Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Social Psychology: July 15, 2012
NSF-Linguistics: July 15, 2012
NIH- Pilot Intervention and Services Research Grants (R34): June 16, 2012
Foundations
James S. McDonnell Foundations: June 15, 2012
Information and Technology and Innovation Foundation: June 1, 2012
Volkswagen Foundation- Key Issues for Research and Society: June 1, 2012
Student
Hosei International Fund-Foreign Scholars: June 1, 2012
Property & Environmental Research Center-Graduate Fellows: June 15, 2012
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Social Psychology
Program: The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span.
Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the psychophysiological and neurophysiological bases of social behavior.
The scientific merit of a proposal depends on four important factors: (1) The problems investigated must be theoretically grounded. (2) The research should be based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation. (3) The research design must be appropriate to the questions asked. (4) The proposed research must advance basic understanding of social behavior.
Deadline: July 15, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Linguistics
Program: The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that address questions that cross disciplinary boundaries, such as (but not limited to):
What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of language and/or language processing?
What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various components of our linguistic capacities?
How does language develop in children?
What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?
Deadline: July 15, 2012
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Funding Source: NIH
Title: Pilot Intervention and Services Research Grants (R34)
Program: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage research on 1) the development and/or pilot testing of new or adapted interventions, 2) the adaptation and/or pilot testing of interventions with demonstrated efficacy for use in broader scale effectiveness trials, or 3) innovative services research directions that require preliminary testing or development. The R34 award mechanism provides resources for evaluating the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability and safety of novel approaches to improving mental health and modifying health risk behavior, and for obtaining the preliminary data needed as a pre-requisite to a larger-scale (efficacy or effectiveness) intervention or services study. NIMH intervention and services research is aimed at preventing or ameliorating mental disorders, emotional or behavioral problems, the co-occurrence of mental, physical and substance abuse problems, HIV infections, and the functional consequences of these problems across the life span.
Deadline: June 16, 2012
Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-173.html
Foundations
Funding Source: James S. McDonnell Foundations
Title: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Complex Systems Research
Program: The JSMF Complex Systems program supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, non-linear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address important questions in diverse fields. While the program's emphasis is on the development and application of the theory and tools used in the study of complex research questions and not on particular fields of research per se, JSMF is particularly interested in the continued development of complex systems science and in projects that attempt to apply complex systems approaches to coherently articulated questions. The fellowship awards are intended to provide students in the final stages of completing a Ph.D. degree more leeway in identifying and securing postdoctoral training opportunities. The program will provide pre-doctoral students in the final phase of graduate school with "letters of intent to fund" that they can use in negotiations with potential postdoctoral training institutions. Students will not be awarded fellowships until they have been accepted as a postdoctoral fellow at a qualified 501(c)(3) institution (or equivalent) and the sponsoring institution submits an acceptable application to JSMF.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Link: http://www.jsmf.org/apply/fellowship/index.php
Funding Source: Information and Technology and Innovation Foundation
Title: Accessible Voting Technology Grants
Program: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has issued a Call for Proposals for projects that pursue accessible election technology research and development.
The ITIF Accessible Voting Technology Initiative, a project funded by the United States Election Assistance Commission, works to make voting processes and technology more accessible to all citizens, including those with disabilities. In addition to conducting a set of research activities aimed at developing a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities for accessible voting, the initiative also will award sub-grants for accessible voting technology research and development.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Link: http://elections.itif.org/projects/grants/
Funding Source: Volkswagen Foundation
Title: Key Issues for Research and Society
Program: With this funding initiative the VolkswagenStiftung focuses on complex research questions which have the quality, significance and relevance of a “key issue for research and society”. Increasingly, a successful analysis of such topics requires – as in cultural studies and social sciences – a close cooperation between several researchers with different expertise. The call is for the resourcefulness and creativity of the scholars to track down corresponding problem areas and questions.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Link: http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/funding/challenges/key-issues-in-the-humanities.html?L=1
Students
Funding Source: Hosei International Fund
Title: Foreign Scholars Fellowship
Program: Two to three fellowships are offered to young scholars from outside Japan to carry out non-degree research at Hosei University. Fellowships are for 6 to 12 months in duration.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
Link: www.hosei.ac.jp/ic/ic-e/
Funding Source: Property & Environmental Research Center
Title: Graduate Fellows
Program: PERC seeks to improve environmental quality through property rights and markets. PERC is seeking graduate or law students who are interested in natural resources and environmental issues and who show potential for research and writing in these areas. Preference is given to those who are working on a research paper, thesis, or dissertation on a natural resource or environmental topic. Successful graduate student candidates typically are working on a master's or PhD thesis on their proposed topic; law candidates most often are hoping to transform a paper they wrote for a class into a law review article.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
Link; http://www.perc.org/enviroprog/students/grad/apply.php
