Social Science Research Council Invites Applications for China Environment and Health Initiative
The Social Science Research Council's China Environment and Health Initiative has announced the fourth round of its Collaborative Grants Program, which is designed to stimulate the generation and dissemination of policy and practice-oriented social science research on environment and health in China.
Up to fifteen grants between $5,000 and 15,000 (for a total of $100,000) will be awarded to applicants at Chinese institutions. Grants will provide supplementary funds to enable collaboration across disciplines and between research institutions and government or civil society organizations.
Funding is available for projects that work to integrate environment or health perspectives into research currently focused on a single domain by sharing existing data or conducting limited additional data collection; develop a new focus on environment and health within the context of ongoing research on development; broaden the scope of analysis through collaboration with partners who bring additional disciplinary perspectives or international experience; or work with NGO or government partners to make existing research more accessible and useful.
Each project must address an environmental health problem that affects a substantial number of people and must be useful in generating or disseminating knowledge that will inform policy or the work of government or civil society actors. In order to ensure feasibility, applicants must demonstrate the necessary access to data, or relationships with local communities or government agencies, to conduct the project successfully. If the project is being carried out at the local level, researchers must either live and work in the same province, or otherwise demonstrate how the project will build local capacity to work on environment and health issues.
Proposals must be submitted by a Chinese academic institution (university, college, or other research organization) or civil society organization with a demonstrated commitment to working on environment and/or health issues; and be structured as a collaboration that involves researchers with different disciplinary expertise, including at least one social science discipline, or as a collaboration between a research institution and a government department or NGO. Projects may, but are not required, to involve collaboration with an international partner with relevant expertise.
Visit the SSRC Web site for the complete 2011 Request for Proposals, information on previously funded projects, and proposal submission instructions.
