<p>The severe consequences of the Covid19-pandemic, including its economic disruptions, and the recent mass protests to combat systemic racial inequality in policing and other institutions have reaffirmed the importance of social science research examining economic, political, racial, ethnic, generational, and social inequalities relevant to public policy and social change. RSF encourages proposals that analyze any of these issues on topics of interest under our Social, Political and Economic Inequality program.
<p>Through the National Center for Education Research (NCER), the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need.
<p>The Urban Institute (Urban), in partnership with UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab, and funder Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) are developing a new research consortium with an aim to launch later in 2022. Under the pilot phase of the consortium, Urban seeks to award up to 3 (three) $30,000 research grants to support early-career researchers in conducting timely research on expansions of the safety net in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that support family economic security and mobility that answers questions of relevance to the current policy debate.