American Univesity of Beirut

Faculty Funding Opportunities

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Faculty members applying for external funding are required to channel their proposal, through the AUB online transmittal form, to campus administrators (Department Chair, Research Committee Chair, and Dean) for review and approval before they are submitted to the OGC and the Office of the Provost for the final review and transmittal. In planning the external proposal submission, please take into account the internal review process in order to allow time for completion.

For information on AUB policies and procedures on external grants, please consult the OGC website.


    Funding Opportunities



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Species Conservation Grants
    Funding agency: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
    Award amount: Up to $25,000
    Application deadline: June 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Fund has been established to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. Its focus is global and eligibility for grants will extend to all plant, animal and fungi species conservation efforts, without discrimination on the basis of region or selected species. 

    Generally the Fund gives priority to those species facing a high threat of extinction (with an emphasis on Endangered and Critically Endangered species), as well as those which are listed as Data Deficient or unlisted but are suspected as highly threatened. The Fund is primarily interested in providing support to in situ conservation work in the field (such as survey work and data gathering, direct action, recovery management, training and the like), focusing on the species in its natural habitat. However, the importance of ex situ work (genetic analysis, workshops, ex situ populations etc) is also recognised, and so a few grants may be given to projects which focus on ex situ conservation work in certain circumstances. Budgets must be submitted in US Dollars. The Fund maximum grant size is $25,000.



    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: Call For Applications | DEA Programme |
    Funding agency: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH)
    Award amount: A monthly allowance of €3,400 for transport and living expenses, for a period of 4—6 weeks
    Application deadline: June 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This call enables foreign scientific professionals from all continents to be invited for a period of four to six weeks to support their work in the SHS in France, as well as the creation of international research networks and contacts with local researchers. Mobilities to all research centers in France are eligible. A monthly allowance of €3 400 is awarded for transport and living expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries). 

    Eligibility: The program is intended exclusively for holders of university professorships or equivalent positions in higher education and research institutions. Candidates must be under 65 years of age at the time of their stay. Priority is given to projects requiring fieldwork (surveys, work in libraries or archives, etc.) in France. Any application for the exclusive purpose of writing an article or a book will not be considered. 

    The projects will be evaluated with regard to the following elements:

    • The scientific quality of the project and the method developed
    • The need to come to France to work on the planned project
    • The feasibility of the project during the 4/6 weeks stay in France



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Wellcome Career Development Awards
    Funding agency: Wellcome Trust
    Application deadline: July 27, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programs of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.

    Interested applicants can apply for a Wellcome Career Development Award if they are a mid-career researcher, and are ready to lead a substantial and innovative research program. They must aim to make a key contribution to their field by generating significant shifts in understanding, and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. During the award, successful applicants are expected to: 

    • develop their research capabilities and leadership skills
    • support others to undertake research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture
    • start training the next generation of researchers and develop their research skills and careers. 

    Applicants’ research can be in any discipline – including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health – as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the organization’s funding remit. They should ask for their salary (if required) and the resources they need for their research program. Further details on funding can be found here

    Successful applicants must be able to contribute at least 80% of their research time to the award. The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as humanities and social science. The award may be held on a part-time basis. The organization will extend the duration of the award to reflect this .



    [Natural Sciences; Social Sciences]
    Title: Climate, Environment, and Health 2
    Funding agency: Belmont Forum
    Application deadline: July 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Belmont Forum launches a call for research proposals to improve understanding among the climate, environment, and health pathways to protect and promote ecological, planetary, and human health in the face of climate challenges. Convergent research and/or transdisciplinary research projects will investigate issues that impede policy implementation; address complex climate, ecosystem, and health pathways to determine processes underlying causal links; capacity development and collaboration across relevant disciplines and institutions; and foster the use of international scientific databases with local knowledge to develop climate-related decision support tools to better inform planning, resilience, and adaptation to climate change. 

    This is an international, transdisciplinary call for proposals with the aims to: 

    • foster global transdisciplinary teams of natural (including climate), medical, and social scientists, and stakeholders to co-produce world-leading research in collaboration with LLMIC communities;
    • develop an understanding of the complex linkages and pathways between climate variability and change-associated impacts on the environment, on exposure pathways for health, and on human behavior and well-being;
    • develop and/or integrate international or national geographical, health, and early-warning system databases that will adopt implementation science strategies with civil society partners (including NGOs) to train a workforce designed by and for the local community;
    • provide applicable information, knowledge, scientific evidence, and effective tools to support long-term policymaking, decision-making, capacity development, and collaboration across all timescales, regions, and disciplines to foster a collaborative community of practice for climate, environment, and health; and
    • include systems-level approaches at the intersection of climate, environment, and health to incorporate underrepresented communities of different socioeconomic, cultural, gender, and minorities into a comprehensive climate resilient health system, as defined by the WHO. 

    Therefore, the Belmont Forum has prioritized the following three themes for this call. Projects must include Theme A, and include Theme B and/or Theme C. Any projects that do not include Theme A, will be ineligible. 

    • Theme A: Decision-science of environmental behavior and implementation
    • Theme B: Food, Environment, and Biological Security
    • Theme C: Climate Risks to Ecosystems & Populations

      More details can be found here.


    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: APF Division 39 Marsha D. McCary Fund Grant for Psychoanalysis
    Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
    Award amount: Up to $10,000
    Application deadline: August 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Marsha D. McCary Division 39 Fund for Psychoanalysis, named for the Fund’s founder, gives annual grants to recognize and promote the contributions of psychoanalysis to psychology and to societal well-being more generally. Through the annual grants, Division 39 seeks to advance psychoanalysis by supporting new developments in education, research and service that demonstrate the value of psychoanalytic principles and treatments to the​​​​ public. The 2023 preference will be given to applications that increase public awareness of the benefits of psychoanalytic principles and treatments. 

    Eligibility: Applicants must have a demonstrated knowledge of psychoanalytic principles; should have a long-term interest in communicating to the public the value of psychoanalytic principles and/or treatments; and must agree that, if awarded a grant, they will give a follow-up report to the Evaluation Committee on the use and impact of the grant.



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Research grant
    Funding agency: Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)
    Award amount: $40,000- $150,000 for up to 18 months
    Application deadline: July 6, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) is inviting applications for innovative research and interventions that will contribute to the prevention and response of violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality in low and middle-income countries. Types of projects that may be supported under this grant include: 

    • Research projects that are either stand-alone projects or a component of a larger project that will guide efforts to effectively address or prevent VAW and VAC.
    • Qualitative studies exploring the effectiveness and process of creating change with innovative VAW and VAC prevention interventions, or studying the acceptability, impact, and process of change created by interventions that support and assist survivors of VAW and VAC.
    • Projects that aim to address the prevention and response to VAW and VAC together or simultaneously, or through a single intervention with distinct elements.
    • Projects that aim to understand how to integrate programming for VAW and/or VAC into other sectoral work and or large infrastructure development programmes.
    • Projects that develop innovative methods and tools for VAW and/or VAC research.
    • Projects that evaluate how to effectively expand tested interventions for preventing and responding to VAW and VAC.
    • Secondary analysis of existing data that provides insights into addressing VAW and VAC more effectively and sustainably.
    • Research on violence across diverse populations in situations of vulnerability, including but not limited to persons with disabilities, people living with HIV, older persons, indigenous peoples, LGBTQI+ people, refugees, internally displaced persons, and migrants.
    • Projects that enhance our understanding of sexual violence against children or adolescents, including research on interventions to prevent such violence and/or support child and adolescent survivors of such violence. 

    More can be found here

    Eligibility: Organizations or consortia may submit up to two proposals each, though only one will be funded. Preference will be given to proposals submitted and led by organizations based in LMICs. Applicants must be affiliated with a recognized, legally constituted research institution or organization with existing research or programming capacity on VAW and VAC. Preference will be given to academic/researcher – practitioner partnerships. The partnership arrangement – including a detailed description of roles and responsibilities of team members - must be clearly outlined and reflected in the proposal and budget allocation.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Species Conservation Grants
    Funding agency: The Mohamed bin Zayed-Species Conservation Fund
    Award amount: Up to $25,000
    Application deadline: June 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Fund has been established to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate. Its focus is global and eligibility for grants will extend to all plant, animal and fungi species conservation efforts, without discrimination on the basis of region or selected species. 

    Generally the Fund gives priority to those species facing a high threat of extinction (with an emphasis on Endangered and Critically Endangered species), as well as those which are listed as Data Deficient or unlisted but are suspected as highly threatened. 

    The Fund is primarily interested in providing support to in situ conservation work in the field (such as survey work and data gathering, direct action, recovery management, training and the like), focusing on the species in its natural habitat. However, the importance of ex situ work (genetic analysis, workshops, ex situ populations etc) is also recognised, and so a few grants may be given to projects which focus on ex situ conservation work in certain circumstances.



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Marian R. Stuart Grant
    Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
    Award amount: Up to $20,000
    Application deadline: July 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Marian R. Stuart Grant will further the research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health. Examples include but are not limited to research-based programs that teach medical doctors counseling skills; research-based programs on the effect of behavior on health; and research-based programs on psychologists’ role in medical settings for the benefit of patients. 

    Eligibility: APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography. Applicants must be an early career researcher (no more than 10 years postdoctoral), be affiliated with a nonprofit charitable, educational, or scientific institution, or governmental entity operating exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, and have demonstrated competence and capacity to execute the proposed work.



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Wayne F. Placek Grants
    Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
    Award amount: Up to $15,000
    Application deadline: June 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research to increase the general public’s understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that lesbian women, gay men, bisexual women, bisexual men, and transgender individuals experience in this and future civilizations. The Wayne F. Placek Grant encourages research that addresses the following topics: 

    • heterosexuals’ attitudes and behaviors toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQIA+) people, including prejudice, discrimination, and violence 
    • family and workplace issues relevant to LGBTQIA+ people 
    • special concerns of sectors of the LGBTQIA+ population that have historically been underrepresented in scientific research 

    Eligibility: APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography. Applicants must be either a doctoral-level researcher or graduate student affiliated with an educational institution or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization.



    [Humanities]
    Title: Research and Development
    Funding agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
    Award amount: Up to $100,000 (Tier I); up to $350,000 (Tier II)
    Application deadline: May 16, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials. 

    This program supports projects at all stages of development, from early planning and stand-alone studies to advanced implementation. Research and Development projects contribute to the evolving and expanding body of knowledge for heritage practitioners, and for that reason, outcomes may take many forms. Projects may produce any combination of laboratory datasets, guidelines for standards, open access software tools, workflow and equipment specifications, widely used metadata schema, or other products. Research and Development supports work on the entire range of humanities collection types including, but not limited to, moving image and sound recordings, archaeological artifacts, born digital and time-based media, rare books and manuscripts, archival records, material culture, and art. Applicants must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access through a Research and Development project would benefit the cultural heritage community by supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming. 

    Research and Development projects are encouraged to address one or more of the following areas of special interest: 

    • Preserving audiovisual and digital heritage
    • Conserving the material past
    • Protecting cultural heritage
    • Serving under-represented communities
    • Responding to climate change 

    A new area of special interest encourages work investigating the impacts of climate change on heritage collections along with developing responses to advance sustainability and resilience. Further details can be found here​.



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation-Grants
    Funding agency: The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
    Award amount: Up to $50,000
    Application deadline: July 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Foundation supports projects and applied research that: 

    • Generate local or regional solutions to problems affecting the quality of the environment and human life;
    • Advance local leadership and promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences;
    • Develop the capacity of local organizations and coalitions; and
    • Address challenges in the field. 

     The Foundation prefers to support projects that address under-funded issues and geographic areas. The foundation supports special projects and programs of non-governmental organizations in three areas: conservation, food, and health. 

    Examples of areas of interest within these fields follow, but are not meant to be exclusive.

    Conservation: Conservation grants promote environmental conservation through field research, projects, and advocacy that: 

    • Protect biodiversity and preserve natural resources.
    • Help mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.
    • Build the scientific and technical capacity of local conservation organizations and promote local, regional, and international partnerships.
    • Increase engagement between scientists, local communities and organizations, and decision-makers.
    • Partner with indigenous communities and local people. 

    Food: Grants in the food and agriculture program area focus on research-based projects that build capacity for self-sufficiency and resilience to climate change, strengthen local food systems, and support healthy nutrition through projects that: 

    • Enhance food security.
    • Develop and promote sustainable agricultural practices
    • Build the capacity of small-scale farmers.
    • Advance farmer research and research partnerships.
    • Develop environmentally sound and affordable approaches to control pests and diseases affecting important local food crops.
    • Promote indigenous food sovereignty and knowledge systems.
    • Address challenges of uptake and scalability through new methods of extension, education, and technology transfer. 

    Health: The Foundation supports efforts that test new ideas and approaches that promote public health, with a special emphasis on reproductive health and family planning and their integration with other health promotion activities. It favors community-level disease prevention and health promotion projects and efforts that help strengthen regional and country public health systems over disease diagnosis, treatment, and care provided by clinics, hospitals, and humanitarian aid programs. Activities that help increase capacity include applied research, program development, technical assistance, and training projects that:
    • Promote reproductive health and family planning.
    • Address issues related to mental and behavioral health.
    • Address issues relating to pollution and environmental health.
    • Increase the understanding of zoonotic and neglected tropical diseases.
    • Address issues relating to nutrition and health.



