DOHA: The Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), in collaboration with the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), yesterday, launched the second OSRA Research Grant (2016) that focuses on Arab family and family-related issues. The grant offers up to $50,000 to the most competitive and innovative proposals from Qatar and other Arab countries.
The second research grant was announced by Noor Al Malki Al Jehani, DIFI director at the Second Annual Conference on Family Research and Policy which opened at the Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday.
The grant aims to support high quality empirical work that advances research on Arab families and to provide policymakers with evidence-based research and analysis that encourages the formation and modification of family-related policies.
It also seeks to develop research capacity on issues related to Arab families and develop research areas in support of the Qatar National Research Strategy (QNRS).
The research grants support cutting-edge, basic and applied research (including comparative and policy-oriented research) that covers a large number of topics grouped under four major themes: family, marriage, parenting and parenthood, and divorce.
Family in the Arab world: The impact of wars and conflicts on Arab families, single parent families, extended families; stepfamilies, dual-career families; childfree families, division of household labor.
Marriage in the Arab world: Patterns of marriage formation (eg: Mixed marriages and Misyyar); marriage and immigration, delayed marriage, remarriage, mate-selection, singlehood.
Parenting and parenthood in the Arab world: The impact of wars and conflicts on parent-child relationship, parenting styles and practices, impact of parenting styles on children’s well-being, parents’ engagement in children’s academic life, motherhood, fatherhood, delayed parenthood, transition to parenthood.
Divorce in the Arab world: Social and individual risk factors associated with divorce; social, economic, and emotional effects of divorce; the impact of divorce on children (e.g., academic performance, antisocial behaviour, and psychological wellbeing). For researchers from non- Arab countries, the grant offers the opportunity to participate as collaborative partners with Qatari or Arab-based institutions. The total award amount is to be divided among the investigators/institutions involved in the collaborative teams.
The proposals may be submitted from December 5 until February 13 next year through the website: https://www.qgrants.org/. The Grant Application Guide (GAG) is available for download and the site will be active from December 5 noon.
In the first OSRA cycle grants were awarded to researchers from Qatar, Lebanon, Morocco and Oman.
