The Office of Foundations Relations is pleased to share this open call for funding from the Sloan Foundation. Please forward the call to interested faculty and graduate students in your departments and divisions.
UCSC Contact: Sarah Carle | FR | sacarle@ucsc.edu
Funder: Sloan Foundation
Opportunity: Historical Research on the Practices and Institutions of Social and Natural Science
LOI Deadline: March 16, 2023
Overview:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports basic research and public understanding of science, technology, and economic behavior. We believe that historical scholarship is valuable to understand the contemporary context of scientific research and that historical scholarship can be critically important to informing current and future research and policy practices.
Themes of interest include but are not limited to: the changing nature of interdisciplinary research and collaborative team structures; the role of instrumentation, data, and computational tools within and across disciplines; the changing nature of research organizations; the formation and development of professional societies, conferences, and scholarly communication systems; the establishment and evolution of fellowship and training programs; and the formation and development of research funding agencies.
Cutting across all topics and thematic areas is an interest in examining issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and illuminating the role played by under-represented scholars and perspectives in the advancement and development of these areas.
- Faculty-led research projects of up to $250,000, with the aim of advancing original scholarship on a topic or theme of interest to the Foundation in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science
- Dissertation improvement and completion projects of up to $75,000, to specifically support dissertation research expenses, including travel, archival fees, and data collection, and up to one year of graduate student stipend (including summer funding, but not tuition) on a topic or theme of interest to the Foundation in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science. A faculty member must serve as the principal investigator for dissertation improvement and completion projects.
Award Amount & Terms
$75,000 – $250,000
Eligibility and Fit:
- Lead principal investigator must be a faculty member either based at a United States university or college or working through an existing 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor organization.
- A faculty member must serve as the principal investigator for dissertation improvement and completion projects.
- Submissions from diverse teams led by Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o researchers and/or women are strongly encouraged. Submissions from researchers based at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) are strongly encouraged.
- Projects involving advocacy or lobbying activities are out of scope and not eligible for consideration.
- Researchers may participate in a maximum of two proposed projects.
Timeline
- March 16, 2023, 5pmET LOI due
- TBD Invitation to submit full proposal
- August Award decision (4-8 grants)
Special Instructions:
Please notify the Office of Foundation Relations if you are interested in applying for this opportunity (cfr@ucsc.edu). Please contact the Research Development Specialist assigned to your unit for support developing your LOI or send a request to resdev@ucsc.edu.
Call sent: February 7, 2023
The Office Foundation Relations is a unit of University Relations. The FR team creates and maintains mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with private organizations, matching grant initiatives with educational and research programs and centers. FR supports faculty and staff to identify and approach these and other private foundations and corporations for funding, to assist in strategic positioning of the grant application, and to facilitate funder campus visits.
For a list of recent funding opportunities, please visit the FR website. FR Calls for Funding