    [Social Sciences: Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies]
    Title: Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
    Funding agency: Society for Medical Anthropology
    Award amount: $2,000
    Application deadline: July 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Society for Medical Anthropology welcomes nominations for the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, awarded annually for a significant contribution to scholarship on gender and health by a scholar (or scholars) from any discipline or nation for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced within the preceding three years. The Prize is awarded to the work judged to be the most courageous, significant, and potentially influential contribution to this area of scholarship. Winners receive a $2000 cash award, and are recognized at the SMA Awards Ceremony during the AAA Annual Meeting. 

    Nominations are invited from one or more scholars familiar with the designated work in the form of a letter indicating its impact on the field. Self-nomination by authors, and nomination by presses/publishers, are not permitted.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research
    Funding agency: American Association for Cancer Research; Breast Cancer Research Foundation
    Application deadline: June 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The AACR established this Award to recognize an investigator whose novel and significant work has had or may have a far-reaching impact on the etiology, detection, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of breast cancer. Such work may involve any discipline across the continuum of biomedical research, including basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological studies. 

    Eligibility: Cancer researchers affiliated with any institution involved in cancer research, cancer medicine, or cancer-related biomedical science anywhere in the world may be nominated. Such institutions include those in academia, industry, or government. Candidates must have not yet reached 50 years of age at the time of the award presentation.



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03 - sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
    Funding agency: Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
    Award am​ount: Up to €11m
    Application opens: May 4, 2023
    Application deadline: October 10, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Horizon Europe, under Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, and its climate, energy and mobility cluster, invites applications for HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03 - sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply. This supports proposals that contribute to a more efficient, clean, sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply through new solutions for smart grids and energy systems based on more performance renewable energy solutions. Funding is available under the following topics: 

    •HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-01 - increasing the efficiency of innovative static energy conversion devices for electricity and heat or cold generation;
    •HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-02 - integration of renewable gases, other than hydrogen or methane, and which have not access to gas grids and interfacing with electricity and heat sectors;
    •HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-03 - system approach for grid planning and upgrade in support of a dominant electric mobility using AI tools;
    •HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-04 - digital tools for enhancing the uptake of digital services in the energy market;
    •HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-05 - creation of a standardised and open-source peer-topeer energy sharing platform architecture for the energy sector;
    •HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-06 - components and interfacing for AC & DC side protection system: AC & DC grid, components and systems for grid optimisation. 

    Proposals must take the form of research and innovation actions, and innovation actions. Research and innovation actions and innovation actions require participation by at least three legal entities; each established in a different EU member state or Horizon Europe associated country. Participants from selected LMICs are automatically eligible for funding. Participants from other countries may participate at their own cost. Applicants from the UK and Switzerland should check that funding under this call is covered by their national funding authority. 

    ​​The budget is €58 million. Grants are worth up to €11m each. .



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Kurt Lewin Award
    Funding agency: American Psychological Association (APA)
    Award am​ount: $1,000
    Application deadline: September 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Named for the late Kurt Lewin, a pioneer in the science of group dynamics and a founder of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), this award is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action.

    Eligibility: Nominees and self-nominees should be investigators who have made outstanding contributions to the development and integration of psychological research and social action.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Assembling the Addiction Organelle Interactome
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Application deadline: September 8, 2026
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) encourages innovative studies on the role of organelle interactions and communications, and how organelle dynamics affect cellular homeostasis in the context of addiction.

    Research Objectives

    • Characterize organelles and molecules involved in protein trafficking
    • Develop tools and functional probes to interrogate inter-organelle communications
    • Develop organelle targeted agents for selective delivery to the site of action in the cells 

    This notice applies to due dates on or after June 5, 2023 and subsequent receipt dates through September 8, 2026 ​.



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
    Funding agency: United States Agency for International Development’s Mission in Egypt (USAID/Egypt)
    Award am​ount: Up to $15,000,000
    Application deadline: May 2, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Ending violence against women and girls requires multi-faceted responses and commitment from all stakeholders, including government, public international organizations, civil society, religious and community leaders, academic institutions, and other citizens. The term Violence against Women and Girls includes female genital mutilation and/or cutting, child, early and forced marriage and seasonal marriage as a form of trafficking in persons. 

    To achieve the overarching goal of working to end violence against women and girls, the Ending Violence against Women and Girls Activity will focus on two approaches:(i) prevention by supporting positive social norm change to end violence against women and girls through local and national outreach efforts; promoting targeted community-led initiatives and strengthening the implementation of legal and policy framework criminalizing violence against women and girls, and(ii) response by expanding access to quality integrated violence against women and girls services and responsive interventions such as medical, psycho-social, and legal support through building the capacity of first responders and supporting an integrated referral mechanism for all victims of violence against women and girls. The Activity responds to the U.S. Government’s and the Government of Egypt’s (GOE) shared policy priorities on gender equality and female empowerment. 

    More details can be found here​.



    [Humanities; Social Sciences; Sciences]
    Title: The ILO-France chairs 2024-2025
    Funding agency: Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France
    Award am​ount: Determined on a case-by-case basis
    Application deadline: June 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The “ILO-France” chairs offer each year a residency at the IAS-Nantes to a researcher, whose work contributes to a better understanding of the stakes at work in the field of labour, under the aegis of ‘decent work’ at large. These chairs are open to any researcher around the world from any research field (history, economy, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, literature, etc.) They will be given the opportunity to come for an academic year (October to June) in France, in order to bond durably not only with the residents of their cohort, but also with the best research teams in France and in Europe in the field of labour, employment and social security studies.



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: Research Grant
    Funding agency: Brain Aneurysm Foundation (BAF)
    Award am​ount: Up to $50,000
    Application deadline: May 5, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Brain Aneurysm Foundation invites applications for basic scientific research directed at early detection, improved treatment modalities, and technological advances that will ultimately improve outcomes for patients with brain aneurysms, as well as projects that are translational, clinical/outcome, early detection, imaging, and SAH/SAH complications focused. This year the foundation is also considering AI focused projects. Any project with the potential to advance basic scientific, translational, and clinical brain aneurysm research will be considered.



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award
    Funding agency: Society for the Study of Social Problems
    Award am​ount: $500
    Application deadline: April 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award for the best paper on Women and Social Justice was established in 2015 and is awarded annually with a stipend of $500. Arlene Kaplan Daniels was the first female editor of Social Problems (1975-1978) and became the Society’s President in 1986. Her scholarship addressed women’s exclusion in the labor market and examined women’s career contingencies, union involvement, feminist networking, and the salience of women’s voluntary work. Her scholarship has made an important contribution to the discipline through its unparalleled awareness of women’s contribution to society. This scholarship found its way into her 1987 SSSP Presidential Address “Invisible Work” and her 1988 book, Invisible Careers. She supported other women sociologists across the discipline and professional associations through mentoring, preparing references, and editing papers.

    Eligiblity:The award will be given for a paper published in calendar years 2021 or 2022 that: 

    -Addresses contemporary issues of women’s justice locally, nationally, and globally;
    -Brings a fresh perspective to women’s inclusion in global society and advances new theoretical directions discussing women and social justice;
    -Is theoretically informed and possesses an empirical orientation ​

    All online nominations must be submitted no later than April 15, 2023. The 2023 award will be presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, August 18-20, 2023.​



    [Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Title: IASA Research Grants
    Funding agency: International Association for the Study of Arabia
    Award am​ount: Up to £2,000 for postdoctoral researchers
    Application deadline: May 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The IASA grants are intended to support research in any academic area covered by the IASA’s aims, which are to promote research relating to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular, its archaeology, art, culture, epigraphy, ethnography, geography, geology, history, languages, literature and natural history. Grants may be used to fund fieldwork, library or laboratory-based research or research support. Individuals or groups can apply but the Principal Investigator (PI) of any project must make and be responsible for the application.

    Eligiblity: Applicants to the Main Research Grants should normally hold a doctorate at the time of application. The grants are available to researchers of any nationality. ​



    [Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Title: Funding Programme Lost Cities
    Funding agency: Gerda Henkel Stiftung
    Award am​ount: €2,300 per month for post-doctoral researchers; €3,100 per month for researchers with a post-doctoral lecturer qualification, and additional support such as travel and family allowances
    Application deadline: May 24, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The funding programme is designed to be interdisciplinary and to facilitate projects in which there are varied dimensions to the examination of abandoned cities. At the same time, there should be a focus on causal correlations, both with regard to specific individual cultures and spanning all cultures, and on specifics of place and time. Thus far, such places have emerged for very different reasons, including military destruction, natural disasters, epidemics, environmental pollution, economic collapse, financial speculation, mobility, migration, centralization, deindustrialization, or post-colonial change, to name but a few.

    The aim of the programme is to describe the tangible cultures of interpretation, knowledge and perception within these different contexts. Lost Cities are part of a distinct culture of memory, for example, which serves for the negotiation of identities, the preservation of knowledge cultures, the formulation of criticism of progress, or the construction of mythical or sacral topographies as part of a veritable “ruin cult”. On this basis, the focus here should not be on the question of which factors led to the city’s abandonment. Rather, it is the abandoned cities themselves that are of particular interest, as well as the different forms of their interpretation, instrumentalization and coding in various cultures and time frames. The maximum duration is 36 months.

    Eligiblity:Eligible to apply are post-doctoral researchers based in a university and working in the area of the humanities and the social sciences. Funding can be provided for projects with a thematic focus being addressed by a group of researchers. The Foundation uses the term “group of researchers” to mean associations of at least two researchers actively involved in the project work which is to be funded by means of scholarships from the Foundation and who are carrying out research into the same issues. Applications can only be made for PhD or research scholarships. Applications for a research scholarship by the applicant (project leader) are also possible.



    [Social Sciences: Education]
    Title: Research Grants on Education: Large – Spencer Foundation
    Funding agency: Spencer Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $500,000
    Intent to Apply form submission deadline: April 27, 2023 12:00 noon Central Time
    Application deadline: May 24, 2023 12:00 noon Central Time
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Intent to Apply forms are accepted twice a year. 

    This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The 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.

    Eligiblity: Proposals to the Research Grants on Education program must be for academic research projects that aim to study education. Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects). Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Large 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. 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. ​



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: Racial Equity Research Grants
    Funding agency: Spencer Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $75,000
    Intent to Apply Form Deadline: May 16, 2023
    Application deadline: June 14, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. They are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. Thus, they are interested in research projects that seek to envision educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges and that reach beyond documenting conditions and paradigms that contribute to persistent racial inequalities. 

    Their 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 relation to racial equity in education. In this cycle of funding, The organization will continue to fund scholarship focused on a range of communities and issues with respect to equity. They encourage proposals from across the methodological spectrum, including qualitative methods, mixed-methods, and quantitative methods. They want to especially encourage proposals that utilize QuantCrit methods, social network analysis, geo-spatial mapping, and other quantitative methods that use critical lenses. 

    As with other Spencer grant programs, this program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not required to be developed around a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or geographic location. Applications will be accepted for projects ranging from one to five years with budgets up to $75,000.

    Eligibility: Proposals to the Racial Equity Research Grants program must be for academic research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education, broadly conceived. Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects).​



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: DRL Inclusive Approaches to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Northern Central America
    Funding agency: U.S. Department of State; Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL)
    Award am​ount: Up to $2,000,000
    Application deadline: April 12, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support the policy objective to advance the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) by promoting gender equality and addressing gender-based, including sexual and domestic violence in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. This NOFO supports the leadership of the White House Gender Policy Council; the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality; the direction of the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally; and the Root Causes Strategy (Pillar V: Combatting sexual, gender-based, and domestic violence).

    DRL’s goals of this program are : 1) that local organizations build their network and ability to respond to GBV; 2) to ensure that women and girls in all their diversity, are safe from violence; 3) which will enable them to advocate and organize on their own behalf, for equal rights, to remove barriers to services, to improve access to survivor-centered justice, and to safely participate in all aspects of public life. The program should take an intersectional approach by accounting for the ways in which Indigenous women, women from socially excluded communities, LBTQI+ women, women with disabilities, low-income women, women in public-facing positions, women from racial and ethnic minority communities, and other intersections are further impacted the dynamic of gender-based violence. 

    The program objectives are: 1) women and girls from marginalized communities in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are knowledgeable about their rights and safely engage with community leaders and reporting mechanisms to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, harassment, and abuse; and 2) networks and capacity of local civil society organizations and collectives that represent and support vulnerable women can advocate together, exchange knowledge and promising practices with one another to better support survivors of GBV and the rights and safety of girls and women and 3) marginalized women from all communities, including women with disabilities, indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, rural, LBTQI+, returnees, and young women are engaged in accessing justice and do so.


    Eligiblity: DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology; Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Computational Approaches for Validating Dimensional Constructs of Relevance to Psychopathology (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $500,000
    Letter of Intent deadline: October 1, 2023
    Application deadline: November 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for research projects that will use computational approaches to test the validity of dimensional constructs in the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) matrix​ (or similar constructs based on comparable criteria). Some elements of the RDoC matrix have been updated since its first release, but a thorough data-driven validation that broadly explores, compares, and validates the constructs within the matrix has not been performed. 

