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October 25, 2013 || Vol. 5, Issue 42
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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
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants
Deadline: January 8, 2014
We are focused on youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. We support work that increases our understanding of:how settings work, how they affect youth development, and how they can be improved; and when, how, and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy and practice that affect youth and how its use can be improved. Click here for more information.
The Retirement Research Foundation Grants
Deadline: February 1, 2014
Syringe Access Fund Grants
Deadline: November 4, 2013
The Syringe Access Fund is a national grantmaking initiative that supports service providers and policy projects to reduce the risk of HIV, hepatitis C and other blood-borne pathogens among injection drug users and their sexual partners through expanded access to sterile syringes. The Syringe Access Fund provides grants to support work in two areas - Syringe Exchange Direct Services: Access to sterile syringes through syringe exchange programs (SEPs); and Education/ Mobilization: Policy/advocacy campaigns focused on improving public policy at local, state and/or national levels. Click here for more information.
NYU Post-doctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity
Deadline: November 18, 2013
New York University (NYU) is dedicated to ensuring that its scholarly community is ready to compete in a global world and is enriched by individuals reflecting diverse ancestries, perspectives and experiences. Diversity at NYU has historically been broadly defined, encompassing differences across categories of race and ethnicity, gender, age, ability, political belief, economic status, and sexual orientation. To that end, NYU has created the NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity fellowship program to support promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other under-represented groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU. Click here for more information.
DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Boren Fellowships
Deadline: January 28, 2014
Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Boren Fellowships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security. NSEP draws on a broad definition of national security, recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Presentations
n4a Answers on Aging Annual Conference and Tradeshow
Deadline: November 8, 2013
The n4a Annual Conference & Tradeshow is the largest gathering of locally-based aging industry decision makers in the country and is an invaluable opportunity for Aging Network professionals to meet, collaborate, share and learn. Focus areas for 2014 include: Accessing the Opportunities from the Affordable Care Act, Engaging Volunteers in the Aging Network, Working with Diverse Aging Populations, and others. We are seeking proposals for workshops that not only fit into one of the critical topics above, but also engage an audience of staff from both Area Agencies on Aging and Title VI Native American aging programs. Click here for more information.
Call for Abstracts
Third International Conference on Practice Research - Building Bridges not Pipelines: Promoting Two-way Traffic Between Practice and Research
DEADLINE EXTENDED: November, 15, 2013
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.
Call for Abstracts
Special Issue on Social Work and Health Inequalities
Deadline: November 15, 2013
We are seeking article submissions for a special issue on social work and health inequalities/inequities. All the journals are international journals and cover various aspects of health and human development across different age groups such as children, adolescents, or families, or service delivery areas like Public Health. Article submissions may be in the form of review articles, original articles, case reports, short communications, letters to the editor, or book reviews. The special issue is seeking abstracts that address your work or your teams work in the content areas of social work health and inequalities or social work and health inequities. Click here for more information.
Call for Abstracts
New England Science Symposium
Deadline: January 9, 2014
The New England Science Symposium, established in 2002, provides a forum for postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students (particularly for African-American, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native individuals) to share their biomedical and health-related research activities through oral or poster presentations, to engage in discussions related to career development in the sciences, to exchange ideas and to expand their professional networks. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of The United States Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Journal: Military Behavioral Health
This special edition of the AMEDD Journal will feature original research, theoretical articles, and substantive reviews of behavioral health services provided to active-duty Service Members, Veterans, and their Families across a broad spectrum. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
11th Annual Together We Can Conference
October 28-30, 2013 - Lafayette, LA
The annual conference for professionals and volunteers who are working together to make a difference for abused and neglected children. Click here for more information.
Council on Social Work Education 2013 Annual Program Meeting - Global Social Work: The World is Here
October 31-November 1, 2013 - Dallas, TX
The CSWE Annual Program Meeting (APM) is the premier national meeting in the social work education field. Each year, more than 2,600 social work educators, administrators, practitioners, students, and other key decision makers from across the country and around the world attend APM, making it the largest gathering of its kind. Click here for more information.
University of Maryland Center for Health Equity Public Health Critical Race Praxis Institute
February 17-19, 2014 - College Park, MD
This institute is intended for scholars and researchers interested in learning how to incorporate the principles of Critical Race Praxis into their work. The institute will include a combination of didactic and interactive components including small group work and a cultural experience that encourages the exploration of race and racism in contemporary America. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
New Database Available
Latino MSM Community Involvement: HIV Protective Effects
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the conceptual understanding and practical application of social integration theory to health behaviors. The research aimed to investigate the protective effects of community involvement in HIV/AIDS and gay-related organizations for HIV/AIDS sexual risk behavior among Latino gay or bisexual men and transgender individuals in Chicago and San Francisco. Click here for more information.
New Database Available
Age and Generations Study, 2007-2008
The Age and Generations Study documented employee and employer outcomes related to the experiences of multi-generational teams in five industry sectors, and examined how the work relationships of these team members might change over time. Additionally, the survey requested information on employees' perceptions of their work experience, work that is done by their work groups, opportunities for learning and development, organizational policies, and their assessments of their health and well-being. Demographic variables included gender, birth year, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, number of children, hourly wage, salary, and household income. Click here for more information.
University of Alabama Studies How Stigma Affects Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
This study reviewed the literature from low-income settings to examine how HIV-related stigma affects utilization of the series of steps that women must complete for successful prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT). Click here for a link to the full article.
GW Study Found Health Center Patients Remain Uninsured and Left Out of Health Reform
A new report by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services examines the impact of health reform on community health centers (CHCs) and their patients. The study estimates that more than five million health center patients would have gained coverage had all states participated in a sweeping Medicaid expansion. However, nearly half of all CHCs are located in states that have opted out of the expansion. As a result, more than a million uninsured CHC patients who would have been covered under a nationwide Medicaid expansion will be left without the protection of health insurance, according to the report. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren will speak at the COSSA Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Science and Public Policy
The Consortium of Social Science Associations Colloquium on Social and Behavioral Science and Public Policy will take place on November 4-5, 2013 in Washington, DC. Click here for more information. The theme of the meeting is Societal, Technological, and Scientific Changes. Click here for more information.
Film, Twelve Years a Slave, Is The Story Of A Slave Whose End Is A Mystery
The film tells the story of Solomon Northup, an African-American musician from New York - a free man, until he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., and sold into slavery. After an unlikely rescue from a Louisiana cotton plantation, he returned home and wrote a memoir, first published 160 years ago. Click here to read and/or listen to the NPR story.
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About SWRnet Formerly known as the IASWR Listserv, SWRnet (Social Work Research Network) was launched in October 2009 to continue serving the social work research community by providing regular updates on funding opportunities, calls for papers, conference deadlines and newly published research. Help others subscribe by forwarding these announcements using the Forward to a Colleague function at the end of the email. |
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