Nebraska Academy for Early Childhood Research
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Amanda Garrett,
Buffett Early Childhood Institute
Amanda Garrett is a research assistant professor at the Buffett Early Childhood Institute.
Her research interests include mixed methods research, interview methods and family school partnerships. As a research methodologist, she also designs research and evaluation projects, and offers methodological expertise on projects.
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What is the future direction for your early childhood research?
"Currently, I am a member of the research and evaluation team studying the Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan. We concentrate our efforts on reducing race- and income-based opportunity and achievement gaps. This year we are focusing on the ways in which families and community-based resources intersect with schools."
Are there any new research projects or activities you are starting on?
"This year I have funding from the Kellogg Foundation to examine educational transitions from birth through the early elementary years. I am collecting data from school personnel this spring to better understand how transitions are perceived; what policies, programs and practices are in place; and how transitions are implemented."
How can effective collaborations enhance the research enterprise?
"Using my research methodologist lens, I know working on an effective team yields benefits. Partnering across divides can facilitate stronger funding proposals and avenues for publication. Research partnerships allow for more rapid transfer of ideas into practice."
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Please join us at the
UNL reception in Baltimore
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Faculty, staff, students, alumni, colleagues and friends are invited to attend the University of Nebraska–Lincoln reception at the upcoming
2019 SRCD Biennial Meeting
in Baltimore.
The UNL reception is
Thursday, March 21
from
7 to 9 p.m
. in the Hilton Baltimore Calloway AB Room.
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Please consider joining us. The reception is sponsored by:
- Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior
- College of Education & Human Sciences
- Department of Child, Youth & Family Studies
- Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
- Nebraska Academy for Early Childhood Research
- Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families & Schools
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Sommer Fousek at
sfousek2@unl.edu
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Hope to see you there!
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Baby QUILS for Child Language Researchers
The Baby Quick Interactive Language Screener (Baby QUILS) is a newly developed computerized screener assessing language development in English-speaking children 24-36 months of age.
This measure is a downward extension of the QUILS (https://quilscreener.com/). Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Golinkoff, Jill de Villiers and Aquiles Iglesias are seeking researchers who are interested in joining the norming effort for this new assessment. Researchers would need to use this new measure with 2-year-olds and contribute their anonymized data to the norming sample. Participating researchers will have access to Baby QUILS instruments free of charge.
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Here are recent publications from NAECR researchers:
Julia Torquati and Dipti Dev, Child, Youth & Family Studies, UNL
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Would you like to see your work featured here? Contact us at
naecr@unl.edu
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Bridging Research and Practice
Do you want to translate your research into a positive impact for the field?
As a leading publication for early childhood professionals, the
Child Care Exchange magazine
seeks to provide a bridge linking research and practice — and to share it with students and professionals at all levels.
Nominate your own previously published research, or the research of a colleague or graduate student.
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Staff in CYFS are available to assist with your
proposal development
for these or other funding opportunities.
Please contact
Lisa Knoche
if you are interested in discussing funding opportunities for your research.
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University of Nebraska Foundation Women Investing in Nebraska Grant
Women Investing in Nebraska (WIN) is a collective giving group operating in partnership with the University of Nebraska Foundation and the UNF Charitable Gift Fund to support women philanthropists through education, engagement and empowerment. WIN is seeking interest from NU programs that address issues important to the state for its annual grant awards program.
Eligible categories include Arts and Culture, Health and Human Services, Education and Environment, and Community and Civic Engagement.
Letters of intent are due
Feb. 18, 2019
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Invited full proposals are due
April 22, 2019
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NIH HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study
This funding opportunity will support the planning and initial development of a large-scale, multi-site research study to prospectively examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social and emotional development beginning prenatally through childhood, and the long-term impacts of pre/postnatal drug and adverse environmental exposures on brain and behavioral health and risk for substance use and mental disorders.
Proposals are due
March 25, 2019
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An optional letter of intent is due 30 days prior to the application due date.
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University of Nebraska Core Facility Grant Program
The University of Nebraska is extending a grant program to encourage faculty researchers across all four campuses to employ NU core facilities in their research projects. The program’s aim is to help researchers generate data that strengthens grant proposals, resubmissions and peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Faculty members from all ranks are eligible to submit proposals if they did not use core facilities or associated technology platforms in fiscal year 2017 or 2018. Applicants may request $5,000 per facility, or up to $9,000 total if they use more than one facility.
Proposals are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
New awards will not be made after
March 31, 2019
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Administration for Children and Families: Early Care and Education Research Scholars Grants
The ACF Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation is considering funding Child Care, Head Start, Family Strengthening and Behavioral Interventions graduate student dissertation grants in 2019:
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Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants
Six awards are expected, each of $20,000 to $25,000.
Proposals are due
April 2, 2019
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Child Care Research Scholars Grants
Six awards are expected, each of $20,000 to $25,000.
Proposals are due
April 2, 2019
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Behavioral Interventions Scholars Grants
Four awards are expected, each of $20,000 to $25,000.
Proposals are due
April 14, 2019
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Family Strengthening Scholars Grants
Three awards are expected, each of $10,000 to $25,000.
Proposals are due
May 30, 2019
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William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers' expertise in new disciplines, methods and content areas.
Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers.
Proposals are due
July 2, 2019
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National Institutes of Health: Reducing Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Children
This NIH initiative encourages research that targets the reduction of health disparities among children, including a focus on ethnic and racial minority children and populations of underserved children.
