HIBAR RESEARCH ALLIANCE NEWSLETTER - WINTER 2025

A winter update from the HIBAR Research Alliance

In this issue, we share:

As always, you can find additional information and resources at www.hibar-research.org.
 

Join our January 23 webinar:

Improving Safe Behaviors on the Roadways

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The Transportation Research and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS) Center at the University of California San Diego is addressing the prevalence of motor vehicle crashes using a multidisciplinary approach to understand the human behaviors contributing to crashes, and designing and implementing interventions to improve safe driving and thereby prevent crashes.

TREDS Director Dr. Linda Hill and Retired California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez will share how the results of cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary research have been vital for understanding the many complex factors that relate to safe driving, and for determining how to deliver material in a way that drives positive behavior change. Read more.
 

Catch up with highlights from our recent webinars

Launching HIBAR Research Buddies

Graduate student leaders for the HIBAR Research Buddies community project share lessons learned, as well as the resulting framework for future activities that can help to build a vibrant and engaged community over the next several years, both at the University of British Columbia and beyond.  Read more.

Modernizing Scholarship for Public Good

Dr. Elyse Aurbach described the Modernizing Scholarship for the Public Good initiative, and the extensive action framework that highlights strategic actions institutions can take to advance publicly engaged and impactful research, including Highly Integrative Basic and Responsive projects. Read more.

Watch the highlights

Watch the highlights
 

ASU showcases exemplary HIBAR projects

In 2023, Arizona State University established a new President’s Award for Transdisciplinary Collaboration to recognize multidisciplinary HIBAR project teams that have undertaken exemplary trans-sectoral collaboration addressing a societally-relevant issue. 

Read about the ASU award program

On December 6, ASU presented the 2024 award to a project that addresses the lack of dyslexia screening measures for English-speaking monolingual children and the additional challenge that screening measures available for bilingual children are not widely used. In this study, the ASU Bilingual Language and Literacy Lab, the Child Language and Literacy Lab, Learning to Soar Tutoring, Healing Hearts Pediatrics and Phoenix Children’s collaborated to develop the Dyslexia Screening Questionnaire that is offered in both English and Spanish.  
 

What we're reading

Here are some recent articles that you may find interesting:
 

Expanding the Vision for Science and Research: The Questions We Need to Talk About

A message from Elizabeth Christopherson and Angela Bednarek for the Civic Science Series

Read the message
 

No One-Size-Fits-All: A Context-Sensitive Approach to Research-Practice Partnership Health and Effectiveness

A blog post on the W.T. Grant website, by authors at the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice and the National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships

Read the blog post
 

Future Scientific Innovation Requires the Transformative Power of Philanthropy 

A new editorial co-authored by Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Roundtable staff and Council members, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Read the editorial
 

Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research

Proceedings of a workshop hosted by the National Academies, bringing together leaders and engaged research champions to explore areas for coordination and capacity building

Read the report
 

Upcoming opportunities

We are pleased to share the following opportunities that may directly fund HIBAR projects, or enhance the capacity of the research and innovation ecosystem to support HIBAR projects. 

W.T. Grant Scholars Program

 Applications due July 1, 2025 

This program supports career development for promising early-career researchers, funding five-year research and mentoring plans that expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

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NMFS Sea-Grant Fellowship

Student applications due January 23, 2025

Sea Grant and the National Marine Fisheries Service partner to train students through this joint fellowship program. The Sea Grant network is a federal/university partnership with NOAA.  

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On Being a Scientist

Call for experts open until January 24, 2025

NASEM are seeking suggestions for experts to participate in developing an updated edition of On Being a Scientist: An Updated and Online Guide to the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research

Read more
 

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For more information about the HIBAR Research Alliance, visit www.hibar-research.org.