The National Science Foundation, in conjunction with its counterparts from several countries in the Americas, Europe, and Africa have announced a major initiative on "recovery, renewal and resilience in a post-pandemic world.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Monday, March 22, 2021
Dear Colleague Letter: A Broader Impacts Framework for Proposals Submitted to NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate
The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate has issued a Dear Colleague Letter describing a new framework for the explanation of broader impacts in proposals submitted to SBE programs. As the DCL notes, "This "broader impacts framework" in no way alters NSF's existing criteria ‒ rather, it offers guidance on how to consider and convey broader impacts in ways that are easier for others to understand." If you are planning to write a proposal for NSF, you will want to review this letter carefully. Other directorates have not adopted this framework, but have acknowledged that it may provide proposal writers with a good way of framing their broader impacts narratives in other proposals. Please review the letter carefully, and let the Research Office know if you have any questions.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
2021 Faculty Research and Professional Development Program: RFP Posted
The Request for Proposals for the 2021 Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) program is now available at this link. (You must be logged in as an NC State user to follow this link). Please note that the deadline is April 19, 2021.
Please send any questions to Tom Birkland at tabirkla@ncsu.edu
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences funding opportunity
The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is the Army's lead agency for the conduct of research, development, and analyses for the improvement of Army readiness and performance via research advances and applications of the behavioral and social sciences that address personnel, organization, training, and leader development issues. Programs funded under this BAA include basic research that can improve human performance and Army readiness.
Closing date: 8/7/2022
National Science Foundation Developmental Sciences Program
DS supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development across the lifespan by working with any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults, and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that affect developmental change including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. Additional priorities include research that: incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, microgenetic, and longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., memory, emotion, perception, cognition), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales.
Full proposal deadline: 7/15/2021
National Endowment for the Arts: Research Grants in the Arts
Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Applicants may propose research projects that focus on quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed-method approaches using data gleaned from primary or secondary data. Sources may include but are not limited to, surveys, censuses, biological or medical experiments, observations, interviews, focus groups, social media activity, administrative data, and transactional/financial data. Other examples of data sources include archived materials such as written documents, audio/video recordings, or photographs and images.
Application deadline: 3/29/2020
Kress Foundation Digital Art History Funding
The Digital Resources program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.
LOI deadline: 9/1//2021
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
NC State University Department of Defense (DoD) re
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) recently updated its Department of Defense (DoD) resources webpage. Please visit the site if you are interested in seeking DoD grant funding. In particular, the Minerva Research Initiative is of particular interest to social and behavioral scientists.
Funding Opportunity at the Department of Defense
The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences is the Army's lead agency for the conduct of research, development, and analyses for the improvement of Army readiness and performance via research advances and applications of the behavioral and social sciences that address personnel, organization, training, and leader development issues. Programs funded under this BAA include basic research that can improve human performance and Army readiness.
Closing date: 8/7/2022
New Funding Opportunities in the Humanities
The university has shared these funding opportunities from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for Industrial Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Equity-Focused Policy Research: Building Cross-Cutting Evidence on Supports for Families with Young Children
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that current policies and practices fall short in supporting and facilitating families’ access to the social safety net system. Moreover, the pandemic has exacerbated the consequences of poverty, racism, and discrimination and exposed the health, economic, social, and other inequities vulnerable families experience. In the context of the pandemic, RWJF is taking steps to focus attention on and provide resources to families and communities facing the greatest strain. The Equity-Focused Policy Research (EFPR) grant program seeks to fund a body of research that illuminates strategies and policies that enhance families’ equitable access to key resources for supporting their children’s healthy development. EFPR grants are guided by a research agenda that focuses on: (1) understanding the sources of inequities in families’ access to and use of key resources; (2) identifying and testing innovations to advance equity; and (3) strategies for scaling up policies and approaches that are effective in advancing equity. The agenda addresses three policy areas as providing critical resources for families: (1) access to early care and education (ECE); (2) income supports (such as the Earned Income Tax Credit [EITC] and cash transfer programs) and income generation/replacement; and (3) nutrition supports (such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP]).
