Substantial Funding Opportunities from NSF Relevant to SBE Scientists

There are new funding opportunities at NSF that might be of interest to you. They are called the “Big Ideas” and they focus on critical issues in science and society. The purpose of each Big Idea is to motivate dynamic and innovative scholars to create and implement new and potentially transformative interdisciplinary approaches to some very large societal challenges.

NSF encourages:

• every social scientist,
• every behavioral scientist,
• every member of an organization who is willing to collaborate with social or behavioral scientists, and
• every scholar who is looking for new opportunities to advance science in ways that best serve the public

to think “big”.

Sociologist for Trans Justice are seeking to spread word of their nationwide survey for trans and intersex graduate students. They are reaching out to graduate students who would be willing to take this survey. Below is a link to the survey and detailed information about what and who are the Sociologists for Trans Justice. 

The National Survey of Trans & Intersex Graduate Students is open! Learn more and take the survey at: http://www.transjusticesyllabus.com/tigradsurvey/

The 13th International Conference on Occupational Stress and Health, "Work, Stress and Health 2019: What Does the Future Hold?" will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, Nov. 6-9, 2019, with preconference workshops and opening events on Nov. 6. This conference is organized by the American Psychological Association, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology.

Raleigh, NC – October 18, 2018 – Corporate training programs can be more effective when training delivery strategies are aligned with the learners’ preferences. A new research report from Training Industry, Inc. explores these learner preferences, focusing on how learners want to learn and the match between their preferences and what organizations are actually using to deliver training.

“Today’s learners have choices,” Amy DuVernet, Ph.D., director of training manager development at Training Industry, Inc. and the researcher and author of the report. “They can find information about how to best perform their jobs from a number of sources. It’s critical that training professionals, and the training function, acknowledge this reality by providing learning and development in ways that learners want to engage.”