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The Nuffield Foundation has announced the latest round of its Research Development and Analysis Fund (Outline Stage), with a deadline of 14 March 2022. Please note that the scheme has now introduced an annual call for larger, strategic, interdisciplinary projects.

Nuffield’s Funding Priorities

The Foundation prioritises rigorous and impartial research, development, and analysis projects that:

• Identify and explain the social and economic determinants of opportunity and risk across the life span, focusing in particular on early childhood adversity, transitions from adolescence to young adulthood, and social and economic well-being in adulthood and later life.
• Improve well-being for society as a whole, while ameliorating negative distributional outcomes and the greatest harms.
• Support the development of workable evidence-based solutions for policy and practice over the medium term.

The Foundation is committed to improving the design and operation of social policy, especially in those domains that they have always identified as underpinning a well-functioning society: Education, Welfare and Justice.

Please see the Guide to Applicants for further details, but priorities within each domain are as follows:

• Education:  Early years education and childcare; Skills; Teaching quality; Young people’s pathways; Educational disadvantage
• Welfare: Family dynamics and labour market outcomes; Social and economic welfare in later life; Geographical inequalities; Social and economic analysis to inform public debate
• Justice: Family and youth justice; Decision-making; Participation and rights

In general, the Foundation awards grants to projects focused on the UK context. However, applications from UK-based organisations to carry out collaborative projects involving overseas partners (and/or exploiting data relating to other countries) are permitted  where findings are likely to benefit the UK.

Standard Research, Development and Analysis grants

Research, Development and Analysis (RDA) grants normally range in size from £15,000 up to £750,000, with most lying between £50,000 and £300,000.

The Foundation supports a wide range of project types, including:

• Reviews and synthesis
• Data collection and/or analysis, whether descriptive or designed to understand causality, or both
• Pre-trial development work
• Comparison or controlled trials or evaluations
• Research translation

The Foundation occasionally makes smaller grants for work costing less than £15,000. There are options for assessing such applications on a quicker timetable than the standard one – potential applicants are asked to contact Nuffield to discuss such applications.

Larger strategic projects

In a change from previous funding calls, the Foundation has announced that it will also fund larger strategic projects as part of the RDA funding process. It welcome applications between £750,000 and £3 million for more strategic projects that take an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the most significant themes and developments that will shape the UK public policy and agenda and wider society over the next decade and beyond.

Applications at this level must also bring a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to addressing the questions they examine, including proposals for working collaboratively across research, policy and practice. As with all the work support by Nuffield, they must be connected in some way to at least one of the three core domains, but it is likely they will cut across more than one of these three areas or extend beyond them, engaging with other social policy fields.

Whilst the call for standard RDA grants has deadlines in March and September, grants over £750,000 can only be submitted for the March date.

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On May 5-6, 2022 over 500 leading behavioral scientists, policymakers, executives, and press will join Eric Johnson, Ayelet Fishbach, John List, Ellen Peters, representatives of governments and behavioral units from U.S.A. Canada, U.K., Australia, South Africa and many others to gather for the 2022 BSPA Online Conference.

All of the programming uniquely fit for digital will be hosted online with live streaming and interactive sessions from 11am-5pm (EST) on May 5th and 6th.

BSPA seeks proposals by February 7, 2022 for short (TED talk style) presentations highlighting research in five thematic areas in which behavioral scientists could have significant influence on policy. These areas are based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and include:

AREA 1: POVERTY AND WELLBEING [SDG-1 NO POVERTY, SDG-4 QUALITY EDUCATION, AND SDG-8 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH]

AREA 2: DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION [SDG-5 GENDER EQUALITY AND SDG-10 REDUCED INEQUALITIES] 

AREA 3: GLOBAL HEALTH [SDG-3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING, SDG-2 ZERO HUNGER AND SDG-56 CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION] 

AREA 4: ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY [SDG-13 CLIMATE ACTION, SDG-7 AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY, SDG-11 SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES] 

AREA 5: ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGERIAL BEHAVIORS, STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP, JUSTICE [SDG-16 PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS] 

Each short presentation session is designed to inform and influence academics, policy makers, and managers.  Presentations may demonstrate recent key research findings (potentially from multiple papers) with meaningful implications for policy and practice and need not present new work-in-progress. These presentations should not be highly technical. Click here to learn more and to submit: LINK

Conference Organizers: Craig Fox (UCLA), Suzanne Shu (Cornell University), Sim Sitkin (Duke University), and Dilip Soman (University of Toronto)

This opportunity is aimed at researchers who do not already hold a permanent academic position – please share with your early career networks and recent PhD graduates.

