Research Grants on Education: Small
Solicitation Title: Research Grants on Education: Small
Funding Amount: $50,000
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, March 1, 2021
Solicitation Link: http://www.spencer.org/small-research-grants
Overview
<p><strong>Spring 2021 Cycle</strong><br>This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. We seek to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.</p> <p>We recognize that learning occurs across the life course as well as across settings—from the classroom to the workplace, to family and community contexts and even onto the playing field—any of which may, in the right circumstance, provide the basis for rewarding study that makes significant contributions to the field. We value work that fosters creative and open-minded scholarship, engages in deep inquiry, and examines robust questions related to education. To this end, this program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their career. We anticipate that proposals will span a wide range of topics and disciplines that innovatively investigate questions central to education, including for example education, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, economics, history, or neuroscience, amongst others.</p> <p>Moreover, we expect and welcome methodological diversity in answering pressing questions; thus, we are open to projects that utilize a wide array of research methods including quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, ethnographies, design-based research, participatory methods, and historical research, to name a few. We are open to projects that might incorporate data from multiple and varied sources, span a sufficient length of time as to achieve a depth of understanding, or work closely with practitioners or community members over the life of the project.</p> <p>Proposals to the Research Grants on Education program must be for academic research projects that aim to study education.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>PIs and Co-PIs may only hold one active research grant from the Spencer Foundation at a time. PIs and Co-PIs may not submit more than one research proposal to the Spencer Foundation at a time. This restriction applies to the Small Grants Program, Large Grants Program, and Research-Practice Partnership Program. If the PI or any of the Co-PIs currently have a research proposal under consideration in any of these programs, they are required to wait until a final decision has been made on the pending proposal before they can submit a new proposal.</p> <p>Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects). Additionally, proposals for research studies focused on areas other than education, are not eligible.</p> <p>Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Small Research Grant on Education must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. While graduate students may be part of the research team, they may not be named the PI or Co-PI on the proposal.</p> <p>Projects proposed may not be longer than 5 years in duration.</p> Other Information:<p>Eligible investigators may also request additional supplemental funds for a course release. Proposals are accepted from the U.S. and internationally, however, all proposals must be submitted in English and budgets must be proposed in U.S. Dollars. We accept applications three times per year.</p> <p><strong>Future Deadlines</strong><br>Summer 2021 Cycle Full Proposal Deadline: June 1, 2021<br>Winter 2021 Cycle Full Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2021</p>Last Updated:
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