Date Due: 08/03/18, annually thereafter; 02/02/18, annually thereafter
Amount: $400,000
Summary: STS research focuses on the intellectual, material, and social facets of STEM. Such research endeavors to understand how scientific knowledge is produced and sanctioned, and how it is challenged and changes. It explores broader societal ramifications and underlying presuppositions. STS research studies how materials, devices, and techniques are designed and developed; how and by whom they are diffused, used, adapted, and rejected; how they are affected by social and cultural environments; and how they influence quality of life, culture, and society. STS research explores how socio-cultural values are embedded in science and technology, and how issues of governance and equity co-evolve with the development and use of scientific knowledge and technological artifacts. The STS program supports proposals across the broad spectrum of STS research areas, topics, and approaches. Examples include, but are by no means limited to:
1. Societal aspects of emerging high-tech technologies and low-tech technologies.
2. Issues relating to equity, ethics, governance, sustainability, public engagement, user-centeredness, and inclusiveness.
3. Integration of traditional STS approaches with innovative perspectives from the arts or humanities.
4. Ethical, policy, and cultural issues regarding big data, surveillance and privacy in an increasingly networked world, and
5. The science of broadening participation in STEM disciplines.
~ Amount is $400,000 (total direct costs) over 2 to 3 years
Keywords: STEM, technology, humanities
Solicitation number: 15-506
Limitations: Pre-proposals: No more than two in a year as PI, co-PI or PI of a subaward