Please send grant and fellowship notices to: Information Services, The Kinsey Institute, Morrison 302, Bloomington, IN 47405; Fax 812/855-8277. Email: kinsey@indiana.edu

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American Federation for Aging Research, New York, NY

AFAR administers eight grant programs for biomedical and clinical research related to various aspects of aging. Contact: AFAR, 141 Avenue of the America, NY, NY 10019.

The American Institute of Bisexuality, San Diego, CA

The Institute offers grants of $200 - $1500 for projects related to bisexuality, including publications, and academic research. Applications accepted continously. Contact: AIB, 4545 Park Blvd. #207, San Diego, CA 92116.

American Psychological Foundation, Washington, DC

APF has three grant programs for research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues, on of which is the Wayne F. Placek Award for Scientific Research on Gay and Lesbian Issues. Contact: Foundation Awards, APF, 750 1st St. NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242. Ph. 202/336-5824. Email: foundation@APA.org

American Social Health Association, Research Triangle Park, NC

ASHA Research Fellowship Program provides training in STDs for postdoctoral investigators.

American Sociological Association

ASA provides information on its own funding opportunities for sociologists, as well as an annotated listing of other opportunities for research support from federal and private ources.

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

ATSA sponsors Awards for Best Graduate Research on Sexual Abuse Victims and Abusers, and Research Grants for graduate students and independent investigators. Contact: ATSA, 10700 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy., Ste. 26, Beaverton, OR 97005-3035. Ph. 503/643-1023; Fax 503/643-5084. Email: atsa@atsa.com

Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

CAIR offers two-year postdoctoral research training opportunities in HIV behavioral research through its National Service Award (NRSA) program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Contact: CAIR, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226. Ph. 414/456-7700; Fax 414/287-4209.

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California - San Francisco

Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities. This program, supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), is a funding opportunity for investigators doing HIV-prevention research with minority communities.

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York

The Center offers various fellowships and awards. Contact: Fellowship Committee, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, 33 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036. Ph. 212/642-2924.

The Center for Marital and Sexual Health, Cleveland, Ohio

Individuals who have completed pre-doctoral psychology internships, psychiatric residencies, or have two years post master's social work experience are invited to apply for a one- or two-year full or part-time fellowship in clinical sexuality. Fellows are involved in supervised clinical work in sexual dysfunction, paraphilia, gender identity disorders, marital therapy and general psychiatric problems. Fellows may elect to be involved in teaching and/or research opportunities. Contact: Stanley Althof, Ph.D., Stephen Levine, M.D. or Candace Risen, L.I.S.W. at 23230 Chagrin Blvd, Suite 350, Beachwood, Ohio 44122 or call 216-831-2900 or fax at 216-831-4306.

Charlotte Ellertson Social Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in Abortion and Reproductive Health

Social scientists and public health researchers are invited to apply for a postdoctoral research and leadership fellowship in abortion and reproductive health. The fellowship's objectives are to support a multidisciplinary cohort of promising new social science researchers who study abortion and reproductive health, and produce and share research that informs policy and program design in abortion and reproductive health. The fellowship seeks applicants who are committed to abortion scholarship and careers that include a focus on abortion research and advocacy. Please visit the Ibis Reproductive Health website http://www.ibisreproductivehealth.org/projects/fellowship/ for more information on the fellowship and the application process. The application deadline is December 3rd, 2007. Please contact fellowship@ibisreproductivehealth.org with any questions.

Community of Science Funding Opportunities

Related funding opportunities listed by this commercial service can be located by keywords, including "AIDS," "Gender Issues," "HIV Infection," "Homosexual," "Rape or Sexual Abuse," "Reproduction," "Sexual Behavior," and "Sexuality and Sex Roles."

Emory University Family Planning Program, Atlanta, GA

Emory University provides internships to college/graduate students to participate in its Summer Program in Family Planning and Human Sexuality. The program runs 10 weeks, and the stipend is $1500. Contact: Ms. Maxine Keel, Emory University Family Planning Program, 69 Butler St. SE, Atlanta, GA 30303. Ph. 404/616-3708.

 

The Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University

The Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program seeks candidates with a Ph.D. in any discipline who specialize in a feminist and/or queer approach to one or more of the following areas of inquiry: science studies (or the history, sociology, philosophy or anthropology of science); religion; law and social policy; political theory; and/or feminist critical social theory. Postdoctoral teaching-research fellowships in the humanities, (Deadline of 10/1/05), each awarded for the one-year period beginning July 2006, offer stipends of $40,000. Fellows typically teach one course per semester. Info: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum

Ford Foundation, New York, NY

One of the foundation's three program areas, Asset Building and Community Development, includes Reproductive Health and Population and a focus on adolescent sexuality and AIDS prevention. Most of the foundation's grant funds are given to organizations.

