The Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History will award up to $12,500 to support annual fellowships for applicants who will perform new research at the National Archives to elevate women’s history. The Fund will support one to three annual fellowships for emerging and established historians, journalists, authors, or graduate students who perform and publish new research to elevate women’s history using the records held by the National Archives. 

Application Window: November 1, 2023 through May 15, 2024

See the National Archives Foundation website for complete information.

RAND's Summer Associate Program introduces outstanding graduate students in sociology and demography or related fields to the RAND Corporation, an institution that conducts research on a wide range of domestic and international social policy issues as well as national security problems.

The summer 2024 program will be a hybrid model including in-person work at one of RAND’s four offices (including DC) with remote flexibility or working fully remote from where you live.

All applications are due by December 4, 2023.

For complete information, see the online listing.

The National Science Foundation is seeking qualified candidates for a Social Scientist (Program Director) within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) in Alexandria, VA.

The Science, Technology and Innovation Analysis (STI-A) Program Director plans, administers, and evaluates the overall STI-A program area. This position oversees all of NCSES analysis products and staff, including the creation, production, and dissemination of two congressionally mandated reports: Science and Engineering Indicators and STEM and Diversity: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities.

Closing date for applications is November 27. The complete job listing is online.

Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) invites applications for a Public Health Pre-Faculty Fellow to be appointed as a full-time post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Public Health beginning in August 2024. This fellowship involves an initial three-year appointment subject to the successful outcome of annual reviews. They seek an active and engaged colleague with demonstrated research, teaching, and service interests in eliminating health disparities and social inequalities.

For complete information, see the online job listing

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program provides U.S. educators in the arts, social sciences and humanities with opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. In 2024 summer seminars will be offered in Finland, Thailand, and Colombia.

Deadline to apply: January 4, 2024

Visit the program website for more information.

The AERA-NSF Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data sets in their research. The aim of the program is to advance fundamental knowledge of relevance to STEM education policy, foster significant science using education data, promote equity in STEM, and build research capacity in education and learning.

Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2023

Visit the program website for more information.

The Department of Health, Society, and Behavior at the University of California-Irvine Program in Public Health is seeking candidates interested in writing and policy structure for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow. This candidate will report to Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala, and work within an interdisciplinary research group that focuses on cardio- and cerebrovascular health outcomes within multiethnic communities and utilizes community-engaged research principles. The postdoctoral scholar position is a full-time, 2-year position with the possibility of an extension conditional on satisfactory performance.

Applications will be reviewed beginning Friday, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Complete information is available here

The NSF Build and Broaden Program in the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences will host its second annual program symposium on November 2 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm EST.

Build and Broaden aims to broaden participation in the social, behavioral and economic sciences through support for research, training and research infrastructure at minority-serving institutions, including partnerships with and among those institutions. 

More information about the program and symposium is available here.

To advance the goals of the NIH Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative, this NIH Research Career Enhancement Award (K18) invites experienced investigators in maternal morbidity and mortality research seeking to expand their research programs through the acquisition of new skills and knowledge in the area of intimate partner (and related) violence (IPV) to work with their institutions to submit an application for support. The program will support research training and career development experiences and a small-scale research project that will provide experienced investigators with the scientific competencies required to integrate IPV and related violence constructs, theories, and/or interventions into their ongoing research efforts. Eligible candidates are independent investigators at any faculty rank or level.

Deadline is December 2

Notice of Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-OD-24-001

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of the David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship. The two-year Bell Fellowship is an interdisciplinary, postdoctoral training program designed for researchers and practitioners in the fields of population sciences and/or population health. 

The deadline to apply is Thursday, November 30, 2023 at noon EST.

For detailed information and to apply, visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/cpds or contact popcenter@hsph.harvard.edu