The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support recent PhD graduates in their effort to turn their doctoral thesis into a publishable book.

Researchers may apply from across the social sciences and the humanities. The awards are intended to provide a research stipend (to cover living costs plus reasonable research expenses) for a period of up to twelve months.

Eligibility

Scholars from within Europe are eligible to apply. Candidates must have been awarded their PhD and should be within three years of PhD award at the time of application (although career breaks may be taken into account), and should not already hold a permanent position within academia. The awards are intended as providing a stipend to allow applicants full or partial support for the conversion of their PhD thesis into a book and relief from non-academic work (including domestic care) for a period of up to one year.

The award period must begin no later than the end of December 2023, and awardees would be expected – by the end of the award period – to have produced a manuscript for submission to publishers.

A final publication contract need not be in place at the time of application. However, applicants should have developed a specific publication plan, and describe any of their preliminary inquiries to publishers.

The awards – of up to €34,000 (or GBP equivalent) – are intended to provide a stipend to allow applicants full or partial relief from non-academic duties, for a period of up to one year; alternatively, the award may be sought by those who wish to be bought-out from a non-academic employment contract (in whole or partially), with the prior consent of their current employer.

For more information – including guidance on eligible research – and to apply, please visit https://www.isrf.org/funding-opportunities/grant-competitions/fbg1/

Closing date for applications is 6pm CET on 4th February 2022.

FYI. The Jacobs Foundation invites applications for its Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship. These support early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. The relevant disciplines include, but are not limited to, educational sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, family studies, media studies, political sciences, linguistics, neurosciences and medical sciences.

Particularly encouraged to apply are scholars who seek to combine multiple levels of analysis and engage in interdisciplinary work. A special focus lies on work to understand and embrace variability in learning; promote the generation, transfer, and practical application of evidence on human learning and development or increase the capacity to scale up effective education policies and practices.

The Jacobs Foundation is especially interested in the following questions:

·         How do variations in individuals and contextual factors influence learning and development and learning outcomes?

·         How can we design for learner variability at scale to enable all children to reach their potential as learners and in life?

·         How can we produce interventions that reduce growing inequalities in children’s learning and overcome disparities in the impacts of digital technologies?

·         How can we address the role of data to help learners and teachers make informed decisions about their learning and teaching?

Young scholars who have obtained their PhD within the past 10 years are eligible to apply. Applicants must be employed at a university or other research institutions anywhere in the world.

Up to 12 fellowships are available, worth CHF 150,000 each over three years. These may be used for research activities and to partially cover salaries.

Closing date: 16 January 2022, 23.59 CET.

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Four social/personality psychology labs (see full list below) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) are recruiting graduate students interested in pursuing a PhD in Psychology starting in Fall 2022. The social/personality psychology area at UCR is regarded for its strengths in personality psychology and health and well-being. Faculty in the area have audio-visual laboratories and observation rooms and use state-of-the art assessment methods including Electronically-Activated Recorders (i.e., EAR devices), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), physiological measures, experience sampling, and innovative psychological interventions including MINDTAPP (Mind Training Application; a system and method for mindset training), among others. UCR is a world-class research university with a diverse undergraduate student body and a mission to provide routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. The graduate program in Psychology at UCR offers competitive graduate funding and student support, as well as specialized programs in Diversity & Inclusion Psychology, Health & Well-Being, and Quantitative Psychology. The campus is surrounded by mountain ranges and is only an hour away from ski slopes, surfing, and hiking in mountain and desert environments, and the weather is excellent all year round. The cost of living in Riverside is affordable relative to other cities in Southern California, and Riverside is located within a 1.5 hour drive from Los Angeles and San Diego. Interested applicants are encouraged to visit the department admissions page for more information: https://psychology.ucr.edu/graduate-study/the-application-and-admission-process/. The deadline for full admission consideration is December 1, 2021. If you would like more information about the graduate program or a specific lab, we encourage you to contact the PIs directly.

The following labs are accepting students for Fall 2022:

The Life Events Lab (ucrlifeeventslab.com, Dr. Kate Sweeny) primarily studies the experience of stressful uncertainty, like the wait for medical test results or the outcome of a professional exam. More generally, the lab addresses stress, coping, and emotions in the field and the lab, using longitudinal and experimental methods. 

