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Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)

U.S. National Science Foundation · Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (47.075)

Posted 20 May 2023 · About 3 months left

In plain terms

The US National Science Foundation funds research using data science and network analysis to understand human behavior, with awards from 10,000 to 1.2 million US dollars. The programme supports both fundamental research and infrastructure development for social and behavioural science, with applications in English due by 14 January 2027.

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Summary

The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, or heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual or group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that provide data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security.

HNDS has two tracks:

(1) Human Networks and Data Science – Infrastructure (HNDS-I). Infrastructure proposals will address the development of data resources and relevant analytic techniques that support fundamental Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) research. Successful infrastructure proposals will construct, within the financial resources provided by the award, databases or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable previously impossible data-intensive research in the social sciences. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by making possible new…

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Eligible regions

  • Worldwide

Who can apply

  • NGO / civil society
  • Community-based organisation
  • Government body
  • Academic or research institution
  • Private company
  • Social enterprise or cooperative
  • Individual
  • UN or intergovernmental agency
  • Other applicant type

Eligibility and conditions

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Applicant types: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

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