Project Grant 2341831

Award Date 9/1/24
Completion Date 8/31/26
Dollars Obligated $116K
Funding Federal Agency
National Science Foundation
Federal Grant Program
47.075
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Nashville, TN 37203, USA

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $115,696 to Vanderbilt University to conduct an ethnographic study on the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort study in Brazil. The project aims to elucidate how developmental diversity takes shape and how values related to normal/abnormal distinctions and hierarchies of worthiness endure within scientific and activist communities. Key planned outputs include a longitudinal ethnographic database, a white paper on interdisciplinary and participatory research methods, and infrastructure to engage early career researchers in ethnographically grounded science studies. The project integrates perspectives from science and technology studies, anthropology, and developmental sciences, involving a Community Advisory Board that includes researchers from Fundação Delfim Mendes Silveira in Brazil. Through this critical developmental science approach, the research will contribute to the flow of knowledge from the Global South to the Global North.

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