The Social Neuroscience Lab (https://www.hugheslab.org/, Dr. Brent Hughes) focuses broadly on questions related to the self, social cognition, and social behavior. We use methods like functional neuroimaging, behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and experience sampling to gain a deeper insight into how people see themselves, navigate their social environments, and connect with other people. 

The Leadership and Group Dynamics Lab (https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/tomsy) is unique in its focus on Industrial Organizational Psychology. We conduct research on leadership, followership and teams, with particular focus on schemas (implicit theories), emotions, diversity, and unconscious processes and biases. We also apply our research to develop psychological interventions, such as our patent pending MINDTAPP (Mind Training Application) system and method, a mobile application that empowers people to tap their best selves via mindset training. 

The OBSERVE Lab (https://observelab.ucr.edu/, Dr. Megan Robbins) investigates how people’s daily social interactions are related to their health and well-being. The naturalistic observation method we primarily use is the EAR, which periodically records snippets of sound in people’s momentary environments. We are currently focusing on observing the social interactions and well-being of same- and different-gender couples.

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Megan Robbins
megan.robbins@ucr.edu

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Call for Papers: Intersectionality in Stigma and Health Research A Special Issue of Stigma and Health

Special Issue Editor: Nicole M. Else-Quest, PhD

Stigma and Health welcomes submissions for consideration in a special issue on new and innovative research incorporating intersectionality in the study of stigma and physical and mental health.

Intersectionality is increasingly invoked and analyzed in psychological science, particularly in research with people from historically excluded or minoritized groups. It is often used to focus attention on members of multiply-marginalized groups (e.g., women with disabilities), who may be made invisible when social categories or dimensions are analyzed independently or in isolation and without context.

While the research topics in the special issue will be diverse to reveal the broad scope of possibilities for intersectionality, articles must share an explicitly intersectional approach and lens. The issue will be structured around three foci:

• Intersectional concepts and measurement
• Giving voice to multiply-marginalized groups
• Empowerment and evaluation

More information: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/sah/intersectionality-stigma-health-research

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Please contact the special issue editor, Nicole Else-Quest, with all questions.

About the journal: Stigma and Health publishes peer-reviewed, original research articles that include tests of hypotheses about the form and impact of stigma, examination of strategies to decrease stigma’s effects, and survey research capturing stigma in populations.

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Because of the forthcoming retirement of two Executive Editors for The Journal of Social Psychology (Impact Factor: 2.7), the remaining Executive Editorial Team (Bradley Okdie, Incoming Managing Editor; Cynthia Willis-Esqueda and William “Ivey” Mackenzie, Executive Editors) seek motivated and qualified academics interested in serving in the role of Executive Editor for a 3-year contract beginning January 2022.

Executive Editors at The Journal of Social Psychology guide advancement of the journal throughout the review process. They determine whether a manuscript will be sent to reviewers and send prompt decision letters for manuscripts that are desk rejected. For manuscripts sent for review, Executive Editors identify reviewers, then make interim and final decisions that synthesize available reviewer comments. Over the course of a single year, Executive Editors manage between 100-125 manuscripts. Executive Editors are expected to complete their tasks in a timely and professional manner and to attend quarterly conference calls.

Qualifications:

Executive Editors should be established researchers in their field of inquiry with multiple publications in top tiered journals. Prospective Executive Editors should have extensive reviewing experience as a Consulting Editor or similar role, with a preference for individuals with prior experiences as Associate or Executive Editors. Additionally, although Executive Editors often oversee manuscripts that are outside their primary specialty area, we try to match manuscripts as closely as possible. To that end, we welcome applicants with wide expertise, but we are primarily interested in individuals with backgrounds including one or more of the following specialty areas or skill sets: (a) Groups, (b) Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Stigma, (b) Quantitative Expertise including Multilevel Modeling (c) Organizational Behavior, (c) Volunteerism, (d) Morality, and (e) Psychology and Law.

Benefits: Executive Editors receive a modest stipend that will be determined partly by the number on the final board. Editors also receive gratis online access and print copies of JSP.