The Foundation Center, New York, NY

Provides links to more than 160 private and corporate foundations and public charities on the WWW. Each of these three grantmaker groups can be searched by keyword; each has its own list of keywords. Human sexuality is used as a keyword only for corporate grantmakers, and only retrieves one site, the Playboy Foundation, which mostly funds advocacy efforts for social change.

GLAAD Dissertation Fellowship

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) offers $5,000 fellowships to support graduate student research on sexual orientation, gender identity and media representation. The program is open to all students currently enrolled in a doctoral program at a U.S. institution and who have completed all pre-dissertation requirements by the application deadline. For more information as well as application materials, visit the GLAAD website at Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or send an e-mail to plum@glaad.org .

GrantsNet, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and

the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

A searchable database of biomedical funding opportunities from non-profit organizations and federal agencies.

HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York, NY

The HIV Center is a large interdisciplinary research program on behavioral aspects of HIV (and other sexually transmitted infections) with a special emphasis on sexuality and gender. It announced Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Sexuality and Gender. Contact: Bob Harbaum, 212-543-5751, harbaum@pi.cpmc.columbia.edu, or Theo Sandfort, Ph.D., Training Director HIV Center Postdoctoral Fellowship, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, Box 15, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, 212-543-5925, tgs2001@columbia.edu.

 

Indiana University, Sponsored Research Services, Bloomington

Faculty and students of Indiana University may search the Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) database, a service of InfoEd International, which provides up-to-the-minute information on federal and non-federal funding opportunities from more than 1200 organizations and agencies. The SPIN Keyword Thesaurus includes various terms related to human sexuality research, including: Adolescent Sexual Behavior, AIDS, Human Reproduction/Fertility, Men's Health, Rape/Sexual Abuse, Sex Differences, Sex Education, Sexual Behavior, Sexuality and Sex Roles, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Women's Health. See I.U. Sponsored Research Services to access SPIN and to view other information on funding opportunities, including Grantline.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NICHD conducts and supports laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families and populations. Contact: Susan F. Newcomer, Ph.D., Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, NICHD, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Rm. 8B13, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7510. Email: NewcomeS@hd01.nichd.nih.gov

National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC

See the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Grants related to sexuality and reproduction may be found through several of the institutes, including NIA, NIAID, NICHD, NIDA, and NIDA. Another resource is CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects), a searachable database of federally funded biomedical research projects.

The National Science Foundation, Washington, DC

The Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research (SBER) sponsors interdisciplinary research on human and social behavior. Related research program areas include: Social Psychology, Sociology, Human Cognition and Perception, and Methodology, Measurement and Statistics. NSF awards made since 1989 can be searched in various ways. A Verity search permits great flexibility. Searches can be limited to SBR (sex* and SBR). Specific program areas, such as 1160-Animal Behavior; 1320-Economics; and 1127- Systematics and Population Biolo can be eliminated from searches (sex* NOT (1160 or 1320)), or a particular program area, such as 1333-Method, Measure and Stats in Soc (sex* AND SBR AND 1333), can be targeted. Grant and Award Opportunities also can be searched.

North American Menopause Society

NAMS/A Friend Indeed Award of $5000 honors innovative studies about women in menopause. The NAMS/Wyeth-Ayerst Clinical Research Fellowship Grant awards $20000 in research funds to a resident, fellow, or junior faculty member in a medical school that is providing training in menopause-related medicine. Contact: NAMS, PO Box 94527, Cleveland, OH 44101. Email: info@menopause.org

The Population Council, New York, NY

Social Science Fellowship Program awarded for one-year of graduate and postgraduate training (with preference to those from developing countries)
Postdoctoral Biomedical Fellowship Program for research in contraceptive development and reproductive physiology

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, NY

Sexuality Research Fellowship Program. The SSRC sponsors a dissertation and postdoctoral fellowship program for social and behavioral research on sexuality conducted in the United States, funded by the Ford Foundation.
The 2005 program is accepting applications through December 15, 2004.
For more information, contact the SSRC or email srfp@ssrc.org

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

The Society sponsors several annual awards, internships and a fellowship, with deadlines in November and April.

The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

FSSS Grants-in-Aid
Student Research Grants. SSSS annually awards three grants to graduate students doing sexuality research.

Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) Student Research Award

SSTAR Student Research Award recognizes the scholarly work of students who are developing a career in the field of sexual disorders and fosters the professional development of individuals beginning their careers in this area. Submissions are invited from full-time students who, at the time of submission, are enrolled in an accredited graduate degree program, internship, residency, or fellowship sponsored by a recognized institution of higher education or an accredited teaching hospital or health facility.
Contact: Eric W. Corty, Ph.D. at (216) 831-2900, e-mail: ecorty@juno.com

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, an index to all federal grant programs in the United States, can be searched through DHHS' GrantsNet.

The Wellcome Trust

Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships in Population Studies; Research Grants in Population Studies. Areas include the improvement of reproductive health in adolescents and adults and sexual health. Not available to researchers in North America. Contact: The Grants Section (Population Studies), The Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BE. Email: population@wellcome.ac.uk