    This FOA seeks research that addresses the following questions: Do the different domains of behavior segregate from each other? How much do they rely on distinct versus overlapping neural circuits? What are the relationships between domains, constructs, and subordinate sub-constructs, both in terms of their correlational structure and their underlying neural circuitry? By answering these questions, proposed research projects will test integrative models of functioning and identify dysregulation in psychopathology-related mechanisms that may cut across traditional diagnostic categories and may change over time. This FOA seeks to promote projects where the computational and the experimental components are well integrated. To ensure ecological validity of these studies, models derived from lab-based behavioral tasks will need to be tested for generalizability to behavioral data collected in a real-world setting. The ultimate goal is to advance translational research that will identify novel classification approaches and/or treatment targets, and lead to more effective and timely interventions for serious mental illnesses.​


    Eligiblity: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. ​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Building in vivo Preclinical Assays of Circuit Engagement for Application in Therapeutic Development (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $250,000
    Application deadline: June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024; October 5, 2024; February 5, 2025; June 5, 2025
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The goal of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to identify, in animals, in vivo neurophysiological and behavioral measures for use as assays in the early screening phase of treatment development. This FOA will support efforts to optimize and evaluate measures of neurophysiological and behavioral processes that may serve as pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) markers of neural processes of clinical interest based on available knowledge of the neurobiology of mental illnesses. The screening assays developed from this FOA are expected to build upon systems neurobiology and clinical neuroscience to enhance the scientific value of preclinical animal data contributing to a therapeutic development pipeline in which treatment candidates and therapeutic targets can be evaluated for their ability to impact neurobiological mechanisms of potential clinical relevance to mental illnesses.
    Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. It is expected that budgets of $250,000 direct costs per year or less will be adequate for most projects proposing to optimize just one measure.​


    Eligiblity: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and women are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. ​



    [Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Title: U.S. Embassy Beirut, Lebanon PDS Annual Program Statement
    Funding agency: FY23 Public Diplomacy Funding; U.S. Mission to Lebanon
    Award am​ount: Up to $450,000
    Internal AUB deadline: March 22, 2023 (for cycle I); May 30, 2023 (for cycle II)
    External submission deadline: April 11, 2023 (for cycle I); June 20, 2023 (for cycle II)
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    PDS Beirut invites proposals for projects that address one or more of the thematic priorities listed below. All projects must include an American cultural element or a connection with American expert(s), organization(s), or institution(s) in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. values, policies, and/or perspectives. Proposals with diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or accessibility components are highly encouraged. 

    Priority Program Themes

    PDS Beirut seeks proposals that address the following priority program themes:

    • Inclusive/creative approaches to civic engagement, good governance, free speech/expression, and/or advancing human rights. 
    • English Language learning and programming. 
    • Educational partnerships between Lebanese and American academic institutions. 
    • Arts and culture programming. 

    Eligibility: 

    PDS Beirut encourages applications from Lebanon and the United States, including: 

    • Registered U.S. and Lebanese not-for-profit organizations, think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience in Lebanon. 
    • Individual U.S. or Lebanese citizens. 
    • U.S. and Lebanese non-profit or governmental educational institutions Only one proposal per institution is allowed. 

    Interested faculty members are requested to submit to the OGC (contact Ms. Leen Haydar lh44@aub.edu.lb) their concept note and budget summary by March 22, 2023 for the first cycle, and May 30, 2023 for the second cycle. The Provost’s Office will review the concept notes and will select one application to be submitted on behalf of the University. The external full application deadlines are April 11, 2023 (cycle I), and June 20, 2023 (cycle II).



    [Humanities]
    Title: Performing Arts Grant – AFAC
    Funding agency: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
    Award am​ount: Up to $35,000 for institutions and collectives
    Application deadline: April 4, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    AFAC’s Performing Arts grant supports traditional, folk, and experimental theater for all age groups, dance performances, art interventions, street art, live art, interactive and site-specific installations, documentary theater, and festivals. It also supports playwriting, acting, directing, dancing, and choreography workshops.When the grant from AFAC exceeds $10,000 yet only covers a portion of the project’s overall budget, the grantee must raise 70% of the remaining budget in order to be awarded the grant. Each applicant (individual or institution) can submit one application in the same grant cycle. 


    Eligiblity: AFAC is open to receiving project applications from all individuals from the Arab region working in arts and culture irrespective of age, years of experience, country of residence (the Arab region or the diaspora), race, ethnicity, gender, or religion. AFAC also accepts proposals from local, regional, and international institutions whose projects are related to arts and culture from the Arab region. These include artistic, cultural, social and educational institutions, galleries, centers and both governmental and non-governmental organizations that engage with regional arts and culture. ​



    [Humanities]
    Title: Visual Arts Grant – AFAC
    Funding agency: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
    Award am​ount: Up to $35,000 for institutions and collectives
    Application deadline: April 4, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    AFAC’s Visual Arts grant supports painting, sculpture, photography, installations, audiovisual arts, publications concerned with visual arts (artist’s books or other), multimedia works. The grant also supports exhibitions, as well as art production.When the grant from AFAC exceeds $10,000 dollars yet only covers a portion of the project’s overall budget, the grantee must raise 70% of the remaining budget in order to be awarded the grant. Each applicant (individual or institution) can submit one application in the same grant cycle. 

    Eligibility: AFAC is open to receiving project applications from all individuals from the Arab region working in arts and culture irrespective of age, years of experience, country of residence (the Arab region or the diaspora), race, ethnicity, gender, or religion. AFAC also accepts proposals from local, regional, and international institutions whose projects are related to arts and culture from the Arab region. These include artistic, cultural, social and educational institutions, galleries, centers and both governmental and non-governmental organizations that engage with regional arts and culture. ​



    [Humanities]
    Title: Creative and Critical Writings Grant – AFAC
    Funding agency: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC)
    Award am​ount: Up to $35,000 for institutions and collectives
    Application deadline: April 4, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Creative and Critical Writings grant provides support to critical writings on the arts and culture, theatrical writings, children and youth literature (including both the adaptation of classical Arabic and international literature as well as original stories), graphic novel, short story, poetry, in addition to online publishing platform. The final product should be in Arabic language. When the amount solicited from AFAC is above $10,000 yet only covers a portion of the project’s overall budget, the grantee is requested to raise 70 % of the remaining budget in order to be awarded the grant. Each applicant (individual or institution) can submit one application in the same grant cycle. 

    Eligibility: AFAC is open to receiving project applications from all individuals from the Arab region working in arts and culture irrespective of age, years of experience, country of residence (the Arab region or the diaspora), race, ethnicity, gender, or religion.AFAC also accepts proposals from local, regional, and international institutions whose projects are related to arts and culture from the Arab region. These include artistic, cultural, social and educational institutions, galleries, centers and both governmental and non-governmental organizations that engage with regional arts and culture. ​



    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: Call for Proposals - “BERYT” (The Beirut Housing Rehabilitation and Cultural and Creative Industries Recovery)
    Funding agency: Lebanon Financing Facility; UNESCO
    Award am​ount: Up to $25,000
    Application deadline: April 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The aim of this call is to provide emergency assistance through grants to affected cultural practitioners and non-for-profit entities operating in targeted Cultural and Creative Industries for the development of cultural productions. Eligible proposals include all activities related to the creation, production, distribution, and exhibition/diffusion of cultural and creative activities as well as transmission of skills in six cultural domains: 

    • Performing arts
    • Visual arts include photography, fine arts and crafts
    • Intangible cultural heritage
    • Audio-visual and interactive media
    • Literature and press
    • Heritage and tourism

    Eligibility: The following cultural entities are considered eligible:
    • Cultural institutions, centers, or associations of a non-profit nature, formal, impacted by the Blast; OR
    • Non-formal associations or local “collectives” impacted by the blast; this definition includes groups of practitioners that work together to make their individual livings as well as organizations of non-profit nature that support practitioners and the cultural life in Beirut;
    • Have proven competence, expertise and experience in one or more of the targeted cultural domains;
    • Having existed and having carried out relevant activities for at least one year and a half when being considered;
    • Impacted by the blast (creative spaces affected performances postponed, ability to support the creative sector impaired);
    • International entities operating in Lebanon are not eligible

    Further details can be found here.​




    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: 2023 Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science – Request for Applications
    Funding agency: Simons Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $900,000
    Application deadline: May 4, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The mission of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. The foundation encourages studies that capitalize on approaches that are informed by recent advances in computer vision, machine learning and speech processing, as well as psychophysics and non-invasive neuroscience techniques (e.g., EEG and MRI). SFARI has a strong interest in developmentally focused studies in areas that include, but are not limited to, communicative, social and ritualistic/stereotyped behavior, as well as sensory and motor function. They also encourage proposals that not only quantify specific phenotypes, but also may contribute to the development of scalable innovative technologies for improving interventions and supports in humans.​



    [All disciplines]
    Title: The Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award -Call For Application
    Funding agency: Arab Bank
    Award am​ount: $20,000
    Application deadline: March 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Scientific Committee of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize for Arab Researchers announces the opening of nominations for the award for the 2023 session (the forty-one session), which amounts to twenty thousand dollars. The award is given in appreciation of outstanding scientific output in the five years preceding the candidacy, the publication, and dissemination of which leads to an increase in scientific and applied knowledge, contributes to solving priority problems locally, regionally, and globally, and spreads the culture of scientific research. This year’s call spans a range of topics in the fields of Medical and Health Sciences; Engineering Sciences; Technological and Agricultural Sciences; Humanities, Social and Educational Sciences; Basic Sciences; and Economics and Administration Sciences.​



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Visionary Grants
    Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
    Award am​ount: Up to $20,000
    Application deadline: April 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

    • applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged);
    • preventing violence; • understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity);
    • ​understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and socioeconomic status);​

    One-year grants are available in amounts of up to $20,000. .​



    [Social Sciences; Humanities; Middle Eastern Studies]
    Title: Fatema Mernissi Book Award
    Funding agency: Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
    Award am​ount: $1,000
    Application deadline: April 14, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Fatema Mernissi Book Award was established in 2017 to recognize outstanding scholarship in studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience. Below is a list of criteria that should be met:

    •  Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023. Authors need not be members of MESA.
    • Subject matter must deal with the Middle East. Areas primarily of interest include Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. Spain, Southeastern Europe, the Soviet Union and other regions also are included for the periods in which their territories were part of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.​



    [Social Sciences; Humanities; Middle Eastern Studies]
    Title: Albert Hourani Book Award
    Funding agency: Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
    Award am​ount: $1,000 ​
    Application deadline: April 14, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Albert Hourani Book Award was established in 1991 to recognize outstanding publishing in Middle East studies. Below is a list of criteria that should be met:

    • Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023. Authors need not be members of MESA.
    • ​Subject matter must deal with the Middle East. Areas primarily of interest include Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. Spain, Southeastern Europe, the Soviet Union and other regions also are included for the periods in which their territories were part of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.


    [Social Sciences; Humanities; Middle Eastern Studies]
    Title: Nikki Keddie Book Award
    Funding agency: Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
    Award am​ount: $1,000
    Application deadline: April 14, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Nikki Keddie Book Award was established in 2017 to recognize outstanding scholarly work in the area of religion, revolution, and/or society. Below is a list of criteria that should be met:

    • Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023. Authors need not be members of MESA.
    • ​Subject matter must deal with the Middle East. Areas primarily of interest include Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. Spain, Southeastern Europe, the Soviet Union and other regions also are included for the periods in which their territories were part of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.



    [Social Sciences: Economics]
    Title: Roger Owen Book Award
    Funding agency: Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
    Award am​ount: $2,000
    Application deadline: April 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Roger Owen Book Award, first given in 2011, recognizes the very best in economics, economic history, or the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa scholarship. The Nominations are invited from publishers and authors for the 2023 Roger Owen Book Award. Below is a list of criteria that should be met:

    • Subject matter must deal with economics, economic history or the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa (Mali to Pakistan) and the work must seek to advance knowledge and scholarship on these areas within the modern period (roughly 1750 to the present). Indeed, the purpose of the award is to encourage work in these fields and areas. The works considered should demonstrate substantive understanding of the historical, social and political implications of economic factors, theoretical sophistication and interpretive elegance.
    • ​Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English* between April 1, 2021, and March 31, 2023. *Works translated from other languages into English will also be considered but will be judged by the same rigorous standards as those for works submitted in English. Authors need not be members of MESA.



    [Social Sciences: Economics, Education, Political Studies and Public Administration]
    Title: Social, Political, and Economic Inequality
    Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $200,000
    Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): May 3, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Russell Sage Foundation invites letters of inquiry for its social, political, and economic inequality program. It supports research on the factors that contribute to inequality in the US, and the extent to which social, political, and economic inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including equality of access and opportunity, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage. RSF is particularly interested in analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. They also support original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities. Proposals to conduct field experiments, in-depth qualitative interviews, and ethnographies are also encouraged. Funding can be used for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. PIs may request up to $50,000 (no indirect costs) when the proposed research project has special needs for gathering data (e.g.: qualitative research), or gaining access to restricted-use data.

