September 4, 2015  || Vol. 7, Issue 36
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Funding OpportunitiesFunding       
Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B/START) (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2016
This FOA will use the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and seeks to facilitate the entry of beginning investigators into the field of behavioral science research related to drug abuse. To be appropriate for a B/START award, research must be primarily focused on behavioral processes and research questions. Click here for more information.

Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences (NSF)
Deadline: February 29, 2016
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to develop user-friendly large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research in SBE areas of study. Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases and/or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences. Click here for more information.

Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy (NIH)
Deadline: May 7, 2016
The goal of this program announcement is to encourage methodological, intervention and dissemination research for understanding and promoting health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Click here for more information.

Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children (NIH)
Deadline: January 7, 2017
This initiative encourages research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children. Specific targeted areas of research include biobehavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities such as biological (e.g., genetics, cellular, organ systems), lifestyle factors, environmental (e.g., physical and family environments) social (e.g., peers), economic, institutional, and cultural and family influences; studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known health condition and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings. Click here for more information.

DOCTORAL STUDENT OPPORTUNITY
Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (NIJ)
Deadline: December 15, 2015
The NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) Program in Social and Behavioral Sciences is open to doctoral students in all social and behavioral science disciplines. This program provides awards to accredited academic institutions to support graduate research leading to doctoral degrees in areas that are relevant to ensuring public safety, preventing and controlling crime, and ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States. Click here for more information.
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REMINDER
Call for Papers
Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) Conference - Careers, Care and Life-Course "Fit:" Implications for Health, Equality, and Policy
Deadline: November 2, 2015
The Work and Family Researchers Network is an international membership organization of interdisciplinary work and family researchers. We seek fresh and innovative scientific contributions on work and family issues from investigators in diverse disciplines. We value all disciplinary perspectives on the issues, including, but not limited to, anthropology, business and management, economics, family studies, gender studies, history, political science, philosophy, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, and related fields. The voices of all stakeholders are needed to understand and address work and family issues to advance knowledge and practice. We also encourage policy advocates, policy makers, and work-life practitioners to submit evidence-based contributions. Click here for more information.
Conferences & Trainingsconf  
Increasing knowledge and capacity to apply for research funding will result in increased ability of investigators to successfully lead research projects resulting in improved capacity for mental health research. This webinar will (1) introduce investigators to the NIMH; (2) highlight current research areas and areas of special interest to the Institute; (3) demystify the NIH application and review process. Topics will include the NIMH Strategic Plan, the Research Domain Categorization Project (RDoC), finding funding opportunities, the art of the concept paper, submitting your research grant application, what happens to your application once submitted to the NIH, what you can do to enhance the quality of your application, resources for early career investigators, and how to find NIMH staff that can help you navigate the process. Click here for more information.


Adventist HealthCare Fall Conference - Before the Bough Breaks: Health Equity Approaches to Reduce Infant Mortality 
October 8, 2015 - Hyattsville, MD
This year's conference will offer an informative day of panels and distinguished guest speakers exploring the causes and complexities of infant mortality to build awareness among healthcare professionals. Topics will include disparities in infant mortality rates, social determinants of health influencing maternal and child health outcomes, strategies for health care professionals to improve care and outcomes for mothers and infants, and more. Click here for more information.

CSWE Gero-Ed Center White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) Training Modules
Since the 1960s, the White House has convened a Conference on Aging each decade to identify and advance actions that improve the lives of older Americans. 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act, as well as the 80th anniversary of Social Security. The 2015 White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) recognized the importance of these key programs and identified the following primary issues that will impact older Americans over the next decade: elder justice, healthy aging, retirement security, and long-term services and supports.
The CSWE Gero-Ed Center is collaborating with social work educators to develop teaching resources on each of these issues. Click here for more information.
Research Publications & Data Resourcesdata 
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper - Income Volatility in U.S. Households with Children: Another Growing Disparity between the Rich and the Poor?
In this paper, we sought to document household income volatility as experienced by children over time, as one understudied aspect of household economic circumstances that might contribute to observed socioeconomic differences in children's achievement. Our analysis of six panels of the nationally representative Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) across a 25-year period reveal that income volatility may be an additional factor contributing to the gap between the achievement of rich and poor children: We find that households with children at the 10th percentile of income have experienced increasing volatility across the last 25 years while their affluent peers at the 90th percentile have experienced declining income volatility. Our sensitivity analyses show that these findings are robust to a number of differing analytic approaches and are not due to the changing racial/ethnic composition of low-income households over this same time period. Click here for more information.
News & Noticesnews   
NPR - Tracing The Shifting Meaning Of 'Alien'
The terms that dominate public immigration debates result from the deliberate choices of key political players. These choices sometimes have unintended consequences. Click here for more information.
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.

 

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