CA
Policymakers continue to look to community colleges as critical institutions for improving workforce shortages and for raising the skills of the American workforce. However, despite decades of research on the rising payoffs to schooling and skills of all types, little is known about the vocational or career technical pathways of the community college and how such pathways affect the students and labor markets they serve. What is the role of the nation's community colleges in promoting skill development through vocational education offerings? The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis will host an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars to discuss new work in this area, focusing on what we can learn from newly available data on community college programs and outcomes, and what are the key questions that researchers should tackle next. Click here for more information.
Bridging the Research and Practice Gap: A Symposium on Critical Considerations, Successes and Emerging IdeasApril 5-6, 2013 Houston, TXHistorically, the profession of social work has grappled with strategies for bridging the gap between research and practice in both practice settings and the social work curriculum. Various models to support this integration have emerged, including the Empirical Clinical Practice Model and the Evidence-Based Practice Process Model. Despite widespread efforts to disseminate these models during the past three decades, their implementation (as well as the use of empirically supported interventions) in real settings has remained a challenge. There is a vital need to address the complex issues that have precluded the successful dissemination and implementation of practice- relevant research findings with diverse and complex clients, communities and organizations. This symposium at the University of Houston will draw on the experiences and knowledge of nationally-known faculty, researchers and practitioners to identify critical considerations, successes and emerging ideas to address many of these challenges. Click here for more information.
2013 GPPI LEAD Conference
Positive Outcomes for At-Risk Children and Youth: Improving Lives Through Practice and System Reform
January 24-25, 3013
Washington, DC
The Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) is a community of scholars, students, and policy practitioners committed to identifying pressing policy problems and recommending effective solutions. The Georgetown Public Policy Institute LEAD Conference (Leadership. Evidence. Analysis. Debate.) is a forum to discuss a domestic or international policy issue requiring our nation's attention. Through this annual event, GPPI will highlight a particular area of research of its faculty and research centers. Our inaugural conference, Positive Outcomes for At-Risk Children and Youth: Improving Lives Through Practice and System Reform, will focus on promoting effective solutions to the problems facing our nation's most vulnerable young people, featuring the work of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR). Click here for more information. |
Research Publications & Data Resources
Growing up locked Down: Youth in solitary confinement in jails and prisons across the United States
(From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
This report describes the needless suffering and misery that solitary confinement frequently inflicts on young people; examines the justifications that state and prison officials offer for using solitary confinement; and offers alternatives to solitary confinement in the housing and management of adolescents. The report draws on in-person interviews and correspondence with more than 125 individuals who were held in jails or prisons while under age 18 in 19 states, and with officials who manage jails or prisons in 10 states, as well as quantitative data and the advice of experts on the challenges of detaining and managing adolescents. Click here to read more.
Women's pathways to jail: The roles & intersections of serious mental illness & trauma
(From the Bureau of Justice Assistance)
This multi-site study addressed critical gaps in the literature by assessing the prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance use disorders (SUD) in women in jail and pathways to offending for women with and without SMI. Using a randomly selected sample (N = 491) from rural and urban jails, this study employed a structured diagnostic interview to assess current and lifetime prevalence of SMI (e.g., major depression, bipolar, and psychotic spectrum disorders), PTSD, and SUD in women in jail.Understanding female offenders' pathways to offending, including both risk for onset and risk for continued offending, helps elucidate the complexity of their experiences and identify key factors and intervening variables that may ameliorate or exacerbate risk. This type of research is critical to development of gender responsive programming, alternatives to incarceration, and problem-solving court initiatives. Click here to read the full report.
Rural America at a Glance 2012
(USDA)
This report from the Economic Research Service at the USDA provides an overview of rural population data in the United States for 2012. Click here to read more.
International Services Available From NCJRS
The national Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is offering the International Document Exchange (IDE) program, which is designed to meet the needs of non-U.S. organizations. Composed of members from 61 countries, the program also serves as a worldwide network for information exchange in the criminal and juvenile justice, substance abuse, and victim services fields. More information is available on the NCJRS International Document Exchange Web page.
Recently Released Reports
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) recently released several reports:
-Secretary's Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation Final Report
-Report of Third Grade Follow-Up to the Head Start Impact Study
-Child Outcomes and Classroom Quality in FACES 2009
-The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Policies Database Book of Tables: Key Cross-State Variations in CCDF Policies as of October 1, 2011
-On-Site Approaches to Quality Improvement in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Building on the Research on Coaching
-Review of Conceptual and Empirical Literature of Family-Provider Relationships
-Review of Existing Measures of Family-Provider Relationships
-Strengthening Families and Healthy Marriage
-Impacts of a Community Healthy Marriage Initiative
-The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative Evaluation: Impacts of a Community Approach to Strengthening Families - Technical Supplement
-The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation - Early Impact Findings on Low-Income Families Technical Supplement
-The Long-Term Effects of Building Strong Families: A Relationship Skills Education Program for Unmarried Parents
-Two Reports from Wave Two of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
Click here for more information. |
News & Notices
The Individual & Scholarly Networks: Building Networks and Evaluating Network RelationshipsJanuary 22, 2013Research Trends and the Elsevier Labs are joining efforts to plan a virtual seminar entitled "The Individual and Scholarly Networks". Collaborative platforms and social networking websites are becoming popular with scientists and researchers around the world: scholars can connect between institutions, countries and disciplines easily, faster and better than ever before. "The Individual and Scholarly Networks" will explore two aspects of this phenomenon; firstly, how the connections are forming, and how attitudes may change to adapt to the new environment, and, secondly, how connections can be evaluated, nuanced and measured. Click here for more information. |
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