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Funding for Social Sciences and Education
Social Sciences and Education Funding
Updated October 2007
The below listings are a compilation of annual funding opportunities in the social sciences and education fields identified as of January 8, 2006 and distributed monthly by OPD as Current Funding Opportunities & Potential Project Listings at Texas A&M University.
The below URLs were all active at the time this version (above date) was prepared. Program dates, when given, are for the most current past funding cycle, and therefore may change slightly for upcoming opportunities. URLs can change. If a URL link is not active copy and paste the program title into Google or Yahoo to search for a more current URL.
Please direct comments and feedback to mikecronan@tamu.edu, or suggest potential listings for updated versions.
William Diaz Fellowship to Faculty Members of Color
The William Diaz Fellowship will be awarded to faculty members of color at any rank, including senior faculty new to philanthropic and nonprofit management studies whose work focuses on philanthropy, nonprofits and diversity.
Deadline: March 31
NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
This URL contains application information for the 2006-2007 academic year which starts in September 2006. The deadline for receipt of complete applications is February 28, 2006. You may apply online or download forms from http://ugsp.info.nih.gov/applying.htm
Deadline: March 31
The John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts Fellowship Program
This program supports cutting-edge research in the social sciences on Eastern Europe, the New Independent States, the Near East, and Asia by providing one grant of up to $30,000. Grants are made to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Deadline: April 1
Teachers of Critical Languages Program
The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch in the Office of Global Educational Programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State (ECA/A/S/X), announces an open competition for an assistance award in the amount of $500,000 for the Teachers of Critical Languages Program. As part of the National Security Language Initiative, the program aims to strengthen national security and prosperity in the 21st century through education, especially in developing foreign language skills of Americans. The pilot program will bring qualified teachers from China and Jordan to teach their native languages in U.S. school systems.
Deadline: April 4
BAA Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office Technical Support Working Group
The US Army Research Development Evaluation Command, Aberdeen MD, solicits concepts for innovative Research and Developmental Projects for Combating Terrorism. The mission areas include Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures; Explosives Detection; Infrastructure Protection; Investigative Support and Forensics; and, Physical Security. Potential offerors are encouraged to download the BAA package from the BIDS website beginning on or about 1 March 06.
Deadline: April 5
Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program
The purpose of the ECEPD program is to enhance the school readiness of young children, particularly disadvantaged young children, and to prevent them from encountering difficulties once they enter school, by improving the knowledge and skills of early childhood educators who work in communities that have high concentrations of children living in poverty.
Deadline: April 7
Social Science Research Council Applications for Transitions to College Post-doctoral Grants
These grants will complement three commissioned studies on questions of stratification, gender, and English-language learners.
Deadline: April 9
APSA Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science
The Innovative Teaching Award recognizes political scientists who have developed effective new approaches to teaching in the discipline. The award seeks to honor a wide range of new directions in teaching, not a particular new direction.
Deadline: April 10
Math and Science Partnership (MSP)
The new solicitation continues the MSP Institute Partnerships – Teacher Institutes for the 21st Century. Continuing the MSP focus on its five Key Features, Institute Partnerships are designed especially to meet national needs for teacher leaders/master teachers and school-based intellectual leaders in mathematics and science.
Deadline: LOI April 14
FIPSE Special Focus Competition: North American Mobility in Higher Education
This priority is designed to support the formation of educational consortia of American, Canadian, and Mexican institutions to encourage cooperation in the coordination of curricula, the exchange of students, and the opening of educational opportunities among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The invitational priority is issued in cooperation with Canada and Mexico.
Deadline: April 17
FIPSE Special Focus Competition: US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program
This priority encourages proposals designed to support the formation of educational consortia of American and Brazilian institutions to support cooperation in the coordination of curricula, the exchange of students, and the opening of educational opportunities between the United States and Brazil. The invitational priority is issued in cooperation with Brazil.
