Psychological Science and Education Research Funding Opportunities at NSF and IES Webinar

Program directors from the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the Department of Education (ED) will discuss intellectual, sociological, and practical issues that arise at the intersection of education and psychological science. Program directors advise researchers on topics and procedures for research practices, create funding solicitations, oversee the review process for hundreds of proposals a year, and manage portfolios of ongoing research projects.

In this session, presenters will highlight relevant funding opportunities, as well as the grant application, review, and funding processes at each agency, providing hints for successful grant writing along the way. They will discuss where their programs are placed in relation to one another in the federal landscape and along the continuum from the most basic to the most applied research – and the extent that such a distinction is meaningful. They will also contrast their agencies’ funding emphases and the implications those emphases have both for the fates of grant proposals and for the kinds of projects that can be engaged. Throughout, the presenters will discuss the challenges and opportunities that particularly face psychologists as they work on complex, multi-disciplinary educational problems.

Panelists:
Erin Higgins (IES)
Robert Ochsendorf (NSF)
Gregg Solomon (NSF)

A copy of the NSF EHR slides is available for download here.

A copy of the IES slides is available for download here.

More Reading:

Higgins, E. J., Dettmer, A. M., & Albro, E. R. (2019). Looking Back to Move Forward: A Retrospective Examination of Research at the Intersection of Cognitive Science and Education and What It Means for the Future. Journal of Cognition and Development, 20(2), 278–297. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2019.1565537

King, K. D., Ochsendorf, R. J., Solomon, G. E. A., & Sloane, F. C. (2020). Posing Fundable Questions in Mathematics and Science Education. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 18(S1), 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-020-10088-4King-et-al-2020_PosingFundableQuestions

Solomon, G. E. A., Youtie, J., Carley, S., & Porter, A. L. (2019). What people learn about how people learn: An analysis of citation behavior and the multidisciplinary flow of knowledge. Research Policy, 48(9), 103835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103835