Research grants

Courtesy of the Daily Grail, news that the University of West Georgia is inaugurating a biennial fellowship worth around $3000, open to people "engaged in graduate-level, postdoctoral, or independent research" (though not members of the general public   ) "working on projects that require on-site consultation of University of West Georgia parapsychology collections in Ingram Library's Special Collections":
https://www.westga.edu/library/special-c...owship.php

What is a parapsychology collection ? Also I don't really think 3000 dollars is going to either persuade or otherwise, anyone to dive in to a new project but it's better than nothing, obviously.

What is a parapsychology collection ? Also I don't really think 3000 dollars is going to either persuade or otherwise, anyone to dive in to a new project but it's better than nothing, obviously.

It sounds as though the main parapsychology collections they hold are the papers of Ingo Swann and William G. Roll:
https://www.westga.edu/library/special-c...hology.php

Realistically, I suppose it's going to be relevant to academics already researching remote viewing or poltergeists, and perhaps it might enable them to spend a few weeks in the Summer looking at those archives, for example.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, news that the BIAL Foundation is again inviting applications for grants to support scientific research into psychophysiology and parapsychology:
https://www.bial.com/en/bial_foundation.....a738.html

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is advertising a two-year post-doctoral position, to be supervised by Dr Ross Dunseath:

The position will involve working on research projects of interest to both DOPS and The Monroe Institute (TMI), located 25 miles south of Charlottesville in Faber, VA.  Four days per week will be spent at TMI and one day at DOPS.  Research projects include EEG data collection from program participants at TMI engaged in remote viewing (RV) or out-of-body (OBE) activities.  TMI also has an ongoing 19-channel EEG study measuring steady-state evoked potentials from two types of audio stimulation.  A third area of interest is the measure of correlates, both physiological and novel, of so-called “subtle energy”.
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-stud...-scholars/

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the The Helene Reeder Memorial Fund for Research into Life after Death, a Swedish Foundation, is offering grants to small and medium-sized reearch projects mainly concerned with life after death:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/news/helene-reeder...grant-2019

The Parapsychology Foundation has established the Lisette Coly Award of $1000 to help someone to attend the Parapsychological Association Annual Convention:
https://parapsychology.org/2019-bolton-f...ouncement/

The annual deadline for applications for research funding from the SPR is 1 June. Funding is available for research projects undertaken by individuals and by postgraduate students at universities (which seems to imply postgraduate students aren't individuals, but that's what the web page says) in two categories:
(1) "any recognised area of psychical research not directly related to survival" and
(2) "scientific research into the fundamental question of whether some aspect of consciousness or personality survives the death of the body"
https://www.spr.ac.uk/research/funding-research

The Parapsychological Association has announced its awards for 2019 from the Parapsychological Association Research Endowment, whose purpose is to encourage parapsychological research by students and other researchers. Both awards concern Near-Death Experiences.

One is to Marianna Drinoczi, a Ph. D. student at the University of Lorraine in France under Renaud Evrard:
Drinoczi’s research will investigate the integration of NDEs and its aftereffects in the lives of near death experiencers through creative artistic psychotherapy. A psychodynamic approach views NDEs as psychosomatic reactions to the surprising perception of the proximity of death. These psychosomatic reactions may have an adaptive function to prevent certain adverse effects of trauma. Artistic expression may help psychological integration for NDErs and provide greater potential for psychological growth and transformation. Drinoczi’s research may benefit creative art therapists and psychotherapists working with individuals who have had NDEs or other spiritually transformative experiences.

The other is to Pascal Michael, a Ph. D. student at University of Greenwich with David Luke:
Michael’s research will explore the neurophysiology and pharmacology of NDEs. He will be recruiting individuals who have survived a cardiac arrest and who have also had an NDE, along with individuals who have had no such associated experience as a control group. Volunteers will provide blood samples and as well as undergo an EEG session for the purpose of detecting baseline concentrations of the endogenous psychedelic Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as well as investigating resting cortical excitation-inhibition imbalance and power spectra. Previous studies suggest that DMT models the near-death experience, and that DMT and high-frequency seizure-like activity occur in the dying mammalian brain. Michael hypothesizes that those who had a past NDE will evidence higher levels of DMT and cortical excitability.

https://parapsych.org/articles/37/490/20...rdees.aspx

Applications are invited for research grants by the Perrott-Warrick fund. These are grants for "research into phenomena suggestive of or related to paranormal powers of cognition or action," and are intended for seinor or early-career academics with a record of relevant research and normally experience of parapsychological investigations. But they are available to those from a wide range of disciplines and need not be experimental. They are for work to be carried out in 2020 and won't normally exceed £30,000.

The deadline is 15 November, and applications should go to Professor Bernard Carr at Queen Mary College, London (B.J.Carr@qmul.ac.uk). I assume he can supply further details if needed, as I'm taking this from a flyer distributed by SPR and there's no URL.