Deadline: April 17
Advanced Placement Incentive Program
The Department of Education invites applications for the Advanced Placement Incentive (API) Program. The API program awards competitive grants designed to increase the successful participation of low-income students in advanced placement courses and tests. By supporting increased access to and participation in advanced placement courses and tests, the program provides greater opportunities for low-income students to achieve to high standards in English, mathematics, science, and other core subjects. The Department of Education anticipates making 12 awards with an estimated size of $611,000. The project period is up to 36 months.
Deadline: April 18
ESRC-SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are inviting fellowship applications for U.S. and Canadian scholars to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the U.S. or Canada, between June 2006 and September 2007. Approximately ten research fellowships of up to $8,500 (approx. £5,000) will be awarded. This is the third round of a pilot scheme designed to encourage communication and cooperation between social scientists in Great Britain and the United States and Canada.
Deadline: April 20
NSF/DOE Cooperative Activity Programs for Education and Human Resource Development
NSF and the Department of Energy have implemented collaboration between the agencies' programs for the development of human resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). NSF will support students and faculty from participating NSF projects who are accepted as participants in one of four DOE initiatives that provide hands-on research opportunities in DOE national laboratories during the summer: Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships, Faculty and Student Teams, Community College Institutes, and Pre-Service Teacher Internships. Students and faculty with approved DOE applications may request supplemental funding from NSF to support their participation.
Deadline: April 20
New IDEAS (Innovative Development and Engagement Across Sectors) Partnership Program
The Higher Education for Development (HED), in cooperation with USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, and Office of Education, is issuing the New IDEAS Partnership Program RFA for U.S. colleges, universities and community colleges, together with their overseas higher education partners, to address compelling development issues in USAID presence countries. Applications may address issues in any USAID development sector.
Deadline: April 25
Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM), Fiscal 2006Competitive Award Program—PREISM awards grants and cooperative agreements between $50,000 and $250,000. The program is publicly announced and competitively awarded through the use of peer review panels. Proposals should focus on economic research, evaluation, modeling, and/or decision support system development with direct implications for USDA policies and programs that protect, control, manage, or regulate invasive species, or trade policy relating to invasive species. Anticipated funding in fiscal year 2006 for competitive awards will be approximately $1 million.
Deadline: April 28
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Supports Transatlantic Research
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports transatlantic research cooperation among German, American and/or Canadian scholars (Ph.D. required) in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law by means of the TransCoop Programme. Joint research initiatives can receive up to EUR 45.000 (currently about US$ 59,000) each over a three-year period. Prerequisite is that the amount granted by TransCoop is matched by funds from US and/or Canadian sources. Funds can be used to finance short-term research visits, special conferences and workshops, material and equipment, printing costs, and research assistance.
Deadline: April 30 & Oct. 30
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Japan-US Friendship Commission
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Japan-US Friendship Commission are inviting applicants to their Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan. Program fellowships will support research on the modern Japanese political economy, international relations and society, and United State-Japan relations. Also encouraged is innovative research that puts these subjects in wider regional and global contexts, and is comparative and contemporary in nature. Eligible disciplines include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, political science, psychology, public administration, and sociology.
Deadline: May 1
Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program: senior posts in educational institutions abroad
These awards, viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Program, enable senior scholars to assume posts in educational institutions abroad. This year’s program includes opportunities in a variety of fields, most within the humanities and social sciences but some within the biological and physical/mathematical sciences. The posts are located in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden.
Deadline: May 1 for prelim apps
This letter is to call your attention to a new opportunity to broaden participation of underrepresented students in Ph.D. programs in electrical engineering and biomedical/biochemical/environmental engineering through supplements to current research grants funded by the Electrical and Communications Systems Division (ECS) or the Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division (BES) in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Deadline: May 1
Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health
The ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage the development of empirical research on social work practice, concepts and theory as these relate to the NIH public health goal of improving health outcomes for persons with medical and behavioral disorders and conditions.
Deadline: May 2 (AIDS related work), June 1
NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows In K-12 Education (GK-12)
Expected outcomes include improved communication, teaching and team building skills for the fellows; professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers; enriched learning for K-12 students; and strengthened partnerships between institutions of higher education and local school districts.
