Jobs

The University of Mannheim seeks two Sociology tenured full-professors, a Chair in Social Research Methods and a Chair in Economic or Organisational Sociology.
Applications including a CV and list of publications should be sent until 12 September 2008 to:
The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Mannheim
D-68131 Mannheim, Germany
http://www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/

Funding

Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors - request for proposals

Purpose. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), encourages the submission of grant applications that propose hypothesis-driven projects exploring associations between the built environment, other contextual features of where people of all ages live and work and health behaviors related to energy balance. These projects should use population level data from health surveys and other large health studies. It is expected that the proposed projects will be designed to add/include contextual variables at diverse levels of geographic aggregation to such studies on behaviors that affect individual energy balance and thereby health. Subsequent analyses should be aimed at understanding the relative importance of the contextual variables (including home, work, school, and/or other environments) as determinants of energy balance-related health behaviors. Grant applications will be expected to use population level data from diverse sources for: 1) generation and addition of new geographic information system (GIS) data layers for analysis of contextual variables such as measures of the built and natural environments, to existing studies; 2) analyses of existing confidential geographic-based data either on site, at survey data centers, or other protected sites; and/or 3) merging multiple health-related data resources to allow new analyses of associations between contextual variables and energy balance-related health behaviors. An example of a research question given in the announcement is, Explore new data sources that have not been used in public health research concerning energy balance-related health behaviors. For example, the recently released American Time Use Survey might allow exploration of the interactive effects of neighborhood access to food and recreation-related facilities with demographic differences in daily patterns of time.

RO1's
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-192.html

R21's
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-08-193.html

Please contact me if I can be of any assistance in preparing applications in response to these announcements.

David Berrigan PhD MPH
Applied Research Program
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute
Executive Plaza North MSC 7344
Room 4095B
Bethesda MD 20892-7344
Phone: 301-451-4301
Fax: 301-435-3710
berrigad@mail.nih.gov

Junior Sociologist Research Award
International Sociological Association
Call for participation
Deadline: 1 May 2009

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