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February 28, 2014 || Vol. 6, Issue 9
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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
Funding for Analysis of Existing Data (DOJ)
Deadline: May 5, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking applications for the Data Resources Program. This program furthers the Department's mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the state and local levels. Click here for more information.
Health Services Research Projects (AHRQ)
Deadline: May 25, 2014
The Research Project Grant (R01) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R01 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. Click here for more information.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Impact Project
Deadline: April 2, 2014
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew), promotes the use of Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) and related approaches to help policy-makers in a wide range of fields incorporate health considerations into new policies, programs, plans, and projects, and make decisions that reduce unnecessary health risks, improve health, and decrease costs. This call for proposals (CFP) supports two types of initiatives: 1) HIA demonstration projects that inform a specific decision, with a focus on tribes, states, and territories that have had limited experience with HIAs to date; and 2) HIA program grants that enable organizations with previous HIA experience to develop sustainable HIA programs that integrate HIAs and related approaches in policy-making at the local, state, or tribal level. Click here for more information.
New York Academy of Medicine Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship
Deadline: March 21, 2014
The Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship program provides stipends for outstanding medical, dental, public health, public policy and graduate nursing students to conduct summer research projects on some aspect of health care delivery transformation for vulnerable populations and/or early childhood health and development, with an emphasis on policy implications. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Applications
Doctoral Research to Practice Institute
Deadline: March 14, 2014
Sponsored by the Network for Social Work Management and Boston University School of Social Work, this is a 1-day competitive invited institute in which 12 doctoral students will be able to obtain consultation from experts on their research and scholarly plans related to social work management and leadership. Two evening dinners facilitate networking with faculty and fellow scholars on these topics. This pre-conference event takes place at the Boston University School of Social Work on the evening of June 3rd and the day and evening of June 4th, immediately prior to the main conference on social work management from June 5 - 6 at Simmons College in Boston. Click here for more information.
Call for Authors
Encyclopedia of World Poverty - 2nd Edition
Deadline: April 2, 2014
SAGE's Encyclopedia of World Poverty 2nd Edition is now under development (1st Edition: Library Journal Best Reference, Booklist Editor's Choice). This completely updated five-volume reference will provide extensive and current information on the changing world of poverty, as well as insight into the contemporary debates. Over 850 signed articles will explore poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty, along with its causes and effects. This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference in 2015 and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product available to students via the library's electronic services. For more information, email Joanne Steinberg, Author Manager at poverty@golsonmedia.com. Please provide your CV or a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related disciplines.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of
The British Journal of Social Work: Social Work and Recovery
Deadline: September 5, 2014
Recovery is a process whereby individuals or families restore rights, roles, and responsibilities lost through illness, disability, or other social problems. It requires hope and empowerment, supported by a vision for a different way of being. Recovery is a concept at the heart of social work practice, though the profession is frequently following others in articulating and evidencing good practice. Yet despite the theoretical basis of recovery finding synergy with social work, there is limited research informing social workers on how best to intervene effectively and to influence the social factors enabling or impeding recovery. This Special Issue will publish internationally relevant contributions to social work research and thinking about recovery across multiple social work fields. Click here for more information.
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Advances in Social Work: Technology, the Internet & Social Work Practice
Deadline: September 30, 2014
This special issue of Advances in Social Work will explore the themes of changing technology and media and their impact on social work practice. Taking a broad stance on defining practice, articles may focus on any element of the practice landscape including: clinical work, social work administration, policy advocacy, community organizing, and others. Click here for more information.
Call for Reviewers
Health Resources and Services Administrations (HRSA)
Grant reviewers help HRSA select the best programs from competitive groups of applicants. Reviewers use their expertise to objectively evaluate and score applications against published evaluation criteria. Reviewers gain understanding of the grant-making process while enjoying the opportunity to network with colleagues. HRSA needs new and experienced grant reviewers with expertise in: health professions training, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, organ transplantation, primary care for underserved people, rural health. Click here for more information.
