Deadline: 31-Aug-22
Entries are now open for the 2022 Race and Sexuality Research Award to encourage proposals that focus on the following:
- Sex education in schools
- Transgender youth
- Reproductive justice
The Center for Positive Sexuality welcomes projects from varied research approaches, disciplines, and methodologies that connect facets of sexuality to Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other POC communities. Projects can be in any stage of the process to qualify.
Components
The key components of this model are that:
- “positive” refers to strengths, wellbeing, and happiness;
- multiple disciplines and methods to understand sexuality are welcomed;
- individual sexuality is unique and multi-faceted;
- application of professional ethics is necessary;
- open and honest communication is necessary;
- positive sexuality is humanizing and inclusive;
- positive sexuality encourages peacemaking; and
- it has applications across multiple levels of social structure.
Benefits
- Research funding
- Timely and clear communication
- Research support from one or more of their volunteer Research Assistants (as available)
- Promotion of your work via their website and social media
- For projects that require IRB approval, assistance is available via their collaboration with the CARAS IRB
- Option to submit for publication in the Journal of Positive Sexuality
Responsibilities of Awardees
Recipients of awards will be expected to:
- Use funding in a manner congruent with what was proposed in the budget
- Provide photos and biographies to help them promote your work
- Check in with CPS about progress of your research, and how they can help
- Public acknowledgment of funding from the Center for Positive Sexuality
Elibiltiy Criteria
Proposals are welcomed from researchers at any level, including community members unaffiliated with academic institutions, and anyone can apply. They welcome submissions from new researchers without a publication record. Researchers from marginalized communities are especially encouraged to apply; please feel free to comment on your identities and how they relate to the work you are proposing.
For more information, visit https://positivesexuality.org/research/race-and-sexuality-research/