Applications:

Applications must include the following: (a) a two-page letter of intent stating qualifications and commitment to continue improving the quality of the journal while advancing current initiatives to increase the science transparency of published manuscripts, and (b) a curriculum vitae detailing relevant qualifications including prior reviewer/editorial experience. Applications should be emailed to Bradley Okdie (Okdie.2@osu.edu) with “Application for JSP Executive Editors Position” as the subject. We will review materials starting on October 1st 2021 and continue until the positions are filled. We are interested in two new board members depending on interest and qualifications. Please address any questions to Brad Okdie.

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Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne

Special issue: Building a socially and culturally responsive psychology

Special issue editors:

• Dr. Vina Goghari, editor, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
• Dr. Anusha Kassan, editorial board member, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienn

Deadline: December 1, 2021

More information: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cap/building-socially-culturally-responsive-psychology

Psychology as a discipline is facing unprecedented socio-political pressures for systemic change in the breadth and depth of our theories and conceptualizations, scholarship, training, and pathways to the profession with a focus on anti-oppression, anti-racism, decolonization, critical psychology, diversity and intersectionality, social justice, and human rights.

This special issue seeks to honour and highlight the voices of, multiple ways of knowing, and systemic conceptualizations that extend our traditional methodologies and include, but are not limited to, Indigenous, Black, racialized, international, intercultural, and minoritized perspectives.

Potential manuscripts could focus on:

• the impact of identity on mental health
• equity, diversity, and inclusion models of training in psychology
• identity-based discrimination and harassment in the workplace
• everyday racism and microaggressions
• different ways in which ableism manifests in psychological practice, training, and research
• decolonizing ethical frameworks
• nonwestern conceptualizations of psychological phenomena
• Indigenous ways of knowing
• intergenerational trauma in various racialized and minoritized communities
• the needs and experiences of newcomer communities, and so on

We encourage submissions from all disciplines of psychology and affiliated fields. We hope these will include representation from authors with both lived and scholarly experience as Indigenous, racialized, and/or minoritized individuals.

About the editor Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Psychology: Dr. Vina Goghari, seeks to, among other things, broaden the diversity of viewpoints and methodological approaches covered in the journal. Learn more about Dr. Goghari’s goals.

About the journal: Published in partnership with the Canadian Psychological Association, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne publishes generalist articles in areas of theory, research, practice, education, and policy that are of interest to a broad cross-section of psychologists. The journal accepts submissions in either English or French. Access the journal.

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The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is now accepting proposals for an open-call, peer-reviewed Special Issue (10-16 articles) or Special Section (4-8 articles) to be published in late 2022. 

Interested Guest Editors are invited to submit proposals for a special issue that would openly recruit novel articles on a particular topic, up to September 30, 2021. Depending on the topic, requested articles can be theoretical, methodological, integrative, report original empirical findings, or a mixture of these. Proposals should be compatible with JESP’s mission to report, in particular, experimental social psychology research as well as theory and methodological considerations that bear on this kind of research.

Deadline for proposals: 30 Sept 2021

More information: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-experimental-social-psychology/call-for-papers/jesp-call-for-special-issue-proposals

Independent Social Research Foundation flexible grants for small groups

The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support independent-minded researchers to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems. Such work would be unlikely to be funded by existing funding bodies.

The Foundation intends to award on a competitive basis, to candidates of sufficient merit, a number of grants providing flexible support (for instance: relief from teaching and/or administration, research and travel expenses, fieldwork and practical work) for a period of (up to) one year for the activities of a small research group.

The awards are intended as enabling one or more short periods of face-to-face joint group work such as workshops, working-in-pairs, or short academic visits over a period of up to one year, and must be taken up (i.e. commence) no later than end of December 2022.

The amount of an award depends on the nature of the work proposed and individual circumstances – the ISRF expects applications for grants up to a maximum of €5,850 (or GBP equivalent).†

Scholars from within Europe are eligible to apply as Principal Investigator(s) to lead a small group of 2-10 scholars (which may include graduate students). Principal applicants should hold a PhD and will normally have a permanent appointment at an institution of higher education and research. Applications may be made by those whose sole or principal post is part-time equivalent. Independent scholars with an academic affiliation may also apply.

Applicants should consult the Criteria as set out in the Further Particulars (see link below) and show that they meet them. Applicants should follow the Application procedure and should present their Proposal in the format specified there.

Deadline: 5pm BST, 8 October 2021

More information: https://www.isrf.org/funding-opportunities/grant-competitions/fg8/