    Eligibility: Applicant can be from any country and from any nationality. All applicants (both PIs and Co-PIs) must have a doctorate. All research grant applications must be preceded by a letter of inquiry (LOI). LOIs, and proposals must have well-developed conceptual frameworks, and research designs. Analytical models must be well-specified, and research questions and hypotheses (where applicable) must be clearly stated. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​.​



    [Social Sciences; Political Studies and Public Administration]
    Title: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Programme
    Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $200,000
    Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): May 3, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Russell Sage Foundation invites letters of inquiry for its race, ethnicity, and immigration programme. This supports investigator-initiated research on the social, economic and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the US population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. Preference is given to studies involving multidisciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory and methods of social science research and foster an understanding of how to better achieve the American ideals of a pluralist society.

    Funding can be used for research assistance, data acquisition, data analysis, and investigator time for conducting research and writing up results. Trustee Grants are generally capped at $175,000, including 15% indirect costs, over a two-year period. Presidential Awards are capped at $35,000 (no indirect costs). PIs may request up to $50,000 (no indirect costs) when the proposed research project has special needs for gathering data (e.g.: qualitative research) or gaining access to restricted-use data.

    Eligibility: All applicants must have a PhD or in certain circumstances a strong career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Early-career scholars are encouraged to apply for presidential awards. Applicants from all nationalities may apply and do not have to reside in the US, but the proposed research project must focus on the US. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​.​



    [Social Sciences; Political Studies and Public Administration]
    Title: Immigration and Immigrant Integration
    Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $200,000
    Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): May 3, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Russell Sage Foundation/Carnegie Corporation Initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration seeks to support innovative research on the effects of race, citizenship, legal status and politics, political culture and public policy on outcomes for immigrants and for the native-born of different racial and ethnic groups, and generations. This initiative falls under RSF’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program, and represents a special area of interest within the core program, which continues to encourage proposals on a broader set of issues. RSF and the Carnegie Corporation of New York invite proposals for new research that will strengthen the theory, methods, and empirical knowledge about the effects of race, citizenship, legal status, and the interplay of politics and policy on immigrant outcomes. Because of limitations in government statistics, researchers are curating and analyzing data from both public, and private sources (e.g., specialized surveys, administrative sources from tax, social security and citizenship, and immigration services, as well as social media), and collecting their own data to measure the progress of the foreign-born and their children.
    Examples of the kinds of topics, and questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Legal Status, Naturalization and Citizenship, Mixed-Ancestry, Ethnic Identity, and Integration, Race, Religion and Inequality, Politics, Political Culture, and Public Policy. 

    The Foundation encourages methodological variety, and inter-disciplinary collaboration. All proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks, and research designs. Analytical models must be specified, and research questions, and hypotheses (where applicable) must be clearly stated.

    Eligibility: All applicants must have a PhD or in certain circumstances a strong career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Early-career scholars are encouraged to apply for presidential awards. Applicants from all nationalities may apply, and do not have to reside in the US, but the proposed research project must focus on the US. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here​.



    [Social Sciences: Economics, Social and Behavioral Sciences]
    Title: Future of Work
    Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $200,000
    Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): May 3, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Russell Sage Foundation's program on the Future of Work supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately skilled workers and their families. They seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden their understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. They are especially interested in proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers, today and in the future. All proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and research designs. Analytical models must be specified and research questions and hypotheses (where applicable) must be clearly stated. The kinds of topics and questions of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Causes and Consequences of Job Polarization, Alternative Work Arrangements, The Changing Legal Environment, Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work, Workforce Development and Training, Changing Economies, Changing Families and Policy Responses.

    Eligibility: All applicants must have a PhD or in certain circumstances a strong career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Applicants from all nationalities may apply and do not have to reside in the US, but the proposed research project must focus on the US. A brief letter of inquiry must precede a full proposal. All applications must be submitted through the Foundation's online submission system. LOIs must include specific information about the proposed data and research design. More detailed information on eligibility and policies here.



    [Social Sciences: Economics, Psychology, Sociology; Political Studies and Public Administration]
    Title: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
    Funding agency: Russell Sage Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $200,000 ​
    Application deadline(Letter of Inquiry): May 3, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration. RSF seldom supports studies focused on educational processes or curricular issues but does prioritize analyses of inequities in educational attainment or student performance. The kinds of topics and questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Biases and Misperceptions, Institutions; Policies, Social Structures and Networks, Motivations; Incentives and Choice Architecture; Habits, Time Preferences, Mental Bandwidth and Behavior Change; Affect and Emotions. RSF is interested in supporting research that examines the extent to which emotions influence social, economic, legal, and political attitudes and behaviors.

    Eligibility: All applicants must have a PhD or in certain circumstances a strong career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research. Applicants from all nationalities may apply and do not have to reside in the US, but the proposed research project must focus on the US. A brief letter of inquiry must precede a full proposal. All applications must be submitted through the Foundation's online submission system. LOIs must include specific information about the proposed data and research design. More detailed information on eligibility and policies he​re.​



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: Supporting Excellence & Innovation in Anti-doping Science
    Funding agency: Partnership for Clean Competition
    Award am​ount: Up to $200,000
    Pre-Application deadline: July 1, 2023; November 1, 2023
    Application deadline: August 1, 2023; December 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    With an emphasis on original work that focuses on improving existing analytical methods for detecting particular drugs, developing new analytical methods to test for substances not currently detectable, and discovering cost-effective approaches for testing widely abused substances across all levels of sport, the following areas of investigation reflect the PCC’s current research priorities:

    • Developing methods of cost-effective testing to detect and deter the use of banned and illegal substances.
    • Developing testing protocols to detect designer substances used for doping purposes.
    • Improving existing analytical methods to detect particular drugs, ex. GH, IGF-1, EPO, hCG.
    • Developing analytical methods to detect performance enhancing drugs not currently detectable.
    • Longitudinal urinary excretion patterns, metabolism and dose-concentration.
    • Critical reviews to support interpretation of laboratory data.
    • Alternative specimens, (ex. oral fluid, dried blood/plasma spots) for testing.

    There are no maximum or minimal amounts for grant applications, though the average funding amount is roughly $200,000. Pre-Applications are due February 15th, July 1st, and November 1st of each year. Applicants invited to submit full applications must do so by March 15th, August 1st, or December 1st, depending on the cycle (30 days after the pre-application due date).

    Eligibility: Investigators worldwide contributing to the detection or deterrence of performance-enhancing drugs are eligible for PCC Grants. ​



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: International Climate Initiative- Small Grants
    Funding agency: IKI Small Grants-German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH
    Award am​ount: Up to €200,000
    Application deadline: March 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    These support small organisations to encourage active citizen involvement and local approaches to threats caused by climate change and biodiversity loss. Projects must address one of the following thematic fields: 

    • mitigating greenhouse gas emissions; 
    • adapting to the impacts of climate change;
    • conserving natural carbon sinks and forestry;
    • conserving biological diversity. 

    The funding volume is between 60,000 and 200,000 euros. ​ The call reaches out to small sub-national, national, and regional organisations in ODA-eligible countries to propose small, context-tailored, and ambitious project ideas. Eligible organisations must have at least three years of relevant experience and their average annual revenue should range between 60,000 and 500,000 euros. Projects are identified in a one-stage selection procedure.



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Kuwait Prize 2023 - Cycle 42
    Funding agency: Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS)
    Award am​ount: K.D.40,000 (Approx. $135,000)
    Application deadline: June 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) awards distinguished Kuwaiti and Arab scientists worldwide the Kuwait Prize for their significant and outstanding achievements in research. For the 2023 Kuwait Prize Cycle, KFAS invites universities, scientific and research institutions, and eligible individuals, to nominate Kuwaiti and Arab scientists for the Prize in the following scientific subfields:

    • Fundamental Sciences: Chemistry (including but not limited to): Organic & Inorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry. Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry & Quantum Chemistry. 
    • Applied Sciences: Hydrology (including but not limited to): Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing to Water Resources, Ecohydrology, Hydrochemistry, Hydrometeorology, Hydromorphology, Water Quality Improvement & Aquatic Resources Management. 
    • Economics and Social Sciences: Psychology (including but not limited to): Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology & Psychopathology, Experimental Psychology & Cyberpsychology. 
    • Humanities, Arts and Literature: Comparative & World Literatures (including but not limited to): Cultural & Literary Relations Across National Borders, History of World Literary Relations, Literature & other Disciplines such as the Fine Arts/Visual Arts, Sociology, Philosophy, as well as Studies in World Literatures. 
    • ​Emerging Interdisciplinary Sciences: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (including but not limited to): Expert Systems, Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Large Data Mining, Natural Languages Processing, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Automation & Cyber Security. ​

    Eligibility: KFAS accepts nominations from universities, academic and research institutions, former laureates of the Kuwait Prize, and peers of the nominees. Nominations from political entities are not accepted. KFAS accepts self-nominations. Self- nominees must provide a statement outlining the basis for their eligibility for nomination and the significance of their research production. The nominee must be from an Arab nationality and have proof of Arabic origin, such as an Arabic birth certificate, a valid Arabic passport, or a relevant document.

    Nominations must be submitted no later than Friday, 30th June 2023.


    [Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Title: DRL FY2022: Leveraging Intersectionality to Ensure Zero Obstruction to Women's Empowerment
    Funding agency: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)
    Award am​ount: Up to $1,000,000
    Application deadline: March 22, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The DRL requests proposals specifically focused on women from marginalized communities who face compounded discrimination and violence, as well as significant barriers to exercising their human rights, fundamental freedoms, and dignity. DRL is particularly concerned with the status of women and girls from marginalized communities who experience heightened discrimination, violence, and inequality from emerging and growing global challenges, including gender-based violence, disinformation, migration, food insecurity, economic inequality, conflict and crisis, and climate change. Women are often excluded from power and decision-making entities and processes charged with combating emerging global challenges.

    Despite impeding barriers, women from marginalized communities are also on the front lines of mitigating these global challenges and creating spaces for empowerment and support. Addressing their specific challenges and investing in opportunities to advance their skills and bolster their empowerment strategies, will consolidate the personal and collective strength, energy, and impact needed to achieve equity, justice, and equality for all members of society. Program proposals may address communities globally and may be focused on communities in individual countries, across multiple countries, within regions, or across multiple regions. 

    The project will focus on two objectives: 

    • Objective 1: Strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations to address intersectional violence, discrimination, inequality, and other forms of human rights abuse against women from marginalized communities; and, 
    • Objective 2: Creating shared purpose and impact through joint advocacy among civil society organizations addressing emerging and growing global challenges impacting women from marginalized communities and promote women’s empowerment. 

    Eligibility: DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Steven O. Walfish Grants
    Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $2,500
    Application deadline: September 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The American Psychological Association, with sponsorship from the Division 42 Next Generation Fund, invites applications for the Steven O Walfish grants. These support the next generation of student and early-career psychologists in order to expand the knowledge base in the practice of psychology. Research may focus on population‐based practice issues, procedure- or technique‐based practice issues, diagnosis‐based practice issues or service delivery models describing a practice innovation. 

    Eligibility: early-career psychologists, within 10 years of obtaining their doctoral degree, may apply. Only manuscripts that have not been previously published are eligible. In the case of multi-authored manuscripts, the role of each co-author should be described, and the award candidate's role must be clearly primary.



    [All disciplines]
    Title: 3R Liban: Recherche. Réponses. Résilience.
    Funding agency: Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and CNRS-Lebanon
    Award am​ount: Up to €24,000 for 3 years from AUF and up to LBP82,500,000 for 3 years from CNRS-L
    Application deadline: May 20, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The AUF Moyen-Orient, under the Special AUF Plan for Lebanon, is jointly implementing with CNRS-Lebanon the program “3R Liban: Recherche. Réponses. Résilience,” a new mechanism integrated on a call for projects combining support for a research project and integrating doctoral mobility in international partnership. This mechanism aims to support projects with a national impact. It responds to the request of the Lebanese authorities in the context of the crisis and constitutes the AUF's response to supporting the resilience of the national scientific apparatus, for the benefit of universities. 

    The call is open to all disciplinary fields with priority given to research projects related to the multidimensional crisis that Lebanon is going through (economic, sanitary, social, environmental aspects; crisis and disaster management; etc.), aiming to contribute to the national response to the crises, with a short-term or long-term impact. ​



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Programme CÈDRE 2024
    Funding agency: Implemented in Lebanon by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education;​​ Implemented in France by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation (MESRI)
    Award am​ount: €10,000 ̶ €18,000 for 2 years, with a maximum of €9,000 per year
    Application deadline: April 27, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    CÈDRE is the Franco-Lebanese Hubert Curien Partnership (PHC). The objective of the program is to develop, in an incubator logic, scientific and technological exchanges between laboratories of the two countries, in particular by promoting new collaborations, the participation of young researchers and doctoral students, as well as the creation of Franco-Lebanese research teams with a co-diploma training mainly at the doctorate level. All research fields are concerned. Projects involving an interdisciplinary approach are encouraged. Particular attention will be accorded to projects contributing to the development of research in Lebanon, and to the objective of economic and social development of Lebanon.



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Wellcome Career Development Awards
    Funding agency: Wellcome Trust
    Award am​ount: to be determined
    Application deadline: April 4, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programs of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.

    Interested applicants can apply for a Wellcome Career Development Award if they are a mid-career researcher, and are ready to lead a substantial and innovative research program. They must aim to make a key contribution to their field by generating significant shifts in understanding, and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research.

