Join the National Academies Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)  for Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change: A Workshop to explore the potential for synthesizing the human sciences (e.g., social, behavioral, psychological, political, organizational) to develop critical societal capacities for and responses to climate change. The workshop will take place March 23-23th at 4:00 PM ET.

The 2-day, virtual public workshop will consider how to integrate, align, and converge the broad mix of social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences to produce new insights and inform efforts for enhanced human responses to environmental change. Earth System Science increasingly incorporates human systems in its analysis of climate change, but social, behavioral, and social sciences have yet to align internally in prioritizing and addressing the range of challenges faced by individuals and communities in responding to the various stresses and opportunities posed by climate change.

CSDE Trainee Lauren Woycynzynski and colleagues at UCLA were recently highlighted in the New York Times for their newly released database on COVID-related prison deaths.  The data and the story in the New York Times observe how COVID-related deaths dramatically surged inside U.S. prisons. Thank you to Lauren and team for this invaluable research and data!  Earlier efforts on this project also benefited from CSDE Trainee Neal Marquez.  Kudos all around!

On February 14, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a webinar marking the release of a report on Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations. The report aims to identify structural barriers to participation in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM) by minoritized individuals and provides recommendations on how the scientific community can instigate meaningful changes to remove these barriers and instill principles of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI).

The report offers the following recommendations to the scientific community:

• Federal funding agencies and other grantmaking organizations should increase funding to better understand how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) support their students and faculty and how to translate the principles of minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to predominantly White institutions.
• Statistical agencies such as the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) should collect demographic data of students considering STEMM degrees.
• Leaders and decisionmakers at STEMM organizations should increase admission, hiring, and inclusion of minoritized individuals. They should also invest in evidence-based programs that connect minoritized individuals to peers and internal resources, connect with high-status professionals, and develop institutional norms that promote inclusion.
• STEMM organizations should collect data on the decisions of their leadership and how gatekeeping may occur within organizations and add antiracist responsibilities to leadership positions.
• Team leaders at scientific organizations should intentionally develop inclusive conditions within the work environments.
• Organizational leaders should develop processes to evaluate the role of individual bias and discrimination in organizational practices. They should also anticipate the potential for internal resistance to ADEI efforts and respond accordingly.
• Leaders of STEMM organizations should use a framework to evaluate norms and values of the institution and identify specific ways to address norms that impede diversity.

The report can be read in full on the NASEM website.

The training program has two main components. The week-long workshop in Washington, D.C. in June 2023 focuses on the role of research on the policy process and techniques for effective communication of research findings to decisionmakers, media, and nontechnical audiences. During the 2023-2024 academic year, participants will apply the lessons learned during the workshop in their preparation of two policy communication materials (for example, policy briefs, blogs, or op-eds) based on their dissertations or related research topics. We are inviting applications from U.S. citizens and permanent residents (Green Card holders) who are between their 3rd and 5th year of doctoral studies in demography, reproductive health, or population health.

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence seeks to support emerging scholars in gun violence prevention and to solicit research proposals for projects within Washington State.  Awards range from $15k-$75k.  Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Foundation (GAGVF) works to end gun violence in our communities by raising funds for research that informs public health and safety policies. The Foundation was created as a 501c3 nonprofit in 2019 to address the decades-long absence of research on gun violence and its prevention. We recognize gun violence as a complex public health problem that takes many forms: suicides, homicides, mass shootings, unintentional shootings, intergenerational trauma, and community violence. We seek remedies in research, education, and community engagement. We believe that sustained investments in research on gun violence and its prevention will lead to policies that save lives.

Research Priorities

1. We seek to support emerging researchers in gun violence prevention.
2. We solicit proposals for research projects conducted within Washington State.
3. We encourage interdisciplinary research that involves disciplines such as public health, social work, psychology, medicine, nursing, public policy, urban planning, epidemiology, and education.
4. We encourage research projects that address community-identified problems related to gun ownership, gun violence, and impacts on children, youth and families.
5. We encourage projects that identify new questions or issues in an under-funded or emerging area of gun violence prevention research. Examples include:
6. What are the impacts of gun violence within families? How are children, parents and grandparents who have a lost family member to gun violence differentially affected?
7. What approaches to conflict resolution offer the best alternatives to gun ownership and use for groups impacted by interpersonal violence?
8. How are older adults impacted by gun ownership and/or gun violence?
9. What are current trends in gun ownership and gun use by women?
10. We encourage projects that build on findings from projects previously funded by the Foundation. See summaries of previous research projects on the Foundation website.

Eligibility:

Early-career, Faculty & Pls, Graduate, Postdoctoral

Link to RFP

The Mozilla Foundation has launched the Responsible Computing Challenge to advance the redesign of undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to support a next generation of technologists. The challenge awards range from $100k to $150k.

The Responsible Computing Challenge – supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla – fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated. By reimagining and redesigning undergraduate curricula and pedagogy to be both intentionally interdisciplinary and inclusive of diverse perspectives, the goal is to support a new wave of technologists who will:

1. understand social and historical context
2. think more critically about the design and use of technology
3. deploy cultural sensitivity to recognize when and how technology work may perpetuate or deepen inequality
4. create visions for more equitable systems across the technology sector and in related fields to ultimately build more responsible and ethical tools, applications, platforms, policies, and social norms.

Track I (up to $100,000): Track I awards up to $100,000 to a single institution for one year to support the conceptualization, development, and piloting of approaches that integrate responsible computing into existing undergraduate courses in the Humanities, Library and Information Science, Social Sciences, Computer Science, or closely related disciplines. This might look like the integration of computing topics into an existing undergraduate humanities course in ways that address the social-justice implications of relevant tech, or the integration of humanities topics into existing computing courses to highlight the kinds of knowledge needed to make responsible computing choices. Prioritized projects will broaden the diversity of perspectives in technology and represent those groups disproportionately impacted by technological harms.

Track II (up to $150,000): Track II awards up to $150,000 to partnerships across departments or institutions for one year to support the interdisciplinary conceptualization, development, and piloting of a scaled approach to integrating responsible computing into existing undergraduate courses across the Humanities, Library and Information Sciences, Social Sciences, and Computational fields. This might look, for instance, like computer science and gender and sexuality studies faculty coming together to revise multiple courses and/or allow cross-listing across departments for courses that integrate their approach to responsible computing.

Eligibility:

Faculty & Pls

The Responsible Computing Challenge is open to accredited institutions of higher education in the United States. The Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigators (PI/Co-PIs) listed on the award application must be eligible to receive and lead grants at their institution. PIs may work individually to execute the outlined concept, if funded, or with a collaborative, cross-disciplinary team with members that may come from both inside and outside of the institution of higher education. Such teams should include representatives from across departments, student researchers, industry partners and independent researchers.

Link to RFP

Apply for the 2023 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods! They will be offering over 90 courses and lectures in research methods. Nearly all of which will be offered both in person and online live with recordings available. On campus housing is available for the 3-Week Sessions and Intersession! For more information, look here!