Specific targeted areas of research include bio-behavioral studies that incorporate multiple factors that influence child health disparities (biological, lifestyle factors, environmental, social, economic, cultural and family influences); studies that target the specific health promotion needs of children with a known illness and/or disability; and studies that test and evaluate the comparative effectiveness of health promotion interventions conducted in traditional and nontraditional settings.
Proposals are due
May 7, 2020
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Zero to Three Annual Conference
Oct. 2-4, 2019
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Zero to Three’s annual conference gathers early childhood professionals from all disciplines to explore the most up-to-date research, best practices and policy developments available.
Proposals are being accepted for presentations relevant to children age 5 and younger (including the prenatal period) and their families. Content should appeal to a multidisciplinary group including early childhood educators, mental health practitioners, early intervention providers, trainers, program administrators, policy advocates, etc.
Proposals are due
Feb. 19, 2019
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International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology encourages research on the development of behavior in all organisms, with special attention to the effects of biological factors operating at any level of organization.
Symposium submission topics and categories include models of neurodevelopmental disorders, physiological processes, socio-emotional, perception, sleep, neurodevelopment and plasticity, learning, memory, cognitive processes, genetics and epigenetics, stress and adversity, GxE interactions, cultural influences, sensori-motor development and parental behavior.
Proposals are due
April 1, 2019
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Cognitive Development Society
Oct. 17-19, 2019
Louisville, Kentucky
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Cognitive Development Society aims to provide a unified voice for the wide range of scholars, practitioners, and others who are interested in change and continuity in the intellectual processes that support mental life.
Proposals are due
July 2, 2019
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New!
2019 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
April 5-9, 2019
Toronto, Canada
The AERA Annual Meeting is the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in an array of areas.
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Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meeting
Feb. 13-16, 2019
Jacksonville, Florida
SCCR is a multi-disciplinary organization that provides members the opportunity to network with scholars from a wide variety of approaches to cross-cultural and comparative research.
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Society for Research in Child Development
2019 Biennial Meeting
March 21-23, 2019
Baltimore, Maryland
The Society for Research in Child Development stimulates and supports research to encourage cooperation among individuals engaged in the scientific study of child development, and to encourage applications of research findings.
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New!
Pediatric Research Seminars
Feb. 15, 2019
Noon – 1 p.m.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
DRC 1, 1005
The UNMC Department of Pediatrics and the Child Health Research Institute sponsor Pediatric Research Seminars on the third Friday of each month. The location of the seminars alternates between UNMC and Children’s Hospital & Medical Center.
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New!
University-Based Child Development Laboratory Schools:
A Vision for the Future
March 11, 2019
1:30-3 p.m.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
141 Louise Pound Hall
Dr. Brent McBride will present on strategies that allow university-based child development laboratory schools to successfully balance the demands associated with providing high-quality early care and education services, while also maximizing teaching, research and outreach/engagement activities.
Dr. McBride is one of the leading researchers in the area of father involvement in families of children with disabilities. His cutting-edge research provides critical insight on how to better support fathers struggling within this challenging parenting context, as well as early intervention personnel working with these families.
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New!
67th Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
"Nature and Psychology: How the Natural World Shapes our Cognition"
April 11-12, 2019
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nebraska Union
The primary goal of this symposium is to delve deeper into the question of the mechanism(s) underlying the positive effects of natural environments through bringing together researchers from various disciplines.
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Spring 2019 SBSRC Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Series
The Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Consortium is hosting a brown bag series on community-based participatory research (CBPR).
CBPR is an approach to research that involves equitable partnerships among researchers, communities and organizations. Partners are involved in all phases and aspects of the research process. CBPR practitioners benefit from highly relevant and generalizable findings with real-world, broader impacts.
Introduction to CBPR
Feb. 13, 2019
Noon – 1 p.m.
Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room (212)
CBPR Best Practices
March 13, 2019
Noon – 1 p.m.
Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room (212)
CBPR Community and Researcher Panel
April 10, 2019
Noon – 1 p.m.
Nebraska Union, Regency Suite
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln Reception
SRCD Biennial Meeting
March 21, 2019
Hilton Baltimore, Calloway AB Room
Baltimore, Maryland
7 – 9 p.m.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, colleagues and friends are invited to attend the University of Nebraska–Lincoln reception at the upcoming
2019 SRCD Biennial Meeting
in Baltimore.
The UNL reception is
Thursday, March 21
from
7 to 9 p.m
. in the Hilton Baltimore Calloway AB Room. Hope to see you there!
The reception is sponsored by:
- Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior
- College of Education & Human Sciences
- Department of Child, Youth & Family Studies
- Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
- Nebraska Academy for Early Childhood Research
- Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families & Schools
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NAECR Networking: Connecting with Community Research Partners
May 1, 2019
Nebraska Union, Colonial A
2 – 4 p.m.
Additional details coming soon!
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Is there an upcoming conference you want to publicize? A new publication you would like to share? Let us know!
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New!
Connecting Research and Policy
Learn more and sign up for alerts about legislation relevant to early childhood researchers.
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Student Research Opportunities
Advertise opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students seeking work experience in early childhood research.
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Find a Researcher
Find and collaborate with other early childhood researchers across the NU system.
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NAECR News archives available
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NAECR News will be shared twice a month to inform the early childhood research community across the NU system.
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