    During the award, successful applicants are expected to:

    • develop their research capabilities and leadership skills
    • support others to undertake research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture
    • start training the next generation of researchers and develop their research skills and careers. 

    Applicants’ research can be in any discipline – including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), experimental medicine, humanities and social science, clinical/allied health sciences, and public health – as long as it has the potential to improve human life, health and wellbeing, and aligns with the organization’s funding remit. They should ask for their salary (if required) and the resources they need for their research program. Further details on funding can be found here.

    Successful applicants must be able to contribute at least 80% of their research time to the award. The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as humanities and social science. The award may be held on a part-time basis. The organization will extend the duration of the award to reflect this.



    [Humanities: Archaeology]
    Title: Research Grant
    Funding agency: Leakey Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $30,000
    Application deadline: July 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related to human origins, including paleoanthropology, genetics, primate behavior and the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Priority of funding is commonly given to exploratory phases of promising new research projects that meet the stated purpose of the Foundation. 

    Eligibility: Advanced doctoral students (advanced to candidacy – all but dissertation) and established scientists are eligible for Leakey Foundation Research Grants. There are no citizenship restrictions. All applications must be written in English.



    [Quantitative Thought]
    Title: Allen Newell Award
    Funding agency: Association for Computing Machinery
    Award am​ount: $10,000
    Application deadline: December 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Association for Computing Machinery, with funding from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, invites nominations for the Allen Newell award. This recognizes an individual for career contributions in computer science, or work that bridges computer science and other disciplines. Key factors in evaluating nominations thus include both the quality of the contributions and their breadth across computer science – with contributions to artificial intelligence being of particular note – plus the significance of the bridges created to other disciplines.​



    [Humanities]
    Title: Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations
    Funding agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $300,000
    Application deadline: November 29, 2023
    Application available: August 11, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to learning and research but are currently inaccessible or are available only in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but other types of work, such as musical notation, may also be the subject of an edition.​



    [Humanities]
    Title: Research and Development / Long-term Research Grants
    Funding agency: Henry Moore Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to £20,000
    Application deadline: March 1, 2023; May 26, 2023; August 29, 2023; November 29, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Henry Moore Grants continue Moore's legacy by supporting sculpture across historical, modern, and contemporary registers, and seeking to fund research that expands the appreciation of sculpture. Available to organizations only, these grants support extended research projects requiring funding for more than one year, e.g. a permanent collection catalogue. Grants can be awarded up to £20,000. 

    The foundation welcomes applications four times per year, at the following times: 

    1 February, 9:00 – 1 March, 23:00
    1 May, 9:00 – 26 May, 23:00
    1 August, 9:00 – 29 August, 23:00
    1 November, 9:00 – 29 November, 23:00

    *All times GMT



    [Education]
    Title: Research Grants on Education: Small – Spencer Foundation
    Funding agency: Spencer Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $50,000
    Application deadline: April 5, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Applications are accepted three times per year.

    This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The 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.

    Eligibility:
    Proposals to the Research Grants on Education program must be for academic research projects that aim to study education. Proposals for activities other than research are not eligible (e.g., program evaluations, professional development, curriculum development, scholarships, capital projects). 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. 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.
    ​ ​​



    [All disciplines]
    Title: The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research
    Funding agency: Einstein Foundation Berlin; Damp-Stiftung
    Award am​ount: Up to €200,000
    Application deadline: April 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research aims to provide recognition and publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and stimulate awareness and activities fostering research quality among scientists, institutions, funders, and politicians. Projects will be competitively selected for funding and internationally showcased. 

    The Einstein Foundation will honor successful candidates in the following three categories: 

    Individual Award: Individual researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers can be nominated. The laureate will be awarded €200,000. 

    Institutional Award: Governmental and non-governmental organizations, institutions, or other entities can apply or be nominated. The award-winning organization or institution will receive €200,000. If governmental organizations or institutions are the recipients of the award, they will not r​​eceive any funds in addition to the award itself. Non-Governmental organizations can be publicly funded; although government representatives may sit on an NGO’s governing board(s), governments cannot unilaterally determine the use of the organization’s funds, its structure, or its activities. 

    Early Career Award: Early career researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers can submit a project proposal that seeks to foster research quality and value for an award of €100,000.

    Eligibility:
    This award is open to any researcher or group of researchers, organizations, or institutions involved in science and research, education, and scholarship. To be eligible for the early career award, candidates must hold a doctorate or have equivalent research experience and should have been an independent researcher for no longer than five years.
    ​ ​​



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: Computationally-Defined Behaviors in Psychiatry (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $275,000
    LOI deadline: October 1, 2023​
    Application deadline: November 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for research projects that will apply computational approaches to develop parametrically detailed behavioral assays across mental-health relevant domains of function. These projects should focus on behavior in humans and test computational models in healthy, trans-diagnostic, unselected, or community samples. NIMH is particularly interested in the study of behavioral measures, models, and parameters that have the potential for back-translation from humans to animals, especially for pre-clinical therapeutics development, and in models that have the potential to be extended to clinical populations. To maximize prospects of back-translation and to provide a neurobiological foundation for future research, studies will need to consider behavioral models and parameters that are linked to the underlying neural processes that may be involved in their computation. Finally, in order to ensure ecological validity of behavioral assays, models derived from lab-based behavioral tasks will need to be tested for generalizability to behavioral data collected in a real-world setting. 

    Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year project period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. The maximum project period is 2 years. 

    Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support. ​​



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: Junior Investigator Global ATTR Amyloidosis Research ASPIRE
    Funding agency: Pfizer
    Award am​ount: Up to $75,000
    Application deadline: March 21, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Pfizer is interested in supporting research proposals that advance our understanding of the epidemiology, basic science and early diagnosis and treat​ment of ATTR amyloidosis through research focused in the following areas: 

    • Epidemiologic evaluations for ATTR amyloidosis
    • Approaches for the early identification and follow up of ATTR amyloidosis patients
    • RW efficacy and safety of tafamidis in the clinical setting for the management of ATTR amyloidosis
    • Evaluation of patients with ATTR-CM presenting with a mixed phenotype (e.g., cardiomyopathy and polyneuropathy)
    • Pathophysiology Individual projects requesting up to $75,000 USD/year for 1 to 2 years will be considered.

    Eligibility:
    The applicant (PI) must be a junior investigator with a professional terminal degree (MD and/or PharmD or equivalent). Applicants must have obtained their terminal degree less than 10 years ago. Applicant must be developing their research careers in ATTR Amyloidosis, and must have a mentor or senior investigator participate as a co-investigator. The principal investigator (PI) and institution must be based outside of the United States.​​



    [Quantitative Thought: Mathematics]
    Title: Individual Travel Research Program
    Funding agency: International Mathematical Union-Commission for Developing Countries
    Award am​ount: Up to €2,500
    Application deadline: April 15, 2023; July 15, 2023; October 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Individual Travel Research Program supports mathematicians from developing countries to travel to an internationally known mathematical center of excellence (worldwide) for collaborative research (minimum stay of four weeks). The grant is intended to cover travel costs of the grantees for up to €2,500 while host institutions are generally responsible for covering the local living expenses.

    This program does not support travel cost to any conference, summer school or workshops. CDC programs do not cover the cost of accompanying family members.

    Additional information​ about the deadlines

    • April 15th, 2023 for research visits starting between August 1st, 2023 and August 1st, 2024 (Decisions will be made by June 15th, 2023)
    • July 15th, 2023 for research visits starting between November 1st, 2023 and November 1st, 2024 (Decisions will be made by September 15th, 2023)
    • October 1st, 2023 for research visits between January 15th, 2024 and January 15th, 2023 (Decisions will be made by November 15th, 2023)​

    Eligibility:
    Applicants must hold a PhD in Mathematics, and must be based (place of work) in a developing country. They should be employed as a faculty member of a university or an equivalent institution. Moreover, they should have already established contact with a mathematician in the host institution and should have a definite research plan at the time of applying for the grant. The applicant should have been granted appropriate leave of absence from his/her institution for the period of visit. Minimal length of visit should be one month.​​



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Research Group Grants
    Funding agency: Bielefeld University
    Award am​ount: Up to €50,000 for visiting groups; up to €400,000 for resident groups, and up to €200,000 for long-term groups
    Application deadline: April 25, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Bielefeld University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) invites proposals for its research group grants. These support the establishment of interdisciplinary research groups. Projects must have an interdisciplinary approach, academic quality, and originality on an international level. The following three different grant schemes are available:​​​
    • Visiting Groups: 1 to 3 months - Funding Amount: up to €50,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops and conferences; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered. Visiting Groups can, for example, explore new research topics and partnerships, finalize interdisciplinary publications or conduct small research projects.
    • Resident Groups: 4 to 6 months - Funding Amount: up to €400,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops, conferences, and personnel expenses (e.g., in the form of buy-outs). Resident Groups may conduct more extensive research projects, which require intensive collaboration over an extended period.
    • Long-Term Groups Duration: several visits to ZiF over a period of up to three years; these recurring visits may add up to a total of ten months Funding Amount: up to €200,000 to cover the costs for travel and accommodation as well as workshops and conferences; personnel expenses (buy-outs) cannot be covered.

    Eligibility:
    ZiF is open to scholars from all disciplines post-PhD, based in Germany and abroad. They can propose a research project to be conducted with a curated group of (preferably) international colleagues. If their collaborative application is successful, ZiF will host the group on its campus, offering ideal working conditions.

    Further details can be found here​.



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Wellcome Discovery Awards
    Funding agency: Wellcome Trust
    Award am​ount: to be determined
    Application deadline: April 11, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing​. A Wellcome Discovery Award provides funding for research expenses. The award usually lasts for 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines, such as humanities and social science. The award may be held on a part-time basis. The organization will extend the duration of the award to reflect this. Applicants should ask for a level and duration of funding that’s appropriate for their proposed research. They will need to justify these costs in their grant application. The research can be in a single discipline or multidisciplinary. An award can be held by an established researcher or a team of researchers led by an established researcher.

    Eligibility:
    Interested investigators can apply for a Wellcome Discovery Award if they are researchers who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas. They must aim to make a major contribution to their research field by generating significant shifts in understanding, and/or developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research. Lead applicants, whether they are applying as the sole applicant or the lead applicant for a team, must have:

    • international standing as a research leader in their field
    • experience of leading innovative and creative research
    • a track record of managing and training others.

    If applicants are based in a low- or middle-income country, they can ask for a contribution to their salary if they hold a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract that states that they have to get their salary from external grant funding.

    Successful applicants must be able to contribute at least 20% of their research time to the program. ​​



    [Humanities: Archaeology]
    Title: Research Grants
    Funding agency: Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
    Award am​ount: Up to £2,000
    Application deadline: March 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology invites applications for its research grants. These support research projects and publications on the post-medieval archaeology of Britain, Europe and the wider world, from circa 1500 to the present day.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants must be members of the society.​​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Discovery of Cell-based Chemical Probes for Novel Brain Targets (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $275,000
    Application deadline: February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023; October 16, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigators who have interest and capability to join efforts for the discovery of cell-based chemical probes for novel brain targets. It is expected that applicants will have, in hand, the starting compounds (“validated hits”) for chemical optimization and bioassays for testing new analog compounds.

    Through this FOA, NIH wishes to stimulate research in: 1) discovery and development of novel, small molecules for their potential use in understanding biological processes relevant to the missions of NIMH, NIDA, NEI and/or NIA; and 2) discovery and/or validation of novel, biological targets that will inform studies of brain disease mechanisms. Emphasis will be placed on projects that provide new insight into important disease-related biological targets and biological processes.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.​



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Social Psychology
    Funding agency: National Science Foundation
    Award am​ount: to be specified
    Application deadline: January 17, 2023; July 17, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology. Projects funded by the Social Psychology Program support the NSF mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense. Proposals considered by the Social Psychology Program must communicate both the intellectual merit of the science and its broader societal impacts.

    Proposed research should carry strong potential for creating transformative advances in the basic understanding of human social behavior. Among the many research topics supported are: social cognition, attitudes, social and cultural influence, stereotypes, motivation, decision making, group dynamics, aggression, close relationships, social and affective neuroscience, social psychophysiology, emotions, prosocial behavior, health-related behavior, and personality and individual differences. Proposals that develop new theories or methods for understanding social behavior are highly encouraged. Research samples should represent substantial ranges of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, and other dimensions of human populations.​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $250,000 per year
    LOI deadline: 30 days prior to the application due date
    Application deadline: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024; October 5, 2024; February 5, 2025
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood. These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment (R01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $499,000
    Application deadline: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate efforts to translate scientific discoveries and engineering developments into methods or tools that address problems in basic research to understand disease, or in applied research to assess risk, detect, prevent, diagnose, treat, and/or manage disease. The rationale is to deliver new capabilities to meet evolving requirements for technologies and methods relevant to the advance of research and delivery of care in pre-clinical, clinical and non-clinical settings, domestic or foreign, for conditions and diseases within the missions of participating institutes.

