|
Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2008
(HSD)

Annual Grantees' Conference Announcement

The next annual HSD Grantees' Conference will be held February 8th and 9th, 2010 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, near the NSF building. This is an invitation-only event; HSD grantees with awards from Fiscal Years 2006, 2007, or 2008 are expected to attend. More details and a preliminary agenda can be found on the HSD 2010 Grantees Conference Site.
Special Program Notice

The HSD program will no longer be accepting proposals; FY 08 was the last competition.
CONTACTS

| Name |
Email |
Phone |
Room |
|
Rita
Teutonico |
rteutoni@nsf.gov |
(703) 292-7118 |
905 N |
|
Elizabeth
Tran |
etran@nsf.gov |
(703) 292-5338 |
907 N |
For questions involving the HSD emphasis areas, contact :
Agents of Change (AOC)
Brian Humes, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences phone: 703-292-7284 email: bhumes@nsf.gov
Nancy Huntly, Directorate for Biological Sciences phone: 703-292-8061 email: nhuntly@nsf.gov
Dynamics of Human Behavior (DHB)
Amber Story, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences phone: 703-292-7249 email: astory@nsf.gov
Decision Making, Risk, and Uncertainty (DRU)
Robert O'Connor, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences phone: 703-292-7263 email: roconnor@nsf.gov
Dennis Wenger, Directorate for Engineering phone: 703-292-8606 email: dwenger@nsf.gov
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For questions about International Activities, contact
Bonnie Thompson, Office of International Science and Engineering phone: 703-292-7248 email: bthompso@nsf.gov
------------------------------------------------------------------------
General Inquiries
Rita Teutonico, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences phone: 703-292-7118 email: rteutoni@nsf.gov
Elizabeth Tran, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences phone: 703-292-5338 email: etran@nsf.gov
------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Solicitation
08-508
Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes
revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA)
(Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests
funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring
activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply
with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I:
Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of
this new requirement).
SYNOPSIS

The Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. HSD aims to increase our collective ability to (1) understand the complexities of change; (2) understand the dynamics of human and social behavior at all levels, including that of the human mind; (3) understand the cognitive and social structures that create, define, and result from change; and (4) manage profound or rapid change, and make decisions in the face of changing risks and uncertainty. Accomplishing these goals requires multidisciplinary research teams and comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches across the sciences, engineering, education, and humanities, as appropriate.
The FY 2008 competition will include three emphasis areas (Agents of Change; Dynamics of Human Behavior; and Decision Making, Risk and Uncertainty). HSD encourages projects investigating complexity and systems thinking, with a goal of revealing the emergent properties of dynamic systems. HSD also encourages projects identifying human drivers of environmental change and exploring the consequences of environmental change on humans. Such research is central in equipping us to handle the most pressing environmental problems for our nation and the world.
RELATED URLS

2008 HSD Grantees Conference Proceedings

2007 HSD Grantees Conference Proceedings

2006 HSD Grantees Conference Proceedings

2005 HSD Grantees Conference Proceedings

Modeling Social Dynamics Workshop, October 2006

FAQs

THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF

Emerging Frontiers

Opportunities that Highlight International Collaboration

Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program
News
|