This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to provide peer mentorship workshops for junior women scholars in international relations. The $127,124 award to the University of California, San Diego will fund the "Journeys in World Politics" workshop program, which has mentored young women scholars since 2004. The project will host annual 3-day workshops supporting 18-20 participants,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $115,189 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to host annual three-day peer-mentorship workshops for junior women scholars in international relations. The project aims to promote high-quality scholarship and increase the success of mentored women in academia by fostering professional networks, providing feedback and support, disseminating information, and encouraging...
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...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,998 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant funds a research project titled "Political Geography, Electoral Institutions, and the Evolution of Women's Voting Patterns in Rich Democracies." This project aims to challenge existing narratives about women's political behavior after suffrage by investigating how electoral systems and political...
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 $961,684 awarded on October 1, 2021 will fund research and dissemination activities under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) through October 31, 2023. Iowa State University is the primary awardee and will partner with Education Development Center and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on subawards to study the experiences of successful doctoral students from underrepresented groups in mathematics. Through in-depth interviews...
This Project Grant award, valued at $290,325.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to understand the experiences and career trajectories of women in non-tenure track faculty roles in engineering. The key objectives are to investigate how women graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, and tenure-track faculty perceive and navigate their academic career paths, in order to identify mechanisms and interventions...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) will provide $200,000 in funding to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research examining how organizations have sought to resolve international crises and strengthen governance and trust globally. The research will trace efforts from the end of World War I to the present, drawing on history, international relations, sociology, and political science to understand the...