Key dates:
- Brief proposals: 2/16/2021
- Full proposals: 5/11/2021
USDA: Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE)
Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE)
NIFA requests applications for the Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE) Competitive Grant Program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 to address the needs of rural Americans by providing individual and family health education programs. The anticipated amount for awards in FY 2021 is approximately $4,000,000; approximately $1,000,000 of which will be for competitive external grants for eligible institutions to support the utilization of telehealth, telemedicine, and distance learning strategies for education and training in minority rural communities related to opioids or preventing spread of SARS-CoV-2 and in mitigating infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Application deadline: 4/29/2021
National Institute of Aging: Aging-Relevant Behavioral and Social Research on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
The National Institute of Aging is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight the continuing need for behavioral, psychological, social, and economic research on SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is a need for ongoing research on the longer-term effects of COVID-19 on the health and well-being of those infected, those caring for the sick, and many others whose lives were disrupted by the pandemic and its associated mitigation and prevention strategies. Beyond effects on individuals, this pandemic has brought about unprecedented social and economic disruption that is expected to have long-term and profound effects on the health of the population, particularly COVID-19 vulnerable groups including older adults. Interested PIs can apply through the Parent R01, R21, and R03 opportunities, as well as several NIA-specific funding opportunity announcements.
Application due dates: Multiple due dates between 3/4/2021 through 5/8/2023
NIH Funding Opportunity: Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19
While research related to the direct clinical effects of COVID-19 are supported by other funding opportunities, the purpose of this funding opportunity is to focus on the role and impact of digital health interventions [e.g., mobile health (mhealth), telemedicine and telehealth, health information technology (IT), and wearable devices] to address access, reach, delivery, effectiveness, scalability and sustainability of health assessments and interventions for secondary effects (e.g., behavioral health or self-management of chronic conditions) that are utilized during and following the pandemic, particularly in populations who experience health disparities and vulnerable populations
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
PDU@Lunch Series Spring 2021
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) invites the NC State community to a spring webinar series that will provide you with insights and techniques to think strategically about grant writing. The PDU will balance general guidance with specific examples to help faculty navigate differences among major funding agencies (e.g. NSF, NIH, DOD).
Upcoming:
Strategies for Early Career Investigators
Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 12:00-1:00 pm
NC State NSF CAREER Proposal Workshop
Before 2020-21, our college had never had a faculty member win an NSF CAREER award. Now, we have two awardees this year! We very strongly encourage you to look into this if you are a junior faculty member, or to share this with any junior colleague who may find this interesting. Of course, feel free to ask Tom Birkland (tabirkla@ncsu.edu) if you have any questions.
NSF’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers support for early-career faculty seeking to build strong foundations for research and education in their respective fields. Faculty interested in submitting a CAREER proposal are invited to attend a workshop covering key aspects of proposal development. The workshop, hosted by the Proposal Development Unit (PDU) in the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and College of Sciences (COS), will be held virtually from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday March 24, 2021.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
January 2021 Issue of Research Development and Grant Writing News
The January 2021 issue of Research Development and Grant Writing News has been posted to: go.ncsu.edu/research-news. The Research Development Office (RDO) maintains an institutional-level subscription allowing us to distribute freely within NC State University. Please note that the first two articles in this issue are directly aimed at humanists and social scientists!
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program (and Webinar about the program)
The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting applications for the 2021 Fellowships program.
On February 9, from 12:30-3 pm EST, we will be offering a live webinar for administrators and prospective applicants to introduce the program, describe the application process, and offer application writing suggestions. There will be a chance to ask questions and captions will be available. The webinar will be recorded so that others can watch it later. Please feel free to share this information with your faculty.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Post-Doc Opportunity: NeuroComputational Ethics
NC State University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in NeuroComputational Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences beginning in April 2021.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Equity-Focused Policy Research: Building Cross-Cutting Evidence on Supports for Families with Young Children
The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that current policies and practices fall short in supporting and facilitating families’ access to the social safety net system. Moreover, the pandemic has exacerbated the consequences of poverty, racism, and discrimination and exposed the health, economic, social, and other inequities vulnerable families experience. In the context of the pandemic, RWJF is taking steps to focus attention on and provide resources to families and communities facing the greatest strain.
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