Deadline: May 5 and full June 19
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Call for Proposals on Childhood Obesity
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has issued a Call for Proposals for Round 6 of the Active Living Research Program on Childhood Obesity. Active Living Research is a $12.5 million national program to stimulate and support research that will identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity. The three priority topics are young people’s use of parks, physical activity in and around buildings, and physical activity in rural areas. Evaluations of community interventions that are part of the RWJF Active Living by Design program also will be supported.
Deadline: May 10
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
The Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. The program supports efforts to create new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. The program supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.
Deadline: May 10
NIJ FY06 Social Science Research on Terrorism
NIJ is seeking proposals to conduct social science research on terrorism that will inform national criminal justice policy and practice. Proposed research should aim to improve criminal justice and first responder strategies for prevention of, preparation for, response to, and mitigation of terrorist incidents at the Federal, State, and local levels. Proposals may address either domestic or international terrorism, but research should have direct, immediate, and obvious implication for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States.
Deadline: May 10
RWJF: Round 6 Dissertation Funding
Doctoral candidates may request up to $25,000 total for up to two years as support for their doctoral dissertations. Projects must have clear relevance to the overall mission of Active Living Research but do not have to address the specific topics in this Call for Proposals. The primary purpose of this Call for Proposals is to increase understanding of the relationship of environmental characteristics to physical activity for three priority topics: young people's use of parks, physical activity in and around buildings, and physical activity in rural areas.
Deadline: May 10
Japan Society for Promotion of Science/International Programs-Fellowships for Research
The JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan allows researchers employed at designated Japanese research institutions and laboratories to invite fellow researchers from other countries to Japan to participate in discussions, attend seminars, give lectures, or perform similar duties at their institutions. All fields of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences are included under this program.
Deadline: May 12
Department of Education - Migrant Education Even Start Family Literacy Program
Purpose of Program: MEES Family Literacy program grants are intended to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy of migratory agricultural or fishing families by improving the educational opportunities of these families through the integration of early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.
Deadline: May 12
The Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post secondary degrees in the computing disciplines. Initially, its emphasis will be on students from communities with longstanding underrepresentation in computing: women, persons with disabilities, and minorities.
Deadline: May 17
Collaborative Science And Technology Network For Sustainability
Through the Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) is seeking applications proposing innovative regional projects that apply science to decision-making to address a stated problem or opportunity relating to sustainability. To encourage innovative thinking about practical applications of science (including social science) and engineering for sustainability, ORD is funding the Collaborative Science and Technology Network for Sustainability (CNS). CNS projects will bring together diverse sets of partners to explore and learn about new approaches for environmental protection that are systems-oriented, forward-looking, and preventive and also link to economic and social dimensions.
Deadline: May 17
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The purpose of the HBCU program is to expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in theri localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development, principally for persons- of low and moderate income, consistent with the purpose of the Title I Hosing and Community.
Deadline: May 19
Hispanic Serving Insitutions Assisting Communities (HUD)
The purpose of the HSIAC program is to assist Hispanic Serving Insitutions (HSI) of higher education expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development, principally for persons of low and moderate income consistent with the purpose of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.
Deadline: May 22
Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
NIH research grant applications on the Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the US. Demographic and social aspects of race and ethnicity include issues related to understanding how the changing composition and conceptualization of race and ethnicity are affecting the US socially, economically, and demographically, including how increasing racial and ethnic diversity are affecting population health and health disparities; issues related to the development of racial and ethnic identity and to interactions between racial/ethnic identification and demographic, health, and other outcomes; and issues related to the measurement of race and ethnicity, including racial and ethnic self-identification.
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
The National Institute on Aging invites applications for research on Retirement Economics.
Deadline: June 1
Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program - Special Experiential Learning Grants
The purpose of SEL grants is to further the development of student scientific and professional competencies through experiential learning programs that provide students with opportunities to solve complex problems in the context of real-world situations.
Deadline: June 1
Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards (CEBRA) (R21)
The NIDA Cutting-Edge Basic Research Award (CEBRA) is designed to foster highly innovative or conceptually creative research related to drug abuse and addiction and how to prevent and treat them, and to support research that is high-risk and potentially high-impact that is underrepresented or not included in NIDA's current portfolio.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
NIH Career Development Awards (K Awards)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides several Career Development Awards (K awards) that individuals with a research doctorate should consider. Most of these awards support individuals that have accepted or are ready for a faculty position.
