August 2, 2013  || Vol. 5, Issue 30
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding   
NIH Transformative Research Awards (R01)
Deadline: October 4, 2013 
The NIH Transformative Research Awards complements NIH's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. Click here for more information. 
 
Network and Infrastructure Support for Development of Interdisciplinary Aging Research (R24)
Deadline: September 25, 3013 
The purpose of this FOA is to provide network and infrastructure support to foster development of novel interdisciplinary research approaches on aging research related to multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). This FOA uses the Resource-Related Research Project activity code (R24) to support research networks that will advance interdisciplinary collaboration through activities such as meetings, conferences, data exchange, small scale pilots, short term training opportunities, visiting scholar programs and dissemination activities to encourage growth and development in the science related to older adults with MCCs. Click here for more information. 

 

Building Evidence: Effective Palliative/End of Life Care Interventions (R01)
Deadline: June 9, 2016
(National Institutes of Health)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to stimulate research that develops and tests optimal palliative and end-of-life care interventions (models of care) based on measurable outcomes. Palliative Care and End-of-Life (PCEOL) interventions are increasingly needed for all individuals with Life Limiting Illnesses (LLI's) in some form or other, including those who are culturally diverse or aging. Adverse impacts have been shown to extend to the caregivers and families of patients with LLIs. Many individuals with LLI's also may concurrently be suffering from multiple complex comorbidities (MCC's), placing an increasing burden on health, health systems and costs. Click here for more information. 
 
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity
Deadline: August 30, 2013
The Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity Program at the University of Pennsylvania is a competitive program whose goal is to increase the diversity of the community of scholars devoted to academic research. We seek to attract promising researchers and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse populations whose life experience, research experience and employment background will contribute significantly to the academic mission. Fellowships are available for postdoctoral training in all areas of study at Penn. Successful candidates will receive mentored scholarly and research training as well as courses and workshops to enhance their research success skills and prepare them for a faculty position in a major university. Click here for more information. 

 

Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 13, 2014
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers is pleased to announce a new focused regional fellowship program enabling pre- and early post-doctoral scholars to carry out research in the humanities and related social sciences in countries bordering the Mediterranean and served by American overseas research centers. Funding for this program is generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Click here for more information. 
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Call for Abstracts
4TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
Deadline: October 30, 2013 

When the very idea of welfare state is undermined, researchers, scholars, practitioners in social work are challenged to connect their endeavours to the core of social work mission and the support of social solidarity. The conference offers a space to present, discuss, and promote studies and research approaches, aiming at qualifying social work practice as well as the public accountability of social work profession. The annual conference aims to strengthen the scientific bases of social work: it provides an arena for researcher, practitioners, educators and policy makers to disseminate and discuss knowledge which is relevant to social work theory and practice and social policy. The scientific committee invites submission on the following themes:
1) Knowledge production and public accountability in social work
2) Research in social work as participative learning process
3) Standing up to complexity - specific and universal issues in social work
4) Evidence and uncertainty - pathways to accountable social work research and practice
5) Social diversity: Promoting human rights and the role of research
6) Social work and political action: what has research to do with this?
Click here for more information.  

 

Call for Papers

The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences
Deadline: November 1, 2013
The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences is announcing a special issue on social networks to be published in early 2015. It will be co-edited by the journal's editor-in-chief, Merril Silverstein, and Benjamin Cornwell of Cornell University. We are particularly interested in papers that analyze social networks in sophisticated or innovative ways. Micro- and macro-level analyses as well as theoretical, quantitative, and qualitative approaches will be considered. Analyses involving egocentric or whole networks are welcome, as are analyses involving social network indices or triadic and higher-order processes. Papers may focus on aspects of social network structure in their own right or examine relationships between social networks and their determinants and/or effects. Click here for more information. 

Conferences & Trainingsconf
Third International Conference on Practice Research
June 9-11, 2014
New York, NY
A persistent metaphor for linking social work research and practice is "building a bridge". However, prevailing strategies for doing so come closer to "digging a pipeline"-- with all knowledge flowing from academic researchers to social work practitioners and ultimately to the people who use social work services. But real bridges support two-way traffic, and social work knowledge-building should do the same. The purpose of this conference is to promote innovative, flexible and truly collaborative practice-research strategies that engage academic researchers and social work practitioners in a productive dialogue rather than a conflict over research-based "versus" practice-based knowledge-development paradigms. It is intended to bring our most inventive national and international thinkers together to learn from each other rather than to set them apart. Click here for more information and for the upcoming call for abstracts.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 

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:
-34643 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR), 2001
-34753 Census of Population and Housing, 2010 [United States]: Congressional District Summary File (113th Congress)
-34771 Measures of Effective Teaching: Study Information
-34799 Levels of Democracy and Democratic Institutionalization in 18 Latin American Countries, 1978-2004
Click here for the full list of data resources.
 
Child Welfare Librarian
Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in July:
-Evaluating Service Delivery of an Aftercare Model for School-Aged Youths Departing Residential Care; Author(s): Trout, Alexandra L.;Jansz, Chrystal.;Epstein, Michael H.;Tyler, Patrick.
-The Children's Bureau's Influence on the Social Work Curriculum: One State's Experience (Chapter 7 in Women and Children First: The Contribution of the Children's Bureau to Social Work Education); Author(s): Grossman, Bart.;Clark, Sherrill.
-Child Welfare Research: The Neglected Mandate (Chapter 10 in Women and Children First: The Contribution of the Children's Bureau to Social Work Education); Author(s): Collins-Camargo, Crystal.
-Children's Rights and Distributive Justice in Maternal and Child Health (Chapter 1 in Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, and Policy in Public Health. 3rd Ed.); Author(s): Margolis, Lewis.;Kotch, Jonathan B.
-Tracing the Historical Foundations of Maternal and Child Health to Contemporary Times (Chapter 2 in Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, and Policy in Public Health. 3rd Ed.); Author(s): Margolis, Lewis.;Kotch, Jonathan B.
To view all 143 publications and their detail click here.
News & Noticesnews  
Gender composition of scholarly publications (1665 - 2011)
The newly developed gender browser provides a multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing. A pre-print paper describing the study can be found here. The JSTOR corpus is a collection of research articles and other documents from scholarly fields including biology, economics, law, sociology, and statistics. (Some areas such as physics and engineering are not well represented in the JSTOR collection and thus are not mapped here.) We use the hierarchical map equation to uncover the structure of disciplines, subdisciplines, specialties, subspecialties, and so forth in the JSTOR corpus, based upon the network of citations among 1.8 million scholarly articles connected by citation and spanning the period from 1665 to 2011. This generates the hierarchical classification of scholarly activities revealed in the gender browser. The hierarchical visualization uses the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit created by Nicolas G. Belmonte. The gender browser was developed under the Eigenfactor Project at the University of Washington in collaboration with JSTOR. The gender browser has been developed by: Jevin D. West, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jennifer Jacquet, Michael Brooks, and Cecilia Aragon. For questions, please contact Jevin D. West at [email protected]. Click here for more information. 
About SWRnet
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