By Juliana Restivo
International Association for The Study of Sexuality, Culture, & Society – Research Fellowship
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
2016-2017
IASSCS-FORD FOUNDATION
Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship
Introduction
IASSCS seeks to strengthen the field of social and cultural research on sexuality globally, including the development of research capacity, giving priority to the crucial need for diversity in this field of inquiry. Its mission is informed by the principles of social justice and human rights, with a focus on sexual rights and gender equality, as expressed in documents such as the Cairo Programme of Action, CEDAW and the UNGASS Declaration on HIV/AIDS.
IASSCS is pleased to announce a small research grants competition for emerging researchers, with the objective to promote research capacity development and research dissemination, prioritizing research issues in the Global South.
The IASSCS Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship
A total of 5 small grants will be offered to early career researchers, with said grants to be optimally awarded across the five regions constituting the Association (see regions below). These grants are intended to develop research in, or related to, the Global South and to encourage diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding sexuality.
For the purposes of this program, early career researchers refers to graduate students within academic institutions, or to individuals based within organizations that have existing research capacity. Each applicant is required to demonstrate that her/his submitted proposal will either result in the completion of a Ph.D. degree, a peer-reviewed journal publication, or (for non-academically based applicants) is likely to contribute to strengthening sexuality research capacity in a host institution.
This research grants program will:
- Assist early career researchers in:
- The completion of a graduate degree, the subject of which focuses on sexuality-related issues, or
- The undertaking of research that contributes to the strengthening of research capacity within their organisation;
- Support and encourage early career researchers to share their research results, and broaden knowledge on sexuality issues at an international level;
- Support the development of social and cultural approaches to sexuality research in the five regions constituting the Association; and
- Promote the development of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding sexuality.
IASSCS regions are:
- Southeast Asia, South and Central Asia and the Middle East;
- Latin America;
- Africa;
- North America and Europe; and
- Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and East Asia.
IASSCS especially encourages the submission of applications by participants of previous Post-Conference Training sessions (Dublin 2015, Buenos Aires 2013, Madrid 2011, Hanoi 2009, and Lima 2007.)
Application Requirements
- IASSCS Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship welcomes proposals from early career researchers whose research focuses on social and cultural research on sexuality, with a particular emphasis on the Global South;
- Applicants are expected either to be affiliated with a university and progressing toward a Ph.D. degree, or to be based within an organisation that has existing research capacity;
- IASSCS will fund research proposals representing either new work or an ongoing research projects that is at a very early stage of fieldwork — e.g. beginning to recruit research participants, or starting field observations, or beginning document or text collection for literature reviews. As well, projects that require extra funding to complete their study are also eligible. Note that IASSCS will only fund ongoing research when a complete budget for the project is submitted and the research phase or portion that will be supported with IASSCS funds is clearly specified.
The IASSCS Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowships will have duration of nine (09) months. IASSCS will only award grants to sole investigators; proposals from co-investigators are not eligible. Funds awarded may be used to cover expenses relating to: fieldwork travel; enacting research plans; and/or analysis and communication/dissemination. Scholarship funds cannot be used for the purchase of equipment, institutional overheads or any other expenses not directly related to conduct the research.
Submission Deadline: Monday, October 17th, 2016 at midnight
Application Process
Application documents must be written in English only. To apply to the IASSCS Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship, please send by e-mail the following documents:
- A brief research proposal (no less than 4 pages and no more than 6 pages) including:
- Research subject (topic or title),
- The research question(s): Please clearly answer the question: what are or will you be researching?
- Proposed research methodology: Clearly define if you will be working with human research participants subjects, or conducting textual, archival, or secondary analysis of existing database,
- Expected research outcome: What do you expect the research to achieve?