PA-06-001: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
PA-00-020: Independent Scientist Award (K02)
PA-00-021: Senior Scientist Award (K05)
PA-00-070: Academic Career Award (K07)
PAR-02-069: Career Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research (K18)
PA-00-019: Career Transition Award (K22)
PA-06-087: Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25)
PAR-99-065: Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research Award (K26)
PAR-04-058: International Research Scientist Development Award (K01). Deadline: Feb. 16
Deadline: June 1, Oct. 1
The foundation's specific purposes are (1) to engage in educational activities for the benefit of students attending school in the state of Texas and/or students who are residents of the state of Texas and (2) to provide educational funding through loans, scholarships, and other means. The foundation's current focus areas are: scholarship programs, teacher skill enhancement and new teacher preparation, outreach, school-community partnerships and improving science and math education.
Deadline: Many proposals due in June; check website for information on specific programs and deadlines
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. For the Latin American and Caribbean competition: completed applications must be submitted by the candidates themselves no later than December 1, 2005. Final selection of Latin American and Caribbean Fellows for 2006 will be announced in June 2006.
Available July 2006
William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Student
The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, a grantmaking program of the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC, offers the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship three times annually. The fellowship, which is based on academic excellence and need, is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who are members of minority groups.
Deadline: July 15
Developmental and Learning Sciences
This program supports studies that increase our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning.
Deadline: July 15 annually
American Educational Research Association Research Grants
With support from NSF and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the AERA Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are: (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. Minority researchers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program CFDA 84.170A
Eligible Applicants: Individuals who at the time of application--(1) Have not completed their first full year of study for a doctoral degree or a master's degree in those fields in which the master's degree is the terminal highest degree awarded in the selected field of study, or will be entering a doctoral degree program or a master's degree program in those fields in which the master's degree is the terminal highest degree awarded in the selected field of study in academic year 2008-2009; (2) are eligible to receive grant, loan, or work assistance pursuant to section 484 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA); and (3) intend to pursue a doctoral or master's degree in fields selected by the JKJ Fellowship Board at accredited U.S. institutions of higher education. This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Oct. 15
American Philosophical Society - Sabbatical Fellowships Humanities and Social Sciences
The Sabbatical Fellowships program is open to mid-career faculty of universities and 4-year colleges in the United States who have been granted a sabbatical/research leave but for whom financial support from the home institution is available for only part of the year. Candidates must not have had financially supported leave at any time subsequent to September 1, 2004. The total of institutional and external support should not exceed the academic year salary for the year in which the fellowship is held. There is no restriction on where the fellow resides; indicate the appropriateness of available resources. The candidate's doctoral degree must have been conferred no later than 1999 and no earlier than 1986.
Oct. 15
US-Egypt Joint Science and Technology Fund - Junior Scientist Development Visits Grants
This grant provides opportunities for short-term (maximum of six months) practical training of junior scientists. A junior scientist is someone who has earned a Ph.D. within the last 10 years. (U.S. applicants may also have a Master’s degree or currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program). The maximum grant award is $15,000 (U.S. dollars). Researchers representing the private sector and American and Egyptian institutions, such as Universities and Government research centers, may apply. Priority Areas for Research Grants: Biotechnology, Standards and Metrology, Environmental Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Information Technologies, Energy Other Fields including; Geology, Anthropology, New Materials and Nanotechnology, Economics, and other Social Sciences, etc.
Oct. 29
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree after June 2005 in any field of inquiry in the humanities or humanistic social sciences—broadly conceived—are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship, made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Wesleyan University. The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide scholars who have recently completed their Ph.D.’s with free time to further their own work in a cross-disciplinary setting, and to associate them with a distinguished faculty.
Nov. 1
Social Science Research Council - International Dissertation Research Fellowship
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Fifty fellowships will be awarded in 2007 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is at once located in a specific discipline and geographical region and engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives. The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies.
Nov. 1
International Dissertation Research Fellowship
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Seventy-five fellowships will be awarded in 2008 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives.