    This FOA specifies a partnership structure that is expected to help bridge gaps in knowledge and experience by engaging the strengths of academic, industrial, and other investigators. The partners on each application should establish an inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional research team to work in strategic alliance to implement a coherent strategy to develop and translate a solution to their chosen problem. They are expected to plan, design, and validate that the solution will be suitable for end users. Each partnership should include at least one academic and one industrial organization. Each partnership should plan to transition a technology, method, assay, device, and/or system from a demonstration of possibility to a status useful in the chosen setting. Funding may be requested to enhance, adapt, optimize, validate, and otherwise translate technologies that address problems in biology, pathology, risk assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and/or monitoring of disease status.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Social Sciences: Sociology and Anthropology​]
    Title: Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant Competition
    Funding agency: Association for the Sociology of Religion
    Application deadline: March 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Association for the Sociology of Religion invites applications for the Joseph H Fichter research grant. This supports particularly applicants involved in sociological research on women in religion or on the intersection between religion and gender or religion and sexualities. Please note that the Fichter Grants cover only direct research expenses, such as: (1) transportation expenses to conduct research; (2) the cost of hiring a research assistant or transcriber; (3) computer software packages that are not typically provided by a college or university (e.g., specialized statistical software packages). A total of $12,000 is available to be awarded annually, and this amount is usually distributed among several of the leading applications in the year’s competition.

    Eligibility:
    Junior and senior scholars conducting postdoctoral research are eligible to apply. The proposed research must be sociological in nature. Applicants must also be members of the Association for the Sociology of Religion at the time of application.​



    [Quantitative Thought: Computer Science​]
    Title: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01 - A Human-centered and Ethical Development of Digital and Industrial Technologies
    Funding agency: Horizon Europe: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
    Award am​ount: Up to €10m
    Application deadline: March 19, 2024
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Horizon Europe, under Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, and its digital, industry and space cluster, invites applications for HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01 - A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies. This supports projects that set out a credible pathway to contributing to the objective of a human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies. Funding is available under the following topics:

    • HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-06 - Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership);
    • HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-07 - Collaborative intelligence - combining the best of machine and human (AI Data and Robotics Partnership);
    • HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-34 - Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic areas of Digital, Industry and Space;
    • ​​HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-61 - Facilitate the engagement in global ICT standardization development.

    Further details can be found here​.​



    [Humanities: Fine Arts and Art History]
    Title: Grants for Art History
    Funding agency: Association for Art History
    Award am​ount: £1,000
    Application deadline: March 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Association for Art History invites applications for its grants. These support a variety of activities advancing the study and practice of art history. Grants should provide support to aid scholarly research, to develop professional practice and to further the teaching and learning of art history at all education levels. These include support for:

    • Organization of symposia, conferences and workshops;
    • Travel to libraries, archives and collections;
    • Delivery of research findings at conferences;
    • Catalogues and public engagement programmes for exhibitions;
    • Access to images controlled by third party rights holders;
    • Participation in museum and gallery training programmes in curatorial and public engagement areas; 
    • Teachers' continuing professional development;
    • Formal and informal learning opportunities for students.

    Eligibility:
    Early, mid-career and senior scholars may apply. Applicants must be members of the association at the time of application.​



    [Social Sciences: Anthropology​]
    Title: Curl Essay Prize
    Funding agency: The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)
    Award am​ount: £1,100
    Application deadline: October 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Royal Anthropological Institute invites applications for the Curl essay prize. The prize of £1,100 will be awarded to the author of the best essay, of not more than 10,000 words excluding notes and references, relating to the results or analysis of anthropological work, submitted to the Institute by 31 October. Dissertations cannot be submitted unless they have been significantly reworked to be a potentially publishable article. Submitted essays should be of publishable quality.

    Eligibility:
    Researchers of any nationality may apply.​



    [Humanities: Archaeology]
    Title: Julie Herzig Desnick Endowment Fund for Archaeological Field Surveys
    Funding agency: Archaeological Institute of America
    Award am​ount: Up to $4,500
    Application deadline: November 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Julie Herzig Desnick Fund provides grants to archaeologists to start new archaeological survey projects. The awards are intended for projects involving field survey on the ground or a combination of field survey and remote sensing methods, rather than those based entirely on satellite imagery or other remote sensing data. Geophysical survey projects are also eligible. While all are encouraged to apply, preference will be given to archaeologists at an early stage in their careers (within 8 years of the receipt of the PhD).

    Projects may concern any location in the world and any time period. Each project should make innovative use of technology, and the fieldwork proposed should be designed to address important questions about the human past.

    Eligibility:
    To be eligible, applicants must be AIA members in good standing at the time of application, with a PhD in archaeology or a related field, and are expected to have an academic affiliation. Applicants should also be the primary permit holders for the project proposed; if the applicant is not the primary permit holder, the application should be accompanied by a letter of support from the primary permit holder. Awardees must have the permit in hand before funds will be disbursed.​



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Walter Katkovsky Research Grants
    Funding agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
    Award am​ount: Up to $22,500
    Application deadline: March 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The American Psychological Foundation is accepting research proposals, which should be directed to questions and hypotheses designed to improve our understanding based on theory or methods of how psychotherapy promotes behavioral, emotional, or cognitive changes. While the ultimate goal of the research should be to inform the psychotherapy process, its specific focus may be limited to an underlying assumption, hypothesis, or questions; and the actual design may be “clinical” or “experimental” in terms of subjects and procedures. That is, the research design may be a simulation of some aspect of the psychotherapy process (e.g., learning or exposure trials) and subjects may or may not be classified as “patients”.

     The proposal must describe in detail the experimental methodology (i.e., hypotheses, subject selection, and measures of independent and dependent variables, including a description of the psychotherapy that must deal with life problems and emotional/behavioral reactions) and result in the collection of new data.

    Eligibility:
    Psychologists with up to 12 years of postdoctoral experience are eligible to apply.​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes for the Nervous System (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: To be determined
    Application deadline: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    A total of four institutes and offices of the National Institutes of Health invite applications for their discovery of in vivo chemical probes for the nervous system (R01 clinical trial not allowed) funding opportunity. This supports research on in vivo chemical probes for novel brain targets. Projects should fall into one of the following two categories: 

    • discovery and development of novel, small molecules for their potential use in understanding biological processes relevant to the missions of the participating NIH institutes. 
    • discovery or validation of novel, biological targets that will inform studies of disease mechanisms.

    Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Small Research Grants
    Funding agency: Fisheries Society of the British Isles
    Award am​ount: Up to £7500
    Application deadline: January 7, 2023; June 1, 2023; October 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Fisheries Society of the British Isles invites applications for its small research grant scheme. These support small research projects into any aspect of fish biology and fisheries science that is relevant to the society’s objectives.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants based anywhere in the world may apply. They must be members of the society.



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Awards
    Funding agency: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
    Award am​ount: $15,000 ̶ $45,000 per year for one or two years
    Application deadline: August 1, 2023
    Application opens: May 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grants) recognize leading researchers proposing to make a significant contribution to illuminating an issue of violence. The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences, and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.

    The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following: War; Crime; Terrorism; Family and Intimate-Partner Relationships; Climate Instability and Natural Resource Competition; Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Conflict; Political Extremism and Nationalism.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants for an award may be citizens of any country. While almost all recipients of these awards possess a PhD, MD, JD, or equivalent degree, there are no formal degree requirements for the award. The award, however, may not be used to support research undertaken as part of the requirements for a graduate degree. Applicants need not be affiliated with an institution of higher learning, although most are college or university professors.​



    [​Social Sciences: Anthropology]
    Title: JI Staley prize
    Funding agency: School for Advanced Research
    Award am​ount: Up to $7,500
    Application deadline: October 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The School for Advanced Research invites nominations for the JI Staley prize. This recognizes a book that has had a significant impact on the field of anthropology. Nominations can be made by individuals or academic departments. To be eligible for the prize, a book must currently be in print. It must have been in publication for at least two years before it is nominated and for no longer than eight years. Co-authored books are eligible for the prize, but edited volumes and textbooks are not. Second or subsequent editions are not eligible for consideration. A panel of scholars evaluates books nominated for the J. I. Staley prize by the following criteria: 

    • Innovative and rigorous thinking in terms of theory, research methods, and/or application of findings
    • Superior integration of sub-disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary perspectives
    • Significant contribution to our understanding of humankind
    • Exemplary writing and clarity of expression; and
    • Demonstrated or anticipated impact on the field of anthropology​​​


    [​Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Advancing Adolescent Tobacco Cessation Intervention Research (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award am​ount: Up to $450,000
    Application deadline: January 23, 2023, October 15, 2023
    Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days prior to the application due date
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide support for research to facilitate well planned clinical trials aimed at advancing the science of tobacco cessation among adolescents. Specifically, the FOA invites applications for Planning Grants (R34) to inform the planning, design, and initial development of adolescent tobacco cessation behavioral intervention studies, with an emphasis on the critical developmental risk period ranging from mid- to late adolescence (i.e., approximately 14-20 years old). Applications should propose clinical trial planning activities that are scientifically necessary to guide the design and conduct of a future clinical trial evaluating a tobacco cessation behavioral intervention for adolescents. Planning activities could include, but are not limited to, feasibility and pilot studies to assess intervention viability and/or trial design, and testing of recruitment, retention, and adherence strategies to increase participant engagement and scientific rigor.

    Direct costs are limited to $450,000 over a 3-year project period, with no more than $225,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. The maximum project period is three years.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.


    [​Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Transgender People: Immunity, Prevention, and Treatment of HIV and STIs (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
    Award am​ount: Up to $275,000
    Application deadline: December 7, 2022, December 7, 2023, December 7, 2024
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invites applications for its transgender people – immunity, prevention and treatment of HIV and STIs (R21 clinical trial not allowed) funding opportunity. This supports research on transgender people to characterize the biological and immunological impact of interventions used for gender reassignment and their impact on susceptibility to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Grants are worth up to USD 275,000 for two years, with no more than USD 200,000 requested in any given year.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology​]
    Title: Innovative research in cancer nanotechnology (R01 clinical trial not allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Cancer Institute (NCI)
    Award am​ount: Up to $450 000
    Application deadline: November 3, 2022; May 4, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The National Cancer Institute invites applications for its innovative research in cancer nanotechnology funding opportunity. These support projects addressing major barriers in cancer biology or oncology using nanotechnology and should emphasise fundamental understanding of nanomaterial or nanodevice interactions with biological systems. The scope includes research concerning the delivery of nanoparticles and nanodevices to desired and intended cancer targets in vivo and characterisation of in vitro detection and diagnostic devices.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [​Quantitative Thought: Mathematics]
    Title: Mathematical Biology Program
    Funding agency: National Science Foundation
    Award am​ount: To be determined
    Application deadline: Rolling call
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The National Science Foundation invites applications for its Mathematical Biology Programme. This supports research in areas of applied and computational mathematics with relevance to the biological sciences. Proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, biological relevance and significance, and strong integration between mathematics and biology.

    Eligibility:
    Foreign organizations may apply provided they do so in consortium with US organizations. The proposer must explain why local support is not feasible and why the foreign organization can carry out the activity more effectively.



    [Social Sciences​]
    Title: Feminist Review Trust- Grants
    Funding agency: Feminist Review Trust
    Award am​ount: Up to £15,000
    Application deadline: September 30, 2022; January 31, 2023; April 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Trust invites applications to fund projects that aim to further gender equality and end oppression. They particularly welcome applications from non-ODEC countries, small activist groups and projects with an intersectional and anti-racist perspective. They seek to fund innovative and transformational feminist projects. The types of projects that the Feminist Review Trust covers include: Hard to fund projects; pump priming activities; interventionist projects which support feminist values; training and development projects; one-off events; dissemination; core funding; or other projects. The maximum value of an award is £15,000.



    [Natural Sciences: Geology​]
    Title: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology
    Funding agency: National Science Foundation
    Award am​ount: to be determined
    Application deadline: Rolling call
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The National Science Foundation invites proposals for its Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology funding opportunity. This supports innovative research that advances understanding of the deep-time sedimentary crust and investigates environmental change and evolution of the biosphere through the pre-Holocene geologic record. The programme seeks to fund projects that focus on:

    • the evolution of life, ecology, environments, and biogeography based on the study of fossils, sediments and/or geochemical proxies;
    • geological processes forming and shaping the Earth's sedimentary lithosphere – including the study of mechanisms leading to rich organic and inorganic resources locked in rock sequences;
    • new geochronological projects aiming to measure the rate and sequence of events of pre-holocene sedimentary and biological fossil processes;
    • the production, transportation, and deposition of physical, bioclastic, and chemical sediments of the geologic record.

    The total budget is $10,4 million to fund between 20 and 30 awards. Annual estimated program budget, number of awards, and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds and the quality of the proposals.

    Eligibility:
    Foreign organizations may apply provided they do so in consortium with US organizations. The proposer must explain why local support is not feasible and why the foreign organization can carry out the activity more effectively.




