Project Grant 1239982

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $143,000 project grant to support research titled "Women’s Political Participation in a Transitioning Democracy" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social sciences through funding research that contributes to scientific understanding and...

This $598,366 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 2022 through February 2025. The research aims to better understand citizen data practices regarding gender-based violence by empirically studying groups undertaking citizen data science on femicide. It will systematize...

This $114,410 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research by Colorado State University to explore potential barriers to women speaking up in work teams. The project aims to understand why and when women are less likely than men to express ideas, emerge as leaders, and participate in work team discussions, which can impact their career advancement and workforce contributions....

This National Science Foundation project grant of $399,998 will fund research exploring the relationship between conflict and the expansion of women's political citizenship from 1900 to 2022. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award was made on July 15, 2022 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the period through June 30, 2024. The project will examine how women's suffrage and political representation have often increased more rapidly...

This two-year, $217,923 National Science Foundation project grant funds collaborative research on human networks, sustainable development, and lived experience in a nonindustrial society. Led by researchers from multiple universities and tribal communities, the grantees will investigate relationships between spatial patterns of social interaction and quality of life over 800 years in the Southwestern United States. They will combine existing demographic, socioeconomic, health, and...

This $140,101 National Science Foundation project grant supports research examining women's access to powerful cabinet-level positions focused on security policymaking. Specifically, the award to Washington University will fund a collaborative research project analyzing causes and consequences of women's exclusion from or appointment to the defense, interior/home affairs, and foreign affairs cabinets. The research aims to test hypotheses about how women gain access to traditionally masculine...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $268,338 in funding to the University of California, Merced to investigate the role of connectivity and inclusiveness in scientific innovation and economic growth. The research aims to evaluate the impact of ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet, on reducing categorical disparities in...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $2,850,758 to the University of Colorado to extend the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Alliance. The project aims to broaden participation in computing, particularly for those marginalized by gender, through a research-based national effort to enact systemic, long-lasting...

This $288,779 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at the University of Iowa from September 2022 through August 2024 to advance understanding of gender gaps in academic science. The interdisciplinary team will analyze publication records of over 90 million researchers worldwide to develop novel topic fit indices measuring subject congruence between new collaborations and existing work. These indices...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560) provides $144,891 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to conduct a mixed-methods study examining the impact of a sexual health education program for justice-involved women and assessing the knowledge and potential biases of VCU medical students regarding sexual and reproductive healthcare for this population. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to: 1) Measure the impact of the "Women Leading...