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Conferences & Trainings
Michigan State University Dyadic Data Analysis Workshop
June 23-27, 2014 - East Lansing, MI
The workshop will focus on analyses for data in which both members of a dyad are measured on the same set of variables. Topics to be addressed include the measurement of nonindependence, the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, the analysis of distinguishable and indistinguishable dyads, and the analysis of over-time dyadic data (e.g., dyadic growth curve models). The software package used in the workshop will be SPSS. Although the workshop does not require any prior knowledge or experience with multilevel modeling, participants are expected to have a working knowledge of multiple regression and analysis of variance, as well as SPSS. Click here for more information.
Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) 2014 International Mixed Methods Conference - Coming at Things Differently: Challenges, Advances, and Diversity Within and Across Mixed Methods Research Communities
June 27-29, 2014 - Chestnut Hill, MA
The conference will focus on harnessing the heterogeneity and overlapping consensus that resides within and across MMR and all related and interested communities.To emphasize the importance of sharing our research, our ideas, and the importance of learning from one another, the 2014 conference theme is "Coming at Things Differently." The conference will provide a venue to explore and expand the conversation about what mixed methods is, by listening intently to the wisdom in the diversity that potentially lies within the mixed methods research community. Click here for more information.
Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
When the 2014 schedule is finalized, it will list over 90 beginning and advanced courses at our primary location in Ann Arbor and several "off-site" institutions. They will build upon our foundational core of quantitative methods and substantive topics in a variety of workshops, classes, and special lectures. Click here for more information.
National Medical Association National Colloquium on African American Health: A Seat at the Table
March 8-11, 2014 - Washington, DC
In addition to the Affordable Care Act and its implementation, the Colloquium will explore: health equity, Hepatitis C, congestive heart failure, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell, asthma, diversity in clinical research. Click here for more information.
Institute for Research on Poverty Webinar: Access to Justice for Low-Income Litigants in Civil Cases
March 26, 2014
The question of whether and how to provide legal assistance to individuals who cannot afford civil counsel is a pressing nationwide issue. Low-income civil litigants have significant unmet legal needs, a problem that has been magnified by the recent economic recession. These unmet legal needs have considerable impacts not only on the individuals who are unable to access legal assistance, but also on our judicial system. In this webinar, Professors Tonya Brito and David Pate will discuss data assessing the magnitude of the problem and competing perspectives on how best to respond to the civil justice gap. They will also provide an overview of current federal, state and local initiatives designed to enhance access to justice. Finally, they will talk about the emerging empirical research in the field, focusing on what we know and what we don't know about whether and how legal assistance makes a difference for low-income litigants in civil cases. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) INQUIRE Data Toolkit
The INQUIRE Toolkit grows out of the growing awareness of the importance of collecting data related to early care and education. The Quality Initiatives Research and Evaluation Consortium (INQUIRE) Data Work Group was convened to address a request from stakeholders for information on building an effective data infrastructure to support activities including monitoring, continuous program improvement, reporting, validation and evaluation in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and other quality initiatives. The INQUIRE Data Toolkit was designed to provide tools to support effective data collection and the use of data to answer important policy and reporting questions through the use of common data elements. Click here for more information and to view the toolkit.
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) Report - Examining the Interaction Between Welfare and Disability: Lessons from an In-Depth Data Analysis
This brief focuses on the analysis of merged national-level SSI data and TANF data from the 26 states that report to the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) on their full TANF caseload. Click here to view the report.
Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Collaborative for Change White Paper - Better Solutions for Youth with Mental Health Needs in the Juvenile Justice System
Up to 70 percent of all youth in contact with the juvenile justice system have a diagnosable mental health disorder. Yet, the juvenile justice system is not always the best or most appropriate place to access the services they need. This white paper discusses the scope of this problem, scientific breakthroughs that can help, and how communities can adopt better solutions for youth with mental health needs in the juvenile justice system. Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
For Aging Transgender Population, Retirement Can Be Bittersweet Refuge
While retirement could mean the end of pretending, the golden years can also come with health care issues and intense isolation. Click here to read the full article.
The Support That Homeless Families Need
An innovative housing program demonstrates that keeping families together and their kids out of foster care can pay big dividends. Click here to read the full article.
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