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Funding Source: NSF
Title: SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Program: The NSF's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, Division of Science Resources Statistics, and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
Deadlines:
Cultural Anthropology, Law and Social Sciences: August 15, 2011
Linguistics, Science, Technology and Society, Physical Anthropology, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics: August 16, 2011
Economics and Decision, Risk & Management: August 18, 2011
Science of Science and Innovation Policy: September 9, 2011
Documenting Endangered Languages: September 15, 2011
Political Science: September 16, 2011
Geography and Spatial Sciences and Sociology: October 15, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13453&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Cultural Anthropology
Program: The Cultural Anthropology Program supports basic scientific research about the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability. Cultural anthropologists analyze human social and cultural behavior holistically. This integrated approach makes anthropology a valuable research tool for understanding the modern world. Because cultural patterns are emergent over time and space, there is no single natural scale for ethnographic and ethnological analysis. In some cases, cultural patterns may emerge from the collective behavior of large ensembles of smaller scale units; in others, they may be imposed by larger scale constraints. The origins of social and cultural variability may be remote from the scale at which they are observed. Therefore, research may target any appropriate scale or scales from local to regional to global. The Program encourages innovative research that contributes to building spatially and temporally specific theory that extends understanding beyond individual case studies.
The Cultural Anthropology Program accepts proposals for a variety of project types: Senior Research proposals (that is, research proposals from scholars with PhDs or equivalent degree); proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants; Cultural Anthropology Scholars awards (for research-related, post-PhD training); and CAREER proposals. The Program will also consider proposals for workshops and training programs, as well as supplements to current awards to support Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Graduate Studies (REG).
Deadline: August 15, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Law and Social Sciences
Program: The Law and Social Science Program at the NSF supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. These can include, but are not limited to, research designed to enhance the scientific understanding of the impact of law; human behavior and interactions as these relate to law; the dynamics of legal decision making; and the nature, sources, and consequences of variations and changes in legal institutions. The primary consideration is that the research shows promise of advancing a scientific understanding of law and legal process. Within this framework, the Program has an "open window" for diverse theoretical perspectives, methods and contexts for study. For example, research on social control, crime causation, violence, victimization, legal and social change, patterns of discretion, procedural justice, compliance and deterrence, and regulatory enforcement are among the many areas that have recently received program support. In addition to standard proposals, planning grant proposals, travel support requests to lay the foundation for research, and proposals for improving doctoral dissertation research are welcome.
The Law and Social Science Program continues to solicit proposals that take account of the growing interdependence and interconnections of the world. Thus proposals are welcome that advance fundamental knowledge about legal interactions, processes, relations, and diffusions that extend beyond any single nation as well as about how local and national legal institutions, systems, and cultures affect or are affected by transnational or international phenomena. Thus, proposals may locate the research within a single nation or between or across legal systems or regimes.
Deadline: August 15, 2011
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5422&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: Health and Human Services
Title: Poverty Research Center Program
Program: The Poverty Research Center grants are for qualified institutions to provide a focused national and regional and/or state agenda expanding our understanding of the causes, consequences and effects of inequality and poverty and policies and programs to remediate and alleviate poverty, inequality and their affects. It is anticipated that investigators supported under the Poverty Research Center will benefit from the opportunity to conduct independent research; that the grantee institution will benefit from participation in the diverse extramural programs of HHS and other federal agencies; and that students will benefit from exposure to and participation in research and be encouraged to pursue graduate studies and careers in the social and behavioral sciences with a focus on poverty and inequality.
Deadline: Letter of Intent: June 20, 2011 (not required)
Full Proposal: July 20, 2011
Link: http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=97853
Funding Source: USDA
Title: Rural Cooperative Development Grant
Program: Rural Cooperative Development grants are made for establishing and operating centers for cooperative development for the primary purpose of improving the economic condition of rural areas through the development of new cooperatives and improving operations of existing cooperatives. The U.S. Department of Agriculture desires to encourage and stimulate the development of effective cooperative organizations in rural America as a part of its total package of rural development efforts.
Deadline: July 22, 2011
Link: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/BCP-RCDG_Grants.html
Funding Source: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Project Awards
Program: The Sage Foundation's awards are restricted to support for basic social science research within its announced programs, which include the following:
1. Future of work
2. Immigration
3. Cultural contact
4. Social inequality
5. Behavioral economics
The foundation mainly provides support for analyzing data and writing up results, but it occasionally considers larger awards for data acquisition projects highly relevant to its program goals. Grantees are expected to publish the results of their research.
Deadline: August 15, 2011
Link: http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/apply-project-awards