- Detailed information as to how the grant will be used to support the research,
- A statement clarifying how human research ethics approval will be sought, granted and from which institution and which body (e.g. Internal Review Board, Human Ethics Committee, IRB, HEC),
- A statement on how this application prioritizes research issues in the Global South,
- A statement on how this project will assist in developing sexuality research capacity at your host institution,
- A statement confirming who will mentor you throughout the research process, either in the capacity of a research supervisor or work-based supervisor (see: Requirements during and at the Conclusion of the Research Grant Period below),
- Reference list (no more than one page, in addition to the 4-6 pages of the proposal). Your proposal can include photographs and/or charts;
- A nine (09) monthly timeline detailing activities and expected periodic accomplishments;
- An estimated budget (between a minimum of 3,000 USD and a maximum of 5,000 USD) that includes the following budget items:
- A maximum of USD 1,500 for researcher’s stipend,
- A maximum of USD 3,000 for research expenses as outlined above,
- A minimum of USD 500 to contribute toward anticipated expenses to attend the 2017 IASSCS Conference (see below);
- Any and all additional funds that have been obtained to support the research project, if applicable;
- An electronic, signed letter of recommendation from the institutional research advisor, supervisor, or a senior researcher activist in your field of interest, indicating the institution’s support for the research and attesting to the applicant’s skills and capacity to carry out the research project effectively; and
- Your Curriculum Vitae (maximum 3 pages long.)
Successful applicants will receive:
- Research grant in the amount of minimum $3,000, to maximum $5,000 USD;
- Venue for dissemination and/or publication of research findings at the 2017 IASSCS conference which will include specific sessions on research from IASSCS grantees; and
- Feedback pertaining to the successful application from a member of the IASSCS Research and Education Committee.
Presentation at 2017 IASSCS Conference:
All grant recipients will be required to present their research findings (final and/or in progress) at the 2017 IASSCS conference in Bangkok. Each grantee is expected to submit an abstract to, and present at, the IASSCS conference in 2017 depending on the progress and timetable of the research project. IASSCS will give each grantee a registration fee waiver for the IASSCS Conference if their abstract has been submitted on time and has been accepted by the Conference Program Committee. If awarded, a minimum of USD 500 of the grant money must be reserved towards IASSCS conference attendance costs and earmarked as such in the submitted budget.
Grantees are asked to include in their conference presentation findings of their work in relation to the 2017 conference theme (as applicable), “Breaking Boundaries: Sexuality, Gender, Reproduction, Health and Rights,” (See 2017 conference details on IASSCS website).
Relevant 2017 Asia Regional Conferences
For those interested in attending conferences to be held in the region close to the date of the IASSCS conference:
Association for Asian Studies: 24-27 June 2017 Seoul
Requirements During and at the Conclusion of the Research Grant Period
During the research period, each grantee will be expected to maintain close communication with their local (university or workplace based) mentor as specified in their application. Regular supervision sessions need to be planned (e.g. every 2 weeks or monthly) and a supervisor’s report (one page only each time) needs to accompany the reports from the grantee required below.
Grantees will be required to provide one interim progress report during the program due 6 months following receipt of the grant) and one final report upon completion of the project, due 30 days from project end date as stated on the timeline. The progress report should include a report from his or her supervisor and a narrative and financial report identifying specific expenses covered by the grant, in accordance with the budget submitted by the grantee with the proposal application.
Grantees will be required to acknowledge IASSCS Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship in all presentations and publications of research results.
To learn about previous fellows’ work, please go to: http://iasscs.org/small-research-grants-iasscs-emerging-scholars-international-fellowship-program
Submit all documents to iasscs.secretariat@iasscs.org by the deadline of October 17th with a subject line stating: IASSCS Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship.
IASSCS reserves the right to decline proposals if authors do not strictly follow the submission guidelines or applications are incomplete.
Scholarship awards will be announced in December 2016
Fellowship tenure: January 1, 2017 to September 30, 2017
SPH Stories Submissions deadline: Oct. 7th
Submission deadline Friday, October 7.
SPH Stories is an initiative to engage our community in the power and importance of narrative to public health. Open to faculty, staff, and students! Use your voice in your own way - poetry, spoken word, song, etc. - to tell a story that matters.
Like tweeting? Interested in the The Report of The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies coming out in November?
Are you interested in The Report being released by The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies coming out this November? Do you like to tweet and want to help spread the word about The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines Policies via twitter and other social media platforms?
Contact Dr. Veronika Wirtz or Juliana Restivo for more information (compensation may be possible)
What can be done to prevent intimate partner violence – save the date! 10/7
Get involved with Bantwana: Together to End Violence Against Women
Women in Tanzania experience alarmingly high levels of intimate partner violence, a key driver of poor mental & physical health, including HIV. IPV can be prevented.
