ANNOUNCEMENTS
NIA Paylines. NIA has recently posted their current pay-lines. See them, along with new funding topics, at https://www.nia.nih.gov/resear
Census Issues Request for Comment on Decennial Data Collection: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Census Bureau issued a request for comments on the 2020 Census on June 8. The request provides an opportunity for feedback on the Bureau’s proposed information collection activities associated with the 2020 Census, including the addition of a citizenship question (which COSSA opposes). Comments must be submitted by August 7, 2018. More information is available in the Federal Register notice.
NIH FUNDING
Education and Health: New Frontiers (R01) Clinical Trial Optional. Fall Due Dates (Oct 5 for the R01, also comes in R21 and R03. The goal of this funding opportunity announcement is to support research that will further elucidate the pathways involved in the relationship between education and health outcomes and in doing so to carefully identify the specific aspects and qualities of education that are responsible for this relationship and what the mediating factors are that affect the nature of the causal relationship. Click on the R01 announcements which also has links to the R21 and R03: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NIA Paylines. NIA has recently posted their current pay-lines. See them, along with new funding topics, at https://www.nia.nih.gov/resear
Census Issues Request for Comment on Decennial Data Collection: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Census Bureau issued a request for comments on the 2020 Census on June 8. The request provides an opportunity for feedback on the Bureau’s proposed information collection activities associated with the 2020 Census, including the addition of a citizenship question (which COSSA opposes). Comments must be submitted by August 7, 2018. More information is available in the Federal Register notice.
NIH FUNDING
Education and Health: New Frontiers (R01) Clinical Trial Optional. Fall Due Dates (Oct 5 for the R01, also comes in R21 and R03. The goal of this funding opportunity announcement is to support research that will further elucidate the pathways involved in the relationship between education and health outcomes and in doing so to carefully identify the specific aspects and qualities of education that are responsible for this relationship and what the mediating factors are that affect the nature of the causal relationship. Click on the R01 announcements which also has links to the R21 and R03: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/
High Priority Behavioral and Social Research Networks. This initiative, which is not yet released, will invite applications for new and renewal NIA networks on specified topics. The Program Officer is Dana Plude, dana.plude@nih.gov. While the FOA is not yet released, Dr. Plude indicated that an expired FOA is very similar: RFA-AG-16-008. Also, click on the following link to find examples of projects that were funded: https://www.nia.nih.gov/
This represents an opportunity for a different kind of research opportunity: to gather colleagues together to address a common area of interest from different perspectives.
Regardless of any specific announcement, any research that deals with dementia – causes, consequences, caregiving, quality of life, technology, whatever – has a better than usual likelihood of funding.
Also, among expired announcements, which still indicate interest in this research area, there was an FOA about research on mid-life adults (50-64) in order to provide education that will improve health trajectories in later life.
OTHER FUNDING
The William T. Grant Foundation supports research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. I’d like to share information about our next Research Grants deadline and hope you will consider applying or sharing this with colleagues. Deadline August 1, 3 pm EST. These grants target researchers at all career stages for high-quality empirical projects that fit one of our two focus areas. Research grants are awarded three times each year and typically range between $100,000 and $1,000,000 and cover two to four years of support. See more information at http://wtgrantfoundation.org/
National Center for Education Research. The Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning (Social-Behavioral) topic supports research on social-behavioral competencies (i.e., social skills, attitudes, and behaviors) that improve student achievement and progress in the K to 12 education system. The long-term outcome of this research investment includes a richer understanding of ways to improve or assess students’ social-behavioral competencies, and teacher practices that support them, that over time will improve student academic achievement and successful progression through school. For more information, visit: https://ies.ed.gov/ncer/
Facebook Research – Crisis informatics request for proposals: Facebook is supporting new and innovative research in the area of crisis informatics to make social media tools more useful to people responding to or impacted by a disaster. The research should explain how social media is currently used during a disaster, and it will unlock new tools and products to improve disaster response and recovery. No Facebook data will be provided to award recipients. We are pleased to invite the academic community to respond to this call for research proposals on crisis informatics and the role of social media in disaster response and recovery. Research awardees will be expected to contribute insights and innovative solutions in this space. For more information about this and other research supported by Facebook, visit: https://research.fb.com/
WORKSHOPS
The NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration in San Francisco, California this fall: October 17-19, 2018. The NIH Regional Seminar serves the NIH mission of providing education and training for the next generation of biomedical and behavioral scientists. This seminar is intended to provide a thorough understanding of NIH grant processes and interest. The seminar and optional workshops are appropriate for those who are new to working with the NIH grants process – administrators, early stage investigators, researchers, graduate students, etc. For much more information, visit: https://regionalseminars.od.
