CFP: Trauma & Practice (Global Conference)

Call for Papers: 1st Global Conference Trauma - Theory and Practice (Monday 14th March – Wednesday 16th March 2011, Prague, Czech Republic) This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding individual and collective trauma, both in terms of practice, theory and lived reality. Trauma studies have emerged from its foundation in …

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CFP: Global Health, Year of Nurse (ΣΘΤ)

Global Health and the International Year of the Nurse, Sigma Theta Tau International, Region 15 Fall Meeting, October 16, 2010, Saint Anselm College at N.H. Institute of Politics 9-3 pm Program Objectives Recognize the commitment of the profession of nursing in promoting health in our communities, locally and globally. Gain insight in regard to the …

Joint Authorship

Inside Higher Ed's columnist Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University) offers "The Case for Collaboration." Joint authorship, either at the data-gathering or at the data-analysis stage, offers the graduate student or junior colleague an opportunity to be coached through the research, writing, and publication processes. Hargittai offers advice on how to make this partnership successful.

CFP: CES

Do you have products from community-based participatory research, service-learning or other community-engaged projects focused on immigrant and refugee health that are in forms other than journal articles? CES4Health.info is an online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing and disseminating diverse products of community-engaged scholarship (CES). The results of CES are often disseminated through diverse products that are accessible …

NSF Grand Challenges

As part of its long-term strategic planning effort, the National Science Foundation's Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) invites researchers to submit brief papers (up to 2000 words) describing grand challenges for the SBE fields over the next 10-20 years. The SBE Directorate funds the bulk of psychological research within NSF. The …

CFP: Health Rights, Global Perspective

Health Rights in Global Historical Perspective: Call For Papers (Conference at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 17-18 February 2011) The idea that individuals have rights within the context of health has deep roots. The right to health was amongst the 'rights of man' established during the French Revolution and patients' …

Rockquemore: Assess and Adjust

In the final installment of her summer series on professional academic writing in Inside Higher Ed, Kerry Ann Rockquemore summarizes the main points of the ten-week series and advises readers to assess their summer progress: What goals did (and did not) get accomplished this summer? How consistent have I been in my daily writing routine? …

Inside Higher Ed: New NSF Agenda, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

In news of interest to nurse researchers, according to today's issue of Inside Higher Ed: Seeking to move "beyond near-term funding cycles," leaders of the National Science Foundation briefed sociologists here Sunday about plans to create a strategy to support the social sciences over the next decade. Myron Gutmann, assistant director for the social, behavioral …

CFP: Canadian Science Policy Conference

The Canadian Science Policy Centre invites proposals for presentations at the upcoming Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC 2010) in Montreal, QC, from October 20-22, 2010. CSPC is an annual event, specifically designed as a multi-sector forum for fostering science policy discourse in Canada. Those who attend, organize, and fund CSPC come from diverse sectors of …

CFP: International Conference on Health, Wellness and Society

International Conference on Health, Wellness and Society (20-22 January, 2011 at the University California-Berkeley, CA., USA) This conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of issues at the intersection of human physiology and the social life conditions. Contributions range from broad scientific, sociological, philosophical and policy explorations, to detailed studies of particular physiological …