Aug 15 Deadline: Apply for the Sundance Institute’s $1.2 million Doc Funding Initiative
The Sundance Institute announces the opening of a Request for Proposals for Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary. If you are creating a documentary film that frames, examines and amplifies social entrepreneurship as an innovative approach to the central questions of our time, read on to see how you can apply.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Office of Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) intend to foster and support
collaborative research on health disparities/inequalities in the United
Kingdom and/or in the United States. They have issued a joint call for
research grant proposals to support teams of UK and USA investigators. The
purposes of these guidelines to applicants are (a) to specify how
applications should be prepared and submitted, (b) to describe the
evaluation of applications, and (c) to describe how subsequent awards may be
made and administered.
Applicants should conform to the substantive content and procedural
instructions provided in PAR-07-379, Behavioral and Social Science Research
on Understanding and Reducing Health Disparities
Research Focus
The research proposed should be responsive to the substantive areas
stipulated in NIH PAR-07-379. This document provides background information
about the ESRC-NIH Research Collaboration. It is not re-printed in the
previously published PAR-07-379.
Contact Information
USA-based investigators should address questions to:
Ronald P. Abeles
Special Assistant to the Director
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health
Bldg. 31C, Rm. B1C19, MSC 2027
Bethesda, MD 20892-2027
United States of America
Phone: +1.301.496.7959
Fax: +1.301.435.8779
Email: abeles@nih.gov
UK-based investigators should address inquiries to:
Joy Todd
Research Directorate
Economic and Social Research Council
Polaris House
North Star Avenue
Swindon SN2 1UJ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44-(0)1793-413109
Fax: +44-(0)1793-413001
Email: Joy.Todd@esrc.ac.uk
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a network that works to foster partnerships between communities and educational institutions that build on each other’s strengths and develop their roles as change agents for improving health professions education, civic responsibility and the overall health of communities. They are a great source for partnership resources and tools, project fundings, and ongoing events.
Upcoming opportunities and deadlines:
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.
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:
Although we’d normally recommend a slightly more sophisticated camera for community projects, like the Panasonic GS35 (+/- $250, 1-chip, audio input), Pure Digital Technologies is offering an amazing deal to nonprofits on their Flip Video YouTube Camcorder.
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