CONFERENCES
The Retirement Research Consortium and the Disability Research Consortium – summer’s annual research meetings – are both funded by the Social Security Administration and organized by NBER, will take place back-to-back on August 1 (DRC) and August 2-3 (RRC) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. There is no charge to attend the meetings, but you must register for each meeting separately. View the agendas and register online for both meetings here: http://www.nber.org/programs/
OPPORTUNITIES
CMS OMH is supporting 3 new “seats” in the CMS Virtual Research Data Center. Awardees will gain access to CMS restricted access data to conduct minority health research, including race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status. This announcement seeks brief project narratives for specific applied research projects that relate to creative and innovative methods for using CMS data to identify, document, assess, and evaluate health disparities among Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The project should enhance the capacity of the researcher to understand and utilize CMS data in future research projects. Seat access will be funded for a period of 36 months each. CMS is interested in data driven research which explores, but is not limited to, the relationship between health disparities and a variety of health-related outcomes or disparities in access. Requests must meet the eligibility requirements. Once selected, the study must receive approval from the CMS Privacy Board. Applicants may submit project narratives to HEResearch@cms.hhs.gov by June 16th, 2018for consideration. For more information, visit go.cms.gov/hedap.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Migration is planning a special issue on the Global Compacts on Refugees and on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Elizabeth Ferris and Susan Martin are the Guest Editors. Please find attached the Call for Papers. If you have questions or wish to submit an abstract, please contact the guest editors.
DATA
Cell Phone Only Households: the National Center for Health Statistics released updated national estimates of the size and characteristics of the population without landline telephones. This new report is based on National Health Interview Survey data collected from July – December 2017. During that time period, 53.9% of American homes were wireless-only. The report can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/
ESS: The second edition of data and documentation for ESS Round 8 is now available from the ESS website www.europeansocialsurvey.org. In the second edition, data and documentation for an additional five countries are included: Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain. This release also includes post-stratification weights (PSPWGHT) for all countries. Following this second data release, the integrated ESS8 file now includes data for all 23 Round 8 countries. The ESS Round 8 data – collected in late 2016 and early 2017 – are available to registered users on the ESS8 – 2016 Data Download pages. Round 8 included rotating modules on “Welfare attitudes” and “Attitudes to climate change”. An updated cumulative data file will be available later this year.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Module 4 dataset is now available for download from the Data Center on our website at: www.cses.org. The CSES Module 4 Full Release contains 75.558 respondents over 45 election studies from 39 countries/provinces. Survey data collection for the module was conducted during the years 2011-2016. The CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries and provinces include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro/electoral system variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis. CSES Module 4 focuses on distributional politics and social protection. The goal of the module is to enhance knowledge of voter preferences for policies that affect income and wealth distribution, in a period of constrained growth, deficit reduction, and expenditure constraint and austerity. It draws upon the literature in comparative political economy and develops data that will enable scholars to understand how political institutions condition voters’ reactions to the politics of budgetary restraint. The module is influenced by the economic crises of the years prior to its implementation. Also included in the module is a battery of questions about mobilization – asking respondents about contacts by parties and candidates, and about personal contacts intended to influence vote choice.
Election studies included in the release are: Argentina 2015, Australia 2013, Austria 2013, Brazil 2014, Bulgaria 2014, Canada 2011 and 2015, Czech Republic 2013, Finland 2015, France 2012, Germany 2013, Great Britain 2015, Greece 2012 and 2015, Hong Kong 2012, Iceland 2013, Ireland 2011, Israel 2013, Japan 2013, Kenya 2013, Latvia 2011 and 2014, Mexico 2012 and 2015, Montenegro 2012, New Zealand 2011 and 2014, Norway 2013, Peru 2016, Philippines 2016, Poland 2011, Portugal 2015, Romania 2012 and 2014, Serbia 2012, Slovakia 2016, Slovenia 2011, South Africa 2014, South Korea 2012, Sweden 2014, Switzerland 2011, Taiwan 2012, Thailand 2011, Turkey 2015, and United States 2012. Please e-mail us at cses@umich.edu with any questions you might have.
D-LAB
D-Lab offers training in Data Science this summer for students as well as pedagogical training for instructors. Visit the D-lab website for more information. D-lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description.
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list (immigration_group@lists.