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Happy New Year As 2014 comes to an end, a researcher’s work is only beginning. January is a crucial month for summer funding, and is therefore, one of the more notoriously stressful months in an academic’s year. Luckily, the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research has the resources you need to accomplish your funding goals for the new year. As the next wave of coming grant deadlines approaches, feel free to contact WIPAR with all of your grant searching needs. Wishing you a wonderful and productive spring semester, The Team at WIPAR From Wipar
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Happy New Year
As 2014 comes to an end, a researcher’s work is only beginning. January is a crucial month for summer funding, and is therefore, one of the more notoriously stressful months in an academic’s year.
Luckily, the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research has the resources you need to accomplish your funding goals for the new year.
As the next wave of coming grant deadlines approaches, feel free to contact WIPAR with all of your grant searching needs.
Wishing you a wonderful and productive spring semester,
The Team at WIPAR
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2014 Grants by the NumbersUpcoming Deadlines
Uncharted Waters for 2015News from NIJ
News from START
Grants by the NumbersAs our way of ringing in the new year, the WIPAR Team has created info-graphic with useful statistics about the foundations and agencies we get asked about the most.
Want to know more about a particular organization or program area? Contact us at [email protected], and we will be more than happy to answer any inquiries.
Upcoming DeadlinesNational Science Foundation
Political Science Program Deadline: January 15
Open Society FellowshipDeadline: Feburary 2
National Science FoundationScience of OrganizationsDeadline: February 2
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchEarly Career Research Grants
Deadline: February 2
Data for FY 2013. Source: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14003/nsf14003.pdf
Uncharted Waters for 2015
National Science FoundationScience of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)Deadline: Febuary 9, 2015
Excerpt from RFP: “The SciSIP program invites the participation of researchers from all of the social, behavioral and economic sciences... The program also supports small grants that are time-critical and small grants that are high-risk and of a potentially transformative nature.”
“The SciSIP program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy. Research funded by the program thus develops, improves and expands mod-els, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process. For example, research proposals may develop behavioral and analytical conceptualizations, frameworks or models that have applications across a broad array of SciSIP challenges, including the relationship between broader participation and innovation or creativity. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences. Researchers are also encouraged to create or improve science and engineering data, metrics and indicators reflecting current discovery, particularly proposals that demonstrate the viability of collecting and analyzing data on knowledge generation and innovation in organizations.”
For More Information See: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501084
News From NIJThe NIJ announced its funding priorities for 2015 in a series of dear colleague letters published throughout the month of December. The NIJ highlighted several topic areas which include alter-natives to incarceration, the treatment of veterans in the justice system, veterans and recidivism, indigent defense, and social science research on forensic science.
The Institute’s first wave of funding opportunities released on December 24th.
Forthcoming funding opportunities include several policy related opportunities which include boilerplate grants such as Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships, Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence, Justice Systems, and Violence Against Women.
The NIJ will also sponsor research on White-Collar Crime and Public Corruption; Abuse, Ne-glect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals; Investigation and Adjudication of Campus Sexual Assault; and “Sentinel Events” and Criminal Justice System Er-rors.
WIPAR will continue to send notifications to faculty whenever the NIJ releases updates. If you have not received our previous updates on the NIJ click here.
News From STARTSTART Consortium Director, John Sawyer, released a dear colleague letter on December 18 encouraging researchers to commercialize social science research. In the article, Sawyer suggests that commercializing research through patents and copyrights could help diversify research efforts in a market that is constantly plagued by drawn out spending bills. In the letter, Sawyer states that, “the uncertainty we face is largely the result of a political system that prioritizes checks and balances over operational continuity,” and because of this, “discontinuity becomes the norm.”
Under Sawyer’s administration, the START consortium began diversifying its network of funding sources to include federal grantmakers such as the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Department of Defense, National Institute of Justice and many others over the last four years.
In the letter, Sawyer acknowledges that commercializing research goes against the mores of academia, but also states that, if done correctly, commercialization has the potential to create more freedoms in research without fear of shareholder reaction.
“commercialization, when it is done right, is not a dirty word,” Sawyer states, “It is an oppor-tunity to engage and inform audiences we probably would not normally access otherwise.”
