Grant Opportunities 12-3-12

December 03, 2012

By , Government Grants Coordinator 831-459-1644

Upcoming Deadlines


Federal

NSF-Cultural Anthropology:                                                               January 15, 2013
NSF-Sociology:                                                                                  January 15, 2013
NSF-Law and Social Sciences:                                                                      January 15, 2013
NSF-Social Psychology:                                                                     January 15, 2013
NSF-Science of Organizations:                                                          February 3, 2013
NIH- Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Improve Health-Related Behaviors (R01):                                                        February 5, 2013

Foundations
IREX- Short Term Travel Grants:                                                        February 6, 2013
Clarence Heller Foundation:                                                              February 1, 2013

Student
SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants:               January 15-30, 2013
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation-Dissertation Fellowship:                                  February 4, 2013

Federal

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.
Deadline:                    January 15, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5388&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Sociology
Program:                     The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed.
Deadline:                    January 15, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5369&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Law and Social Sciences
Program:                     The Law & Social Sciences Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. The program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior. Social scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, made in multiple arenas, with the participation of multiple actors. Fields of study include many disciplines, and often address problems including though not limited to:
Crime, Violence and Punishment
Economic Issues
Governance
Legal Decisionmaking
Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice
Litigation and the Legal Profession
Deadline:                    January 15, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12507/nsf12507.htm

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:                    January 15, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            Science of Organizations
Program:                     Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds. SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Funded research is aimed at yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker and research communities. SoO welcomes any and all rigorous, scientific approaches that illuminate aspects of organizations as systems of coordination, management and governance.
Deadline:                    February 3, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504696

Funding Source:         NIH
Title:                            Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Improve Health-Related Behaviors (R01)
Program:                     his FOA seeks highly innovative Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose to translate findings from basic research on human behavior into effective clinical, community, or population-based behavioral interventions to improve health. Specifically, this FOA will support interdisciplinary teams of basic and applied biological, behavioral and/or social science researchers in developing and refining novel behavioral interventions with high potential impact to improve health-promoting behaviors (e.g., healthy dietary intake, sun safety, physical activity, or adherence to medical regimens), and/or reduce problem health behaviors (e.g., smoking, tanning or physical activity or alcohol or substance use, abuse or dependence).
Deadline:                    February 5, 2013
Link:                            http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-063.html

Foundations

Funding Source:         IREX
Title:                            Short Term Travel Grants
Program:                      Applications for US Scholar Grant and Funding Opportunities are made available approximately three months prior to the deadline for each program. Scholars interested in STG can apply to conduct research in up to two countries for up to eight weeks. As part of the STG fellowship, participants are provided with visa assistance, international roundtrip transportation, a monthly allowance for housing and living expenses, and emergency evacuation insurance.
Deadline:                    February 6, 2013
Link:                            http://www.irex.org/application/short-term-travel-grants-stg-application

Funding Source:         Clarence Heller Foundation
Title:                            Education Grants
Program:                     The objective of the education program area is to provide environmental and arts education opportunities to children and youth by supporting programs for educators and artists to improve and apply their teaching skills in these subjects; and by supporting efforts to advance environmental and arts education programs.
Deadline:                    February 1, 2013
Link:                            http://cehcf.org/education.html

Students

Funding Source:         NSF
Title:                            SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Political Science, Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Law and Social Sciences, Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, Economics, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
Program:                     The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) 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.
In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in both BCS and SES, the Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics program within NCSES, and the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program in SMA accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Requirements vary across programs, so proposers are advised to consult the relevant program's webpage for specific information and contact the program director if necessary.
Deadline:                    January 15-January 30, 2013
Link:                            http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11547/nsf11547.htm



Funding Source:         Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Title:                            Dissertation Fellowships
Program:                     The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which assists high-achieving low-income students reach their full potential through education, is inviting applications for its Dissertation Fellowship Program.
The foundation created the dissertation fellowships for doctoral candidates who are researching, within the populations served by the foundation, factors and contexts that help students with financial need overcome personal adversity and challenging socioeconomic circumstances to excel academically.
Now in its third year, the program will award four fellowships of up to $25,000 to support advanced doctoral candidates in a variety of fields. Please note that the applicants' graduate study may be in a diverse range of academic disciplines (e.g., policy studies, economics, psychology, education), but their topic must be tied to the foundation's mission -- advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need.
Deadline:                    February 4, 2012
Link:                            http://www.jkcf.org/