Upcoming Deadlines
Federal
NSF-Research Experiences for Undergraduates: April 1 & August 28, 2013
NSF-Smart and Connected Health: May 28 & June 3, 2013
NSF- Perception, Action & Cognition: Conferences and Workshops: April 15, 2013
NSF- Digging Into Data Challenge: May 15, 2013
NSF- Dear Colleague Letter – Stimulating Research Related to the Use and Functioning of the Civil Justice System
Foundation
RWJF- Applying Behavioral Economics to Perplexing Health and Health Care Challenges
April 17, 2013
Gerda Henkel Foundation: May 31, 2013
National Council for Social Studies: April 30, 2013
Federal
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Program: The REU program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by NSF. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research:
1. REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department or may offer interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. Proposals with an international dimension are welcome.
2. REU Supplements may be included as a component of proposals for new or renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements or may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects.
Deadline: REU Sites: August 28, 2013
REU Supplements: April 1, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Smart and Connected Health (SCH)
Program The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is the development of next generation health and healthcare research through high-risk, high-reward advances in the understanding of and applications in information science, technology, behavior, cognition, sensors, robotics, bioimaging, and engineering. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other organizations is strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science, clinical practice and technology development, deployment and use. This solicitation is aligned with the visions (e.g., PCAST, NRC, IOM) calling for major changes in health and wellbeing as well as healthcare delivery and is aimed at the fundamental research to enable the change. Realizing the promise of disruptive transformation in health and healthcare will require well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches that draw from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, engineering, medicine, biology, and computer and information sciences.
Deadline: Exploratory Proposals: May 28, 2013
Integrative Proposals: June 3, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13543/nsf13543.htm
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Perception, Action & Cognition: Conferences and Workshops
Program: Supports research on perception, action and cognition. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Central research topics for consideration by the Perception, Action, and Cognition panel include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, and motor control. The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling. The PAC program is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs (e.g., Linguistics, Developmental and Learning Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience, etc). Proposals may involve clinical populations, animals, or computational modeling only if the work has direct impact on basic issues of human perception, action, or cognition.
Deadline: April 15, 2013
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686&WT.mc_id=USNSF_39&WT.mc_ev=click
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Digging Into Data Challenge
Program: On behalf of ten research funders representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we invite you to apply for Round Three of the Digging into Data Challenge. Now going into the third round of the competition, the Digging into Data Challenge has funded a wide variety of projects that explore how computationally intensive research methods can be used to ask new questions about and gain new insights into our world. To encourage innovative research from across the globe, Digging into Data is sponsored by ten international research funding organizations that are working together to focus the attention of the social sciences, humanities, library, archival, information, computer, mathematical, and statistical science communities on large-scale data analysis and its potential applications. The Digging into Data Challenge aims to address how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences. Now that we have massive databases of materials available for research in the humanities and the social sciences--ranging from digitized books, newspapers, and music to information generated by Internet-based activities and mobile communications, administrative data from public agencies, and customer databases from private sector organizations-—what new, computationally-based research methods might we apply? As the world becomes increasingly digital, new techniques will be needed to search, analyze, and understand these materials. Digging into Data challenges the research community to help create the new research infrastructure for 21st-century scholarship. Applicants will form international teams from at least two of the participating countries. Winning teams will receive grants from two or more of the funding agencies and, two years later, will be invited to show off their work at a special conference sponsored by the ten funders.
Deadline: May 15, 2013
Link: http://www.diggingintodata.org/
Funding Source: NSF
Title: Dear Colleague Letter – Stimulating Research Related to the Use and Functioning of the Civil Justice System
Link: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13076/nsf13076.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Foundations
Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title: Applying Behavioral Economics to Perplexing Health and Health Care Challenges
Program: Through this solicitation, we seek innovative proposals that apply the principles and frameworks of behavioral economics to persistent and perplexing health and health care problems. We hope to discover new interventions and insight that have potential to dramatically improve the way health care is delivered and health is promoted and preserved. We are particularly interested in supporting experiments that test innovative solutions to the challenge of reducing the use of low-value services in health care. This problem is particularly important given the rising costs and unaffordability of health care in the United States, but has been difficult to impact in part due to perverse incentives in a fee-for-service environment.
Deadline: April 17, 2013
Link: http://pweb1.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21420
Funding Source: Gerda Henkel Foundation
Title: Special Programme Security, Society, and the State
Program: As security-related issues, the fading role of the state and the gradual elimination of borders are central themes in both political and scholarly debates today. “Failing states” as a safe haven for terrorists, transnational organized crime, a loss of overall legitimacy, shrinking state authority in conflict-ridden regions are the relevant keywords in this context.
There is good reason for a more fine-grained perspective, however. Current security issues are multi-faceted and dynamic, ranging from military protection to efficient public infrastructure and a viable social negotiation process. As a matter of fact, the state is not irrevocably losing ground in security-sensitive areas. In some areas of national and personal security, state authority and sound governmental practice are more important than ever.
The “Security, Society, and the State” research programme reflects these contradictory trends. It targets new security-related issues that are prime examples of the post-Cold-War era but have been largely neglected in mainstream research. The programme is intended to encourage junior scholars to pursue unconventional research agendas that are nonetheless crucial, while providing senior scholars with the opportunity to focus intensively on work in progress for a limited period. Moreover, the objective is to combine basic theoretical research with concepts that are applicable to present-day political issues of security policy.
Deadline: May 31, 2013
Link: http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/content.php?nav_id=195&language=en
Funding Source: National Council for Social Studies
Title: Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research Award
Program: This award recognizes professionals who have made extensive contributions to knowledge concerning significant areas of social studies education through meritorious research. The use of the term research in reference to this award shall be broadly construed to mean any and all forms of recognized formal research - methodologies, paradigms and perspectives. Eligible research is that which has: - added significantly to understanding of the status, impact, characteristics and activities of social studies education or social education, including several separate and distinct contributions related to curriculum, instruction, evaluation and the learning and teaching of and in the social studies; - stimulated a sense of responsibility among and fostered other professionals to engage in additional research efforts; - added significantly to the information bases to those working in the social studies/social education field as evidenced by citations of their work within the social studies literature; and - been used by professionals as the basis for significant decisions, rationales and practices related to one or more areas of social studies curriculum instruction, evaluation, teaching or learning.
Deadline: April 30, 2013
Link: http://www.socialstudies.org/awards/research/grambs
