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The SBE directorate encourages collaboration between U.S. scientists working on common projects with scientists from other countries. A particularly useful mechanism for pursuing collaborative research is through parallel review and parallel funding. Under this mechanism, the U.S. collaborator submits a description of the work and a budget for the U.S. activities to the NSF, while the partner submits a parallel or even identical proposal to his/her funding agency along with a budget for the collaborative activities. Under such circumstances, the NSF proposal undergoes the usual review process as does the non-NSF proposal. This can be a win-win situation, because each funder is getting more net research for their partial support of the overall project. The SBE directorate currently has a collaborative funding opportunity agreement with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK. If you are interested in learning more about this, please review the AHRC-NSF/SBE Memorandum of Understanding at: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/SBE_AHRC_MOU.pdf.
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A Unique Panel Data Set Just Released: A Rural Indigenous Population in the Bolivian Amazon Integrating to the National and International Market Economy The Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS) has just released a unique annual panel data set 2002-2006 (inclusive) that follows a native Amazonian horticultural and foraging society experiencing rapid integration to the rest of the world. The study of those changes through panel observations can yield very valuable information about how processes such as globalization, market exposure, or trade opening affect cultural (identity, local ecological knowledge), economic (income, consumption), psychological (happiness), and biological (health, nutrition, growth) dimensions of well-being. Funded largely by the program of Cultural Anthropology of the National Science Foundation, the panel study has been tracking about 1,500 native Amazonians in about 250 households of 13 villages along the Maniqui River, Department of Beni, Bolivia, and has introduced agricultural development projects. TAPS surveys take place every year during June-August. The first five-years of data, 2002-2006 (inclusive), are now available to the public in STATA. TAPS has been receiving widespread attention and was recently featured in The Economist and a BBC report. Research from TAPS has appeared in journals in human biology, anthropology, history, psychology, and development economics. To date, the TAPS data have been mainly used in cross-sectional analysis, but the data is now ready for use as a panel. To request access to the 2002-2006 panel data set and its documentation, go to the following web site at (http://people.brandeis.edu/~rgodoy/research/pgs/panel.html) or contact Ricardo Godoy (781-736-2784, rgodoy@brandeis.edu). The Report on the Expedited Review of Social and Behavioral Research Activities was released in June, 2008, by the NSTC Human Subjects Research Committee. This report discusses the expedited review procedure allowed under Federal regulations for certain categories of research involving human subjects. It offers suggestions as to how institutions might implement successful expedited review procedures, identifies various types of common social and behavioral research studies that fall within the categories of research eligible for expedited review, and offers some illustrations of those types. The goal of the document is to help researchers, administrators, and reviewers recognize research activities that are eligible for expedited review so that they may avoid needless misunderstandings and delays in the review process.
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Cognitive Neuroscience
(NSF
06-557)
Full Proposal:
January 14, 2009
Cultural Anthropology
(PD
98-1390)
Full Proposal:
January 15, 2009
Developmental and Learning Sciences
(PD
08-1698)
Full Proposal:
January 15, 2009
Geography and Regional Science
(PD
98-1352)
Full Proposal:
January 15, 2009
Law and Social Sciences
(PD
98-1372)
Full Proposal:
January 15, 2009
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