Who can Play? Gender, Race, Sports, and Bodies. – Seminar accepting applications
The Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality (GCWS) is still accepting applications for our October/November micro-seminar: Who can Play? Gender, Race, Sports, and Bodies.
This seminar will happen at Tufts University and is open to GCWS member institution graduate students, seniors in WGS or related majors and faculty. It is one of several graduate-level micro-seminars that the GCWS is offering this year that is focused on specific topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Interested individuals can apply online at http://web.mit.edu/gcws/courses/application.microseminar.html or contact Andi Sutton, GCWS Program Manager, for more information (arsutton@mit.edu or 617-324-2085).
For a list of micro-seminars being offered next semester, visit our website: http://web.mit.edu/gcws/courses/microseminars-about.html
International Nurse and Physician Educators (Visiting Faculty) Wanted | Apply to the Global Health Service Partnership
The Global Health Service Partnership, Seed Global Health’s flagship program with the Peace Corps and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), partners with countries in sub-Saharan Africa to tackle critical health care provider shortages by sending U.S. physicians and nurses to serve as volunteer educators and work alongside local faculty to educate and mentor the next generation of medical and nursing professionals.
OVERVIEW
The Global Health Service Partnership is accepting applications from U.S. physicians and nurses interested in serving as visiting faculty at medical and nursing schools in Liberia, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda. GHSP is an opportunity to make a lasting impact in strengthening health care delivery in resource-limited settings. By helping train the next generation of local physicians and nurses, GHSP Physician and Nurse Educators make a sustainable investment in improving health outcomes in areas with the greatest need.
ELIGIBILITY
Volunteers are deployed for one-year assignments beginning in July 2017. Physician applicants must be board-eligible or board-certified in a clinical specialty. Nurse applicants must have a BSN and at least three years of clinical experience (advanced degrees and specialized board certification are preferred). All applicants must be U.S. citizens and have an active U.S. clinical license.
BENEFITS
GHSP is a Peace Corps Response program, which offers high-impact assignments for qualified professionals. Benefits for volunteers include transportation to and from country of service, monthly living stipends, housing, comprehensive medical care, a readjustment allowance, and paid vacation days. Seed Global Health offers debt repayment awards of up to $30,000 for qualified volunteers.
Contact: nurses@seedglobalhealth.org or physicians@seedglobalhealth.org
Global Health Ideas Repository – Submit your ideas!
See the following message from Global Health Alumna Katie Clifford, MPH:
"I've been working closely with Professor Muhammad Zaman of the BU biomedical engineering department on the the Global Health Ideas Repository (GHIR) website, a forum that connects educators, innovators, and students from various disciplines interested in tackling global health challenges from an engineering perspective. Through the site, you can submit a challenge, explore submissions, share ideas on solutions, offer expertise advice, and incorporate challenges into curriculum (via projects, homework assignments, exam questions, etc.).
We are currently looking for submissions of global health challenges from those who have been working in the field. We'd love to get thoughts and views on what problems public health practitioners are really facing in the field. I, myself, am an alum of the BUSPH global health concentration, and did my practicum in Haiti in 2011. I returned to campus with a new view on the real public health problems in that region, and would have loved the opportunity to connect with public health-minded engineers on potential solutions to those problems."
Submit your ideas here
Job opening at Pathfinder International: Technical Advisor for Program Documentation
Program Overview
The Technical Services Unit is comprised of three teams – the Integrated System Strengthening Team, the Implementation Learning Team, and the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Team. The Technical Advisor I for Program Documentation will sit within the Implementation Learning Team. This team fosters intentional critical thinking about Pathfinder’s programs for improving the quality of implementation through routinely capturing, sharing, adapting, and applying knowledge in Pathfinder programming. The Implementation Learning Team covers program learning, knowledge management, and technical documentation.
Position Purpose
The position will develop technical publications in close collaboration with TSU’s Technical Advisor II for Program Learning and Technical Advisor I for Program Documentation, conducting interviews with field- and headquarters-based staff, reviewing and analyzing available program information including quantitative performance data and qualitative information. The position will synthesize and analyze these points of information to develop coherent, case study-like technical discussion of projects’ technical approaches, their design and the contexts to which they were designed to respond, their implementation, performance, and the lessons and recommendations that can be derived from projects’ experiences for consideration by implementers and decision-makers seeking to attempt similar technical approaches in future contexts. On an as-needed basis, this position will also develop short, web-based content.