Nov. 6
American Research Humanities in China; Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development
(1) This program is for scholars in the humanities to do research in China. US citizens and permanent residents who have lived in the United States continuously for at least three years prior to the application deadline are eligible to apply. This program supports individuals with the PhD or equivalent to do in-depth research on China or the Chinese portion of a comparative study. Grants are offered for 4 to 12 months of continuous research in China. Applicants should demonstrate that they have fully utilized the available resources in the United States and are prepared by virtue of study, training, and planning to take full advantage of an opportunity to do research in China. The program has been made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
(2) Fellowships are available for Chinese scholars in the social sciences and humanities with the MA, PhD, or equivalent from a Chinese institution to carry out one or two semesters of individual or collaborative research at the invitation of a US host scholar. Candidates must be nominated by the US host; Chinese scholars may not apply directly. Nominees must currently reside in China. Scholars who have previously visited the United States for five months or more, or who are enrolled in degree programs, are not eligible. Funding for this program is provided by the Li Foundation.
Nov. 14
JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)of the United Kingdom acting through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom are working together to offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for one year of development in any of the following areas: new digitization projects and pilot projects, the addition of important materials to existing digitization projects, or the development of infrastructure (either technical "middleware," tools, or knowledge-sharing) to support U.S.-England digitization work. Collaboration between U.S. and English institutions is a key requirement for this grant category, based in part on the recommendations for international collaboration in Professor Sir Gareth Roberts's "International Partnerships of Research Excellence U.K.-U.S.A Academic Collaboration" (http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/UK-US-Academic-Collaboration/GarethRobertsIPoREx.pdf -- 25-page PDF) and the report of the American Council for Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/OurCulturalCommonwealth.pdf -- 51-page PDF.)
Nov. 29
New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
This program is intended to support projects in the humanities and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new kinds of information, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The Program especially encourages proposals concerning pre-modern China.
Nov. 30
Research on Learning and Education
The ROLE program seeks to capitalize on important developments across a wide range of fields related to human learning and to STEM education. It supports research across a continuum that includes: the biological basis of human learning; behavioral, cognitive, affective and social aspects of STEM learning; STEM learning in formal and informal educational settings; STEM Policy research; and the diffusion of STEM innovations.
Deadline: Dec. 11 LOI
ARCE administers fellowships for study in Egypt by students enrolled in doctoral programs at North American universities and by post-doctoral scholars and professionals affiliated with North American universities and research institutions. Depending on the source of funding, fellowships are granted for periods of between 3 and 12 months. Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Economics, Egyptology, History, Humanistic Social Sciences, Humanities, Islamic Studies, Literature, Political Science, Religious Studies
Jan. 18
S&S considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering and Technology (SPS).
This program solicitation covers the following modes of support:
1. S&S Scholars Awards
2. Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research
3. S&S Postdoctoral Fellowships
4. S&S Professional Development Fellowships
5. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
6. Small Grants for Training and Research (apply only for August date)
7. Conference and Workshop Awards
8. Other Funding Opportunities
Deadlines: Full Proposal Target dates: August 1, 2007 and Feb. 1, 2008
Association for Women in Science Graduate Student Fellowships
Female students enrolled in a behavioral, life, physical, or social science or engineering program leading to a Ph.D. degree may apply.
Deadline: Jan. 26
Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund
Talbots welcomes applications for the Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund. This program annually awards five $10,000 scholarships and fifty $1,000 scholarships to women seeking a bachelor's or associate's degree later in life.
Deadline: Jan. 3
Drug Abuse as Cause/Correlate/Consequence of Criminal Justice Related Health Disparities
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to encourage epidemiologic, prevention, treatment, and services research on criminal justice related health disparities among African Americans as it relates to drug abuse and addiction. Health disparities among African Americans are a major public health concern in the United States.
Deadline: Expires January 3, 2008
Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Focus on African Americans (R01)
The purpose of this Program Announcement is to encourage drug abuse and mental health research to better understand the disparities in HIV/AIDS in minority populations, particularly among African Americans, who as a group, have experienced exceptionally high rates of new HIV infections and worse survival rates than other ethnic/racial groups in this country.
