The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is pleased to announce the 2022 Digital Credit Observatory (DCO) Impact Evaluations Request for Proposals, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Please carefully review the full Request for Proposals for details before submitting a proposal via the forms below. You can contact our staff team at digitalcredit@berkeley.edu with any questions.
Deadline for Proposals: Friday, April 28th, 2023 at 5:00 PM Pacific Time
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is pleased to announce the 2022 Digital Credit Observatory (DCO) Impact Evaluations Request for Proposals, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Please carefully review the full Request for Proposals for details before submitting a proposal via the forms below. You can contact our staff team at digitalcredit@berkeley.edu with any questions.
Deadline for Proposals: Friday, April 28th, 2023 at 5:00 PM Pacific Time
CEGA DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS CHALLENGE GRANTS
SPRING 2023 REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Description:
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is pleased to announce our Spring 2023 Development Economics Challenge Grants. CEGA will offer two types of awards to support original research led by UC Berkeley PhD students:
(1) travel grants up to $5,000 for scoping and/or short-term fieldwork;
(2) seed grants up to $20,000 for extensive, longer-term projects.
Proposed research must involve rigorous evaluation of programs or policies designed to alleviate poverty and promote social or economic development in low- and middle- income countries. Grant funds may be used to cover travel and lodging, data collection or access, data analysis, and related activities. Grants may not be used for student stipends.
Deadline: April 9, 2023 at 11:59pm Pacific Time
Eligibility Criteria: Doctoral students at UC Berkeley can apply.
Each application must include a nomination from a CEGA faculty affiliate sponsor. The nomination should be emailed to Sam Bordia (bordia@berkeley.edu) by the submission deadline (simply stating, "I have reviewed the proposed research and agree to nominate the applicant for this award" is acceptable).
Application Process:
Please download and complete the Application Form. Applications should be no more than two pages, describe the research to be conducted, and include a budget. All materials should be submitted in a single PDF file here.
Please email Sam Bordia (bordia@berkeley.edu) with any inquiries.
About RT2
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) in Berkeley, CA, May 17-19, 2023.
RT2 provides participants with an overview of tools and best practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. This year will highlight the credibility and reliability of findings in behavioral and social science research (BSSR) related to aging and health disparities. The curriculum is developed and delivered by academic leaders and experts in aging and health disparities research and open science movement, and there will be space for collaborative work and hands-on skill building. Participants are encouraged to bring their own research questions and ideas to seek support and feedback from instructors and other attendees. Learn more about previous RT2 events here.
Curriculum
A tentative agenda is forthcoming. RT2 curriculum focuses on the following topics:
- Ethics and Mertonian norms for research transparency and reproducibility
- Scientific misconduct and researcher degrees of freedom
- Improved specification through study pre-registration and pre-analysis plans
- Computational reproducibility and approaches to replication
- Techniques for reproducible meta-analysis
- Hands-on practice with version control using Git (GitHub or the Command Line)
- Dynamic documents with R and Stata
- Data management and de-identification for data sharing
- Appropriate use of statistics and interpretation of statistical evidence
- Applications to behavioral and social science research
Curriculum Committee
Faculty members involved in planning the agenda and curriculum include:
- Jinkook Lee (USC, Economics Professor and Director of the Program on Global Aging, Health, and Policy)
- William Dow (UC Berkeley, Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Demography, Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging)
- Joshua Ehrlich (University of Michigan, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research)
- Daniel Benjamin (UCLA, Professor in the Human Genetics Department at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA Anderson School of Management)
- Sean Grant (University of Oregon, Research Associate Professor in the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice)
- Alden Gross (Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor of Epidemiology)
Eligibility
RT2 is designed for researchers in the social and health sciences, with particular emphasis on economics, political science, psychology, and public health. Participants are typically (i) current Masters and PhD students, (ii) postdocs, (iii) junior faculty, (iv) research staff, (v) librarians and data stewards, and (vi) journal editors, funders, and research managers curious about the implications of transparency and reproducibility for their work.
RT2 curriculum is most applicable to research that uses quantitative or mixed methods. Applicants should have proficiency in R or Stata.
Application Process
Submit an application using the form below. The application includes questions regarding (i) your motivation for participating in RT2 and (ii) how you expect your participation to contribute to scaling-up education and training on research transparency and reproducibility.
Applications should also include a Curriculum Vitae or Resume. Letters of Reference are also accepted, though they are not required. Please submit these as attachments in the online application portal.
Selection Process
BITSS aims to select no more than 40 participants for RT2. With this in mind, the number of applications for RT2 tends to exceed the number of available spaces.
BITSS staff will lead the selection process with oversight from the BITSS Faculty Director. Competitive selection will be based on the (i) quality of application materials and expected impact and (ii) balance across disciplines, gender, and institutions.
Applications from self-funded participants will be considered on a rolling basis.
Application Timeline
We now consider applications on a rolling basis through 11:59 pm PT April 3, 2023.
Contact
Reach out to BITSS Program Manager (grace.han24@berkeley.edu) with any questions about RT2 2023.