Key Responsibilities
- Write original content for publications highlighting project implementation experiences, challenges, lessons learned, and accomplishments, ensuring content dialogues with relevant global literature and discussion specific to the publication's given technical SRHR focus area.
- Work with project leads and country teams to capture critical concepts for articulation to external audiences; as well as supplementary information for internal organizational learning purposes.
- Advise on targeted dissemination strategies to ensure technical publications reach priority audiences.
- Work with Technical Advisors, Program Directors, and External Relations staff to prioritize products to be developed and their corresponding timelines;
- Participate in development and monitoring of publications timelines to ensure deadlines are met;
- Work closely with editor and graphic designer to produce and finalize products;
Prepare summaries to announce products on project website and via social media channels; - Under guidance of other technical advisors within TSU, develop skills of Pathfinder field staff in production of technical publications.
- Work with headquarters and field staff to utilize lessons captured in technical publications to inform practice and programs.
- Work closely with the ISL Team to advance program learning at Pathfinder, insert a learning agenda into projects, and document salient lessons generated by projects.
- Disseminate program learning at regional and international professional meetings.
- Edit Pathfinder's technical documents as needed (e.g., conference abstracts, presentations).
- Coordinate dissemination of technical publications to appropriate target audiences.
- Increase Pathfinder’s technical visibility through contributing to social media, including participating in technical listserv discussions, writing blog posts, and contributing to other social media platforms.
- Presenting on behalf of Pathfinder at external technical events, including conferences, webinars and other technical events hosted by Pathfinder or partner organizations.
Basic Requirements
- Required Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Public Administration or related field;
- Minimum of three years progressively responsible work related to Public Health, International Relations, Development Studies, Women's Studies, Communications, or related field (two year's experience will be acceptable if candidate has a Master's degree in Public Health related field).
- Excellent writing skills, with an ability to write technical content clearly, concisely, and in an engaging manner, drawing from a variety of data sources under tight timelines;
- Familiarity with design of visual representation of data, including diagrams, charts, and graphs;
Qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills; - Ability to write technical content clearly and compellingly, drawing from a variety of data sources and working under tight timelines;
- Excellent organizational skills with an emphasis on being thorough, detail-oriented, with ability to multi-task and meet deadlines;
- Excellent computer skills to include proficiency with Microsoft Office products;
- Fluent in written and spoken English;
- Ability to travel internationally up to 20%;
- Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Pathfinder International.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in related field strongly preferred;
- Previous experience studying or working in a developing country or countries;
- Editing experience a plus;
- Fluency in French, Portuguese, or other language;
- Familiarty with Adobe InDesign a plus.
“Humanitarian Response: the good, the bad, and the ugly” 10/5
Wednesday October 5, 2016
9:30-10:30am
Yawkey Basement Conference Room
Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy, MD, MPH is the Deputy Director of Global Disaster Response at the MGH Center for Global Health. She will be giving Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds entitled "Humanitarian Response: the good, the bad, and the ugly"
Though this event is the Medical School Grand Rounds, MPH students with a Global Health interest are invited to attend!
Any questions email:
Gabrielle A. Jacquet MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Director, Global Health, Boston Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency
Assistant Director, Global Health Programs, Boston University School of Medicine
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health
Global Environmental Health Speaker Series – Every Friday from 12:45-1:45pm
Globally, many low and middle income countries (LMICs) are confronted with disproportionate exposures to a variety of pollutants. Currently, these include contaminated drinking water, indoor air pollution, ambient air pollution, heavy metals, pesticides, and electronic and other hazardous wastes. In many cases, these chemical pollutants have replaced infectious disease agents as the greatest threats to public health in LMICs. As a result of these changes in threats from specific types of exposure, the spectrum of public health concerns in these countries has expanded beyond the traditional challenges of diarrhea, pneumonia, and parasitic and vector-borne diseases to include developmental disorders, birth defects, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental health problems, and pediatric cancer. Improved public health practice and public health policies in LMICs can help protect the public from environmental exposures that contribute to the double burden of infectious and chronic diseases.
The Fall 2016 Gijs van Seventer Seminar Series will explore these chemical and infectious determinants of global environmental health from the perspectives of science, policy, and practice. The seminar will also examine the application of research results in the development of environmental policy, and the approaches and interventions that effectively promote global public health.