Deadline: Expires January 3, 2009
The Camargo Foundation maintains a study center in Cassis, France, for the benefit of fellows who wish to pursue projects in the humanities and social sciences related to French and Francophone cultures, as well as creative projects by visual artists, photographers, video artists, filmmakers, media artists, composers, and writers.
Deadline: Jan. 15
NIJ FY07 Social Science Research on Emerging Issues in Forensic Science
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). NIJ solicits research on a broad array of emerging social science research issues in forensic science including, but not limited to, DNA databases, wrongful convictions, and evaluations of new forensic technologies and management practices.
Deadline: Jan. 23
Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES)
MUSES is aimed at soliciting new multidisciplinary activities that encourage researchers in engineering, physical and life sciences, social and behavioral sciences, economics, mathematics, and education to reach beyond their disciplinary boundaries in order to address complex issues related to materials use in the environment. There are two challenges: (a) to propose exploratory research issues that are viable and (b) to create new teams of researchers with the necessary expertise who can work together.
Deadline: February 7, 2007
AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars
The AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars honors an untenured woman scholar who has a record of exceptional early professional accomplishments and demonstrates promise of future distinction. The award is open to women in all disciplines.
Deadline: Feb. 10
Training for a New Interdisciplinary Research Workforce (T90)
Deadlines: LOI Feb. 14, 2006; full April 7, 2006
Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity (R36)
The National Institute on Aging is encouraging applications for dissertation support across all areas of research supported by the Institute. The broad research areas supported by the NIA are: Biology of Aging; Behavioral and Social Research on Aging; Neuroscience and Neuropsychology of Aging; and Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology.
Deadlines: LOI Feb. 15, 2006; full March 15, 2006
Transition to Teaching Program
The Transition to Teaching program encourages (1) the development and expansion of alternative routes to full State teacher certification, as well as (2) the recruitment and retention of highly qualified mid-career professionals, recent college graduates who have not majored in education, and highly qualified paraprofessionals as teachers in high-need schools operated by high-need LEAs, including charter schools that operate as high-need LEAs.
Deadline: Feb. 21 LOI
James Madison Graduate Fellowships
The maximum amount of each award is $24,000, prorated over the individual period of study, thus making the James Madison Fellowship the leading award for secondary level teachers undertaking study of the Constitution. Fellowship payments cover the actual costs of tuition, required fees, books, and room and board but cannot exceed $12,000 per academic year.
Deadline: March 1
Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats Research Centers of Excellence (U54)
The NIH invites applications for the establishment of Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Research Centers of Excellence. The overall mission of the CounterACT Centers is to develop new and improved medical countermeasures against chemical threats. Chemical threats are defined as toxic chemical agents that could be used in a terrorist attack against civilians, or those that could be released at toxic levels by accident or natural disaster.
Deadline: March 10 LOI; full April 11
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research: Ed A. Hewett Policy Fellowship
The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research offer the Ed A. Hewett Policy Fellowship. The program supports research on the countries of the former Soveit Union or Centeral and Eastern Europe, conducted under the auspices of and placement in a US government agency. Research areas of interest include social, political, economic, environmental, and historical development of Eurasia and Eastern Europe. Citizenship: US. The maximum award is $60,000. Applicants must be U.S.-based scholars or researchers holding a Ph.D. in any discipline of the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration and considerable background in some aspect of the history, culture, politics, and economics of the countries of the FSU and CEE. Individuals with comparable research skills who do not hold a Ph.D. will also be considered.
Deadline: March 15
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change – new grant program
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change is a new national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that seeks to improve the quality of health care provided to patients from racial and ethnic backgrounds most likely to experience lower-quality health care. Finding Answers aims to achieve this goal by: 1) Granting research funds to discover and evaluate practical and replicable solutions designed to reduce and eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities; 2) Conducting systematic reviews of existing published and unpublished literature regarding racial and ethnic health care disparities interventions; 3) Disseminating results from the research efforts and the systematic reviews to encourage other health care systems to address racial and ethnic gaps in care.