    [Quantitative Thought; Natural Sciences​]
    Title: Exploratory data science methods and algorithm development in infectious and immune-mediated diseases (R21 clinical trial not allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
    Award am​ount: Up to $275,000
    Application deadline: July 1, 2022; February 17, 2023; July 06, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invites applications for its exploratory data science methods and algorithm development in infectious and immune-mediated diseases (R21 clinical trial not allowed). This supports exploratory research focused on developing innovative methods and algorithms in biomedical computing, informatics, and data science addressing priority needs across the infectious or immune-mediated disease research continuum. Applications focused on the development of novel computational, mathematical, and statistical algorithms and methods, including artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches, that can considerably improve acquisition, management, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of relevant data or knowledge are encouraged.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences]
    Title: Research Grants Program
    Funding agency: Cactus and Succulent Society of America
    Award am​ount: Up to $3000
    Application deadline: July 1, 2022; February 1, 2023 (annually)
    Full announcement ​ ​ he​re

    The Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA) Research Program provides small facilitation grants ($1200- $3000) to help fund well designed research programs on the botany, horticulture, and conservation of succulent plants. General types of research supported by the CSSA include, but are not limited to, studies:

    • to discover new species or forms;
    • of ecological associations;
    • to increase knowledge of taxonomy, nomenclature, and biogeography;
    • relating to all aspects of cultivation, artificial propagation and mass production;
    • relating to conservation of threatened or endangered species;
    • of basic biology, such as morphology and physiology, especially as these relate to the needs and interests of hobbyists.

    Eligibility:
    Grant applications will be reviewed on the basis of merit of the proposal and the competence of the investigator(s) to conduct the proposed research. The CSSA Research Grants Program is open to all applicants, without respect to gender, age, nationality, or affiliation.



    [Social Sciences​]
    Title: Fund for Innovation in Development Grant Program
    Funding agency: Fund for Innovation in Development
    Award am​ount: Up to €4 million
    Application deadline: Rolling call
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) is an initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. Through flexible grant funding, FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost- effective solutions.

    FID assesses every application against three core criteria: rigorous evidence of impact; cost-effectiveness; and potential for scale and sustainability. The fund accepts applications for five types of grants:

    • Prepare Grants (up to €50,000)
    • Stage 1: Pilot Grants (up to €200,000)
    • Stage 2: Test and Position for Scale Grants (up to €1,500,000)
    • Stage 3: Transition to Scale Grants (up to €4,000,000)
    • TPP Grants (up to €150,000)

    FID accepts applications for innovations in any sector, and specifically encourages applications for solutions in education, health, climate change, and gender equality, for innovations in all low- and middle-income countries. Nearly any type of applicant, including researchers, governments, NGOs and for-profit companies are eligible to apply at any time provided that they are not submitting their applications as an individual (i.e. the application is being made on behalf of or within an established organization), and on behalf of a multilateral or international public institution.

    Further details can be found he​re.



    [Natural Sciences: Physics​]
    Title: Katherine Weimer Award
    Funding agency: American Physical Society
    Award am​ount: Up to $4,000
    Application deadline: April 3, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The award is established to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in plasma science research by a woman physicist in the early years of her career.

    Eligibility:
    The award is open to any female plasma scientist. The nominee's Ph.D. must have been received within the ten-year period prior to the nomination deadline of April 3, 2023. The award consists of $4,000 and funds for travel to the annual meeting where the award is to be presented, as well as a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient. The recipient will be invited to give a talk at the Division's annual meeting.



    [​Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Investigator-initiated research in computational genomics and data science (R01 clinical trial not allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
    Award am​ount: Up to $500,000
    Application deadline: June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The National Human Genome Research Institute invites applications for its investigator-initiated research in computational genomics and data science (R01 clinical trial not allowed) funding opportunity. This supports fundamental genomics research developing innovative analytical methodologies and approaches, early-stage development of tools and software, and refinement or hardening of software and tools of high value to the biomedical genomics community. All applications should address how the methods would scale to address larger data sets and how they can be generalized across diseases and biological systems.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology​]
    Title: Research Grant Program
    Funding agency: A-T Children’s Project
    Award am​ount: Up to $75,000
    Application deadline: rolling call
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The focus of this program is in funding translational and clinical research projects, particularly those projects focused on the neurological problems faced by all patients with ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). The fund is interested in disease-modifying strategies that would prevent, slow, or stop the progression of the disease as well as symptom-improving strategies that address neural circuit function, immune system health and lung function. One- and two-year proposals are funded up to a maximum total direct cost of $75,000 per year.

    Eligibility:
    Proposals from young investigators, established principal investigators and clinicians, scientists from other disciplines, and individuals with innovative new ideas for A-T research are encouraged, from academia as well as industry. Scientists from the US and around the globe are welcome to apply for the funding.



    [Quantitative Thought; Artificial Intelligence​​]
    Title: GoodAI Grants
    Funding agency: GoodAI
    Award am​ount: to be determined
    Application deadline: rolling call
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    GoodAI is continuously awarding grants to research projects that push the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Its long-term goal is to build general AI that will automate cognitive processes in science, technology, business, and other endeavors. The organization believes that big picture thinking and a grass-roots collaborative effort are key for achieving this ambitious goal. Through the grants program, they share their vision of a roadmap towards general AI and invite researchers across the world to tackle the key milestones with them.

    The grant money is being awarded to researchers or research groups for work that can build on and improve Badger architecture. Below is a list of suggested topics: Agent as a society of sub-agents; cultural evolution; artificial life; lifelong learning; modular meta-learning; open-endedness; recursive self-improvement; multi-agent learning; multi-agent reinforcement learning; learned communication; emergent languages; decentralized learning; learned optimizers; optimization in modular systems.

    However, money may also be awarded for “wild card” submissions that don’t fit within these topics. The project proposals have to demonstrate that they will contribute to pushing forward the ideas related to Badger architecture.

    Eligibility:
    Grants are open to individuals and groups of individuals based in any country. Applicants can be independent researchers or be affiliated to universities, non-profits, or businesses.

    The expected duration of the projects is between 12 and 24 months. Successful proposals will include a timetable of the project and the money will be awarded in semi-annual installments throughout the duration of the project. Successful applicants will be required to report twice per year on the progress of their research and must demonstrate that the project is progressing appropriately, and continues to be consistent with the original proposal or updates approved by GoodAI.



    [Natural Sciences; Neuroscience]
    Title: Understanding and Modifying Temporal Dynamics of Coordinated Neural Activity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    Award am​ount: to be determined
    Application deadline: June 05, 2022; October 05, 2022; February 05, 2023; June 05, 2023; October 05, 2023; February 05, 2024
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    A growing body of evidence suggests that optimal cognitive, affective, and social processes are associated with highly coordinated neural activity. These findings indicate that oscillatory rhythms, their co-modulation across frequency bands, spike-phase correlations, spike population dynamics, and other patterns might be useful drivers of therapeutic development for the treatment of cognitive, social, or affective symptoms in neuropsychiatric disorders. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports projects that test whether modifying electrophysiological patterns during behavior can improve cognitive, affective, or social processing. Applications must use experimental designs that incorporate active manipulations to address at least one, and ideally more, of the following topics:

    1. in animals or humans, determine which parameters of neural coordination, when manipulated in isolation, improve particular aspects of cognitive, affective, or social processing;
    2. in animals or humans, determine how particular abnormalities at the genomic, molecular, or cellular levels affect the systems-level coordination of electrophysiological patterns during behavior;
    3. determine whether in vivo, systems-level electrophysiological changes in behaving animals predict analogous electrophysiological and cognitive improvements in healthy persons or clinical populations;
    4. use biologically-realistic computational models that include systems-level aspects to understand the function and mechanisms by which oscillatory and other electrophysiological patterns unfold across the brain to impact cognitive, affective, or social processing.

    Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum project period is 5 years.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    ​[Natural Sciences; Social Sciences]
    Title: Dr. Scholl Grant Program
    Funding agency: Dr. Scholl Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $25,000
    Application opens: October 1, 2022
    Application deadline: March 1, 2023 (available annually)
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Applications for grants are considered in the following areas: Education, Social Service, Healthcare, Civic and Cultural, Environmental. These categories are not intended to limit the interest of the Foundation from considering other worthwhile projects. The Foundation guidelines are broad to give enough flexibility in providing grants. Only one application will be accepted from an institution per grant year. The Foundation only accepts requests for one year of funding.

    Eligibility:
    Non-U.S. grants are given to organizations where directors have knowledge of the grantee.​



    ​[Natural Sciences]

    Title: BRAIN Initiative: New Technologies and Novel Approaches for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute
    Letter of Intent due date: 60 days prior to the application due date
    Application deadline: May 02, 2022; October 28, 2022; May 01, 2023; October 27, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Understanding the dynamic activity of brain circuits is central to the NIH BRAIN Initiative. This FOA seeks applications for proof-of-concept testing and development of new technologies and novel approaches for recording and modulation (including various modalities for stimulation/activation, inhibition and manipulation) of cells (i.e., neuronal and non-neuronal) and networks to enable transformative understanding of dynamic signaling in the central nervous system (CNS). This FOA seeks exceptionally creative approaches to address major challenges associated with recording and modulating CNS activity, at or near cellular resolution, at multiple spatial and/or temporal scales, in any region and throughout the entire depth of the brain. It is expected that the proposed research may be high-risk, but if successful, could profoundly change the course of neuroscience research.

    Proposed technologies should be compatible with experiments in behaving animals, validated under in vivo experimental conditions, and capable of reducing major barriers to conducting neurobiological experiments and making new discoveries about the CNS. Technologies may engage diverse types of signaling beyond neuronal electrical activity such as optical, magnetic, acoustic and/or genetic recording/manipulation. Applications that seek to integrate multiple approaches are encouraged. If suitable, applications are expected to integrate appropriate domains of expertise, including biological, chemical and physical sciences, engineering, computational modeling and statistical analysis.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Extracellular RNA carrier subclasses in processes relevant to Substance Use Disorders or HIV infection (R21- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
    Award amount: Up to $275,000
    Application deadline: March 15, 2022; October 13, 2022; March 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The purpose of this FOA is to encourage research investigating the roles of extracellular RNA (exRNA) carrier subclasses in biological processes relevant to substance use disorders (SUDs) and/or HIV infection, latency, or pathogenesis in the central nervous system. Applicants may propose to investigate biological mechanisms involving exRNA carrier subclasses, or propose to develop improved technologies to investigate extracellular vesicles or other exRNA carriers.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: HEAL Initiative: Discovery and Functional Evaluation of Human Pain-associated Genes & Cells (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award amount: Up to $1.5 million
    LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to the application due date
    Application deadlines: March 17, 2022, July 07, 2022, October 11, 2022, March 09, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to support research that uses human tissue or cells to generate comprehensive datasets for the discovery and characterization of functional genetic elements, epigenetic signatures, and molecular/cellular pathways that underlie human pain transduction, transmission, and processing. This FOA will support concerted multidisciplinary team science efforts that apply large-scale high-throughput approaches on tissues involved in human pain processing as part of the NIH HEAL Initiative’s Program to Reveal and Evaluate Cells-to-gene Information that Specify Intricacies, Origins, and the Nature of Human Pain (PRECISION Human Pain). U19 Centers will operate as a cooperative network to promote collaboration and coordination of research activities. U19 Centers will also coordinate with the U24 HEAL Initiative: Human Pain-associated Genes & Cells Data Coordination and Integration Center that will curate, harmonize, and integrate datasets generated by this U19 research program.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support



    [Natural Sciences: Biology; Chemistry]
    Title: Drug Discovery For Nervous System Disorders (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award amount: Up to $275,000
    Application deadline: February 16, 2022; June 16, 2022; October 16, 2022; February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023; October 16, 2023; February 16, 2024; June 16, 2024; October 16, 2024
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports the discovery of novel compounds for the prevention and treatment of nervous system disorders. Through this FOA, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) wish to stimulate research in:

    1. Identification, design, synthesis, and preclinical testing of small molecules for their potential as candidate therapeutics
    2. Initial hit-to-lead chemistry to improve activity of compounds against the target of interest
    3. Later stage lead optimization to improve efficacy and pharmacokinetics
    4. Initial drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic properties (DMPK).

    Emphasis will be placed on projects that provide novel approaches for identifying potential therapeutic agents.​

    This FOA will also support applications proposing preclinical discovery of biotechnology products and biologics with potential as candidate therapeutics including, but not limited to, large biologic macromolecules, (e.g., proteins, antibodies, and peptides), gene-based therapies (i.e., oligonucleotide- and viral-based), cell therapies, and novel emerging therapies (e.g., microbial and microbiome therapies).

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Basic Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Cancer Institute (NCI)
    Award amount: Up to $275,000
    Application deadline: February 16, 2022; June 16, 2022; October 16, 2022; February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023; October 16, 2023; February 16, 2024; June 16, 2024
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic research studies into the biological/genetic causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities. These awards will support pilot and feasibility studies designed to investigate biological/genetic bases of cancer health disparities, such as (1) mechanistic studies of biological factors associated with cancer health disparities, (2) the development and testing of new methodologies and models, and (3) secondary data analyses. In addition, the FOA will further the development of scientific areas, providing support for early-stage exploratory projects that lead to future in-depth mechanistic studies (such as R01 projects) of the biology of cancer health disparities.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.​



    [Social Sciences: Sociology and Anthropology]
    Title: Engaged Research Grants
    Funding agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Award amount: Up to $20,000
    Application deadline: August 1 (available annually)
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Engaged Research Grants support research partnerships that empower those who have historically been among those researched in anthropology, rather than researchers themselves. Designed in alliance with individuals who have born the impact of various kinds of marginalization, these partnerships bring together scholars and their interlocutors in the mutual production of anthropological knowledge aimed at combatting inequality and promoting the flourishing of human and more than human worlds. The program supports projects that promise to make a significant contribution to anthropological conversations through collaborations in which engagement is a central feature of a project from the very start.

