Archive for January, 2008

Funding announcement: Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research

Friday, January 25th, 2008

This is a great opportunity for innovative projects!

The Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funds highly qualified individuals to undertake broad studies of the most challenging policy issues in health and health care facing America. Grants of up to $335,000 are awarded to investigators from a variety of disciplines. Successful proposals combine creative and conceptual thinking with innovative approaches to critical health problems and policy issues.

Applications are welcomed from investigators in fields such as anthropology, business, demography, economics, engineering, ethics, genetics, health and social policy, history, journalism, law, medicine, nursing, political science, public health, psychology, science policy, social work, and sociology. We seek a diverse group of applicants including minorities and individuals in non-academic settings.

If you have a project idea that holds promise for enhancing our understanding of significant health-related problems and informing the development of sound health policies, we encourage you to consider applying.

Deadline for 4-page Letter of Intent Applications: March 26, 2008

The complete Call for Applications is available at www.investigatorawards.org or by calling (732) 932-3817. Please visit our website for more information about the program and its awardees.

Human rights video in Bahrain

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Witness’ HUB allows users to share videos on human rights issues around the world. Recently, they highlighted this video about state violence in Bahrain.

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Our new partner: the University-Community Partnership for Social Action Network

Friday, January 18th, 2008

We have joined forces with the University-Community Partnership for Social Action Research Network, a community of practitioners, students, university faculty and staff ready to initiate multicultural collaboration addressing local and global community issues.

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Poem about Participatory Video in Kenya

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Kole Ade Odutola from the University of Florida sent us this very heartfelt poem about participatory video called “Participatory Use of Video in Verse: A Prodigal Child”.  I’ve actually never seen a poem about participatory video, so I was excited to include this in a blog!

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Video Research & IRB Samples

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

We have been pretty immersed in the process of completing our application to the University of California, Berkeley Institutional Review Board (IRB). For those non-researchers out there, this is a committee that looks after the safety and privacy of research participants. Because VideoVoice method and other visual methodologies infringe on privacy in some basic ways, despite all efforts to do so in an ethical manner, getting a research protocol through the IRB process can be harrowing.

Although we just turned in our protocol in yesterday, and we are still waiting to hear what the committee says, here are some tips that I have learned so far:

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