Deadline: March 16
NSF IGERT (major revisions to the previous program solicitation)
It is limited submit: 4 preliminary (due March 27; previously there were no restrictions on the number of preliminary proposals submitted by an institution) and 3 invited full (Sept. 29).
Deadline: March 27 prelim
NSF announces its intention to continue support of multidisciplinary teams to conduct creative and innovative research that will resolve phylogenetic relationships for large groups of organisms on the Tree of Life. Teams of investigators also will be supported for projects in data acquisition, analysis, algorithm development and dissemination in computational phylogenetics and phyloinformatics.
Deadline: March 27
Hispanic Serving Insitutions Assisting Communities (HUD)
The purpose of the HSIAC program is to assist Hispanic Serving Insitutions (HSI) of higher education expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development, principally for persons of low and moderate income consistent with the purpose of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.
Deadline: May 22
Methodology And Measurement In The Behavioral And Social Sciences (R21)
This FOA encourages applications addressing four general areas of methodology and measurement research in the social and behavioral sciences. These areas, discussed in detail below, include research design, data collection techniques, measurement, and data analysis.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R01)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to encourage the development of collaborative partnerships between scientists who study basic behavioral processes and those who study the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders (including drug abuse and addiction) and the delivery of services to those suffering from those disorders.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R24)
NIMH, NIDA, and NIAAA have for many decades been primary sponsors of research in the basic behavioral sciences. This long-term investment in behavioral research has resulted in the development of a large body of knowledge in such areas as emotion, motivation, self-concept, personality, cognition, memory, social cognition and influence, family processes, social networks, and sociocultural variations (see http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/basbehav.cfm). However, the theory, methods, knowledge, and insights from the basic behavioral sciences have not been fully utilized in understanding pressing public health issues in mental health and alcohol and drug use disorders: the etiology and assessment of disorders; the development of innovative preventive and treatment interventions; and the effects of interventions and services for diverse types of people in disparate social, economic, cultural, and environmental contexts.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
Building Translational Research in Integrative Behavioral Science (R21)
This FOA will utilize the R21 mechanism, and runs in parallel with a FOA of identical scientific scope that solicits applications under the NIH Resource-Related Research Project Grant (R24) award mechanism (above).
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. The research objectives of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include, but are not limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in work patterns in later life, (3) the evolution of health and economic circumstances of individuals through retirement and into later life, (4) time use and life satisfaction before and during retirement, (5) the implications of retirement trends, (6) retirement expectations, (7) international comparisons of retirement and (8) the development of innovative retirement modeling techniques.
Deadline: June 1; Oct. 1
SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
NSF's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences and Division of Social and Economic Sciences award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research.
Deadline: Various
American Sociological Association
The ASA offers varies awards, including: Distinguished Book Award, Dissertation Award, Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues, Jessie Bernard Award, DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, Award for Public Understanding of Sociology, Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award, Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.
Deadline: Varies
For FY2008, the Institute invites applications for research projects that will contribute to its education research programs in Reading and Writing; Mathematics and Science Education; Cognition and Student Learning; Teacher Quality: Reading and Writing; Teacher Quality: Mathematics and Science; Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning; Education Leadership; Education Policy, Finance, and Systems; Early Childhood Programs and Policies; High School Reform; Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers; Postsecondary Education; and Education Technology.
Deadlines: Letters of Intent due May 24, 2007 and Sept. 6, 2007; proposals due July 26, 2007 and Nov. 1, 2007
The Institute invites applications for Research and Development Center grants that will contribute to its education research programs. For FY 2008, two National Research and Development Centers are being competed: (a) the National Research and Development Center on Cognition and Science Instruction, and (b) the National Research and Development Center on Instructional Technology.
The Institute invites applications for its Postdoctoral Research Training grant program and its Predoctoral Research Training in the Education Sciences grant program. For the FY 2008 competition, the Institute will consider only applications that meet the requirements outlined below in the Request for Applications.
Links to other sites with funding lists
Townsend Center - a list of funding opportunities for dissertation-stage graduate students, recent Ph.D. recipients, and faculty in the arts, humanities and social sciences.