    In the projects funded under the Engaged Research Grant, interlocutors are not simply participants in this research; they have an active role in determining the problems explored. The program targets research that has more potential when done together. The partnerships funded through it begin with the formulation of research questions and can extend to data gathering, skill sharing, scholarly communication, and public mobilization. The engaged research occurs in a broad range of settings, from communities to courtrooms, government offices, and laboratories. It results in findings that are meaningful and potentially transformative for research participants and others with a stake in the collaboration. Through this program, the Foundation seeks to demonstrate how engagement can foster innovation and further anthropological thought. Applications must be submitted using the Foundation's Online Application​.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants must have doctorates in anthropology or a related field or currently be enrolled for a doctoral degree in anthropology or a related field. Applicants enrolled in doctoral programs must apply jointly with an academic mentor. The academic mentor should be the dissertation supervisor or other scholar willing to provide scholarly supervision. All applicants must submit evidence of commitment from the community, such as a letter of support from community leaders, minutes from a community meeting, a research permit, and/or other appropriate indications of support. This evidence must take a form consistent with community processes, policies, and protocols. It should include detailed information on what the stakeholders have agreed to do in support of the project. Qualified postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students are eligible without regard to nationality or institutional or departmental affiliation.
    Further eligibility details to be found here



    [Social Sciences; Humanities; Archaeology]
    Title: Program in Support of Archaeological Field Research in the Development of Early Civilizations
    Funding agency: Curtiss T. Brennan & Mary G. Brennan Foundation
    Award amount: Up to $5,000
    Application deadline: April 15 and October 15 (Annually)
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Curtiss T. Brennan & Mary G. Brennan Foundation, a non-profit organization, was established in 1988 to provide funding support for archaeological field research, emphasizing in particular those regions of the world in which early centers of complex culture or civilization originated. Those areas and periods of the Mediterranean world qualifying include the Bronze Age and earlier of Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant, Near East, Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Italy and the Aegean. Funds are available to a maximum of US$5000 to support independent research projects, initial research designed to establish the significance of proposed projects and the feasibility of carrying them to completion, or to fund ancillary portions of ongoing projects important to an understanding of the project as a whole. Application must be made by the sponsoring institution through the principal investigator. Individuals are not eligible, and dissertation research does not qualify. Support of active field archaeology, particularly excavation, is emphasized. Post-excavation analysis, processing and publication, or other archaeological activities supportive of field research will only be considered in connection with previously funded field projects. Proposals should be made in letter form. The proposal and comments will then be considered by the Foundation's board. If funds are awarded, a report from the institution detailing the expenditure of the Foundation funds, and a report from the principal investigator discussing the results of the investigations should be submitted within six months of the end of the grant period.



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    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Basic Neurodevelopmental Biology of Circuits and Behavior (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
    Funding agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)/ National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    Award amount: Up to $500,000
    Application deadline: February 05, 2022; June 05, 2022; October 05, 2022; February 05, 2023; June 05, 2023; October 05, 2023; February 05, 2024; June 05, 2024; October 05, 2024.
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites research projects focused on the dynamic and mechanistic links between the maturation of brain circuits and behaviors across development in rodents and non-human primates. The goal is to build a foundation for understanding how interactions within and among brain regions change over pre- and post-natal development, allowing for the emergence of cognitive, affective and social behaviors. To this end, projects supported will focus on neurodevelopmental trajectories in rodents or non-human primates and investigate questions using in vivo neural measures in awake, behaving animals. This FOA uses the R01 grant mechanism, whereas PAR-22-067, the companion funding opportunity, seeks shorter, more exploratory or higher-risk R21 grant applications.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Humanities]
    Title: Museums & Galleries Research Award
    Funding agency: Society for Renaissance Studies
    Application deadline: December 1 (available annually)
    Award amount: Up to £1000
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    To foster research on the Renaissance in the museum, archive and library community, the Society for Renaissance Studies is offering a bursary scheme to enable scholars to develop advanced research in the history of art, material culture, ​museum studies, and related disciplines, ​related to the making and collecting of works of arts and objects during the Renaissance period (c.1300-1700), now in museums and galleries. This may include research into new methods of interpreting and communicating the Renaissance, and preference may be given to subjects growing out of a current museum project with a cross-disciplinary approach. Individual awards are offered to provide financial assistance to undertake original research which may inform a publication, exhibition or display. There will be one application deadline per year.

    Eligibility:
    Applications will be accepted from members of the Society, regardless of whether they hold a full time academic post, and from applicants at all stages of their careers. Applicants can apply for any amount between £200 and £1000. This award is tenable for a maximum of 12 months, and it can only be used for one project.



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Exploratory Grants in Cancer Control (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI)
    Application deadline: June 07, 2022; October 07, 2022; June 07, 2023; October 09, 2023; June 07, 2024; October 8, 2024
    Award amount: Up to $275,000
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Through this funding opportunity announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) encourages the submission of exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) applications that focus on different aspects of cancer control by modifying behavior, screening, and understanding etiologic factors contributing to the development of cancer, and developing ways to control cancer. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote the early and conceptual stages of research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance population-based cancer research, such as the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of cancer research (e.g. epidemiologic, biomedical, behavioral, health care delivery or clinical).

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.​



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Study Visit Grants
    Funding agency: Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
    Application deadline: March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1 (available annually)
    Award amount: Up to £3,500
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Study visit grants’ aim is to help finance postgraduate and postdoctoral research in experimental psychology (as defined by the content of The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology). Awards will pay for travel to and accommodation at another institution outside an individual’s academic base. The purpose of the visit is to develop the applicant’s research skills, and may involve learning at firsthand about experimental procedures employed in the host laboratory, or designing and running studies that cannot already be carried out in the applicant’s home department. Awards will not be granted for work which forms an integral part of an existing PhD research project, nor for work which would normally be funded by other bodies (e.g. the applicant’s award-granting body or home institution). Grants will be for a maximum of £3,500 to any individual. In addition, the Society will, on receipt of appropriate invoices, reimburse the institution visited by the student for actual costs incurred as a consequence of the visit up to a maximum of £100.

    Eligibility:
    To apply for an EPS Study Visit, you must be an EPS postgraduate member or a postdoctoral worker who received their PhD within the last five years. Applicants may be of any nationality. It is a further condition of the award that either the researcher’s home institution or the institution to be visited, or both, must be in the UK. Preference will be given to applicants supervised by an EPS member, or whose visit involves a project with an EPS member.



    [Social Sciences: Psychology]
    Title: Small Grants
    Funding agency: Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
    Application deadline: June 1, December 1 (available annually)
    Award amount: Up to £10,000
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Small Grants provided by EPS enable ordinary members of the Society to pursue small-scale research projects that require funding for part-time research assistance and/or other expenses incurred in the running of one or more empirical studies. Applicants are encouraged to consider including participation of undergraduate or postgraduate students on an ad-hoc basis. Awards will not be granted for work that is a central part of an already-funded project.
    It is possible for an ordinary member to submit an application with a co-PI, though the co-PI is listed on the application for informational purposes only. The co-PI need not be a member of the EPS. The maximum value of the EPS Small Grant is £10,000. This sum can be used to offset research expenses associated with the project. Allowable expenses include payments to employ a research assistant, participant expenses (or, for research with animals, costs associated with the use of animals), technical fees, costs associated with the use of neuroimaging facilities, and the purchase of minor pieces of equipment essential to the running of the funded research project.

    Eligibility:
    Any ordinary member of the EPS is eligible to apply for such an award so long as they have not been awarded an EPS Undergraduate Research Bursary, EPS New Graduate Research Bursary or an EPS Small Grant in the current or immediately preceding calendar year. Preference will be given to first time applicants, those at an early stage of career and/or without current grant funding. Preference will also be given to high quality projects that include participation of undergraduate or postgraduate students on an ad-hoc basis. Awards will not be granted for work that is a central part of an already-funded project or PhD.​



    [Humanities; Social Sciences; Medical Sociology, Research Ethics, Medical & Health Ethics; Genomics]
    Title: Ethical, legal and social implications small research grant (R03 clinical trial optional)
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Human Genome Research Institute
    Application deadline: February 17, 2022; June 17, 2022; October 19, 2022; February 17, 2023; June 19, 2023
    Award amount: Up to $50,000 per year
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Small Resear​ch Grant (R03) applications to study the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of human genome research, and identify, analyze and address the genomic technological advances for individuals, families, communities and society . These applications should be for small, self-contained research projects, such as those that involve single investigators. Of particular interest are projects that propose normative or conceptual analyses, including focused legal, economic, philosophical, anthropological, or historical analyses of new or emerging issues. The ongoing evolution of genomic research and health care requires a continuing analysis of the legal and normative underpinnings of beliefs, practices and policies regarding research, health and disease. In addition, as personal genomic information permeates many aspects of society, it has profound implications for how we understand ourselves as individuals and as members of families, communities, and society--and even for how we understand what it means to be human. Long-held beliefs about the continuum between health and disease may be transformed, as will concepts of free will and responsibility. To ensure that genomic research and medicine are built on a solid foundation, focused conceptual and analytical studies are needed that will address these basic issues.

    For small projects that cannot be done within the constraints of an R03 budget - especially those that are primarily exploratory in nature or designed to generate pilot data in preparation for a larger study - applicants should consider PAR-20-2​​55​, the ELSI Exploratory/Developmental Research (R21) FOA, which provides a total of up to $275,000 in direct costs over two years. For larger multi-disciplinary studies that are building on preliminary data and require funding beyond two years, applicants may wish to consider PAR-20-254​, the ELSI Research Project Grant (R01) FOA, which provides funding for up to five years. Note that not all Institutes participating in this R03 FOA participate in the R01 or R21 FOAs.

    Eligibility:
    Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.



    [Computer Science]
    Title: Tech for Healthcare 
    Funding agency: Cisco Research
    Award amount: -
    Application deadline: No deadline
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Technology has already started to make significant inroads into improving healthcare for one and all especially in this post-pandemic world, where the dependence on technology has only grown more significantly, in areas such as remote monitoring, diagnosis, and other forms of administering healthcare to patients that cannot be reached physically easily. In addition, technology has the potential to provide timely and more efficient healthcare at reduced cost that can benefit patients, hospitals, employers, employees and other stakeholders. Cisco is actively soliciting proposals that aim to conduct research in many applications of technology for healthcare applications. Specific areas of research include but are not limited to the following: Techniques for early detection of several acute or chronic diseases (e.g., Alzheimers), including mental and psychological disorders (e.g., bipolar);sensor technologies for continuous monitoring of vitals or other bio-markers for early detection and diagnosis of diseases and issues; privacy-preserving techniques for monitoring and prioritizing patient healthcare in hospitals and public health environments; novel applications of smartphone sensors towards healthcare…​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Basic Research in Cancer Health Disparities 
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award amount: Up to $500,000
    ​LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to receipt date
    Application deadlines: February 5, 2022; June 5, 2022; October 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023; February 5, 2024; June 5, 2024
    Full announcement ​ here

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic, mechanistic research into the biological/genetic causes of cancer health disparities. These research project grants (R01) will support innovative studies designed to investigate biological/genetic bases of cancer health disparities, such as (1) mechanistic studies of biological factors associated with cancer health disparities, including those related to basic research in cancer biology or cancer prevention strategies, (2) the development and testing of new methodologies and models, and (3) secondary data analyses. This FOA is also designed to aid and facilitate the growth of a nationwide cohort of scientists with a high level of basic research expertise in cancer health disparities research who can expand available resources and tools, such as biospecimens, patient derived models, and methods that are necessary to conduct basic research in cancer health disparities​​.

    Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.​​



    [Natural Sciences: Biology]
    Title: Technology Development for Single-Molecule Protein Sequencing (R21 Clinical Trial not allowed) 
    Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award amount: Up to $500,000
    ​LOI Deadline: 30 days prior to receipt date
    Application deadlines: June 15, 2022; June 15, 2023
    Full announcement ​ here

    This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits R21 grant applications to catalyze major advances in single-molecule protein sequencing through technology development. The goal of this initiative is to achieve technological advances over the next five years that enable generation of protein sequencing data at sufficient scale, speed, cost and accuracy to use routinely in studies of genome biology and function, and in biomedical and clinical research in general. Exploration of methods other than those currently in use is highly encouraged. High-risk/high-payoff applications are appropriate to achieve the goals of this FOA.​

    Eligibility: Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.​​



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    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: CBRL Networking Partnership Awards
    Funding agency: Council for British Research in the Levant​
    Award amount: ​Up to​ £2,000
    Application deadline: Rolling call
    Full announcement here

    CBRL is offering its new Networking Partnership Awards for 2021-22. These awards are offered towards the establishment or development of research partnerships in the humanities, social sciences, and related disciplines between the UK and Levant-based researchers (Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria) at any career stage. Funds are available to support researchers undertaking initial exp​loratory meetings or research, with a view to preparing a later application for funding from a research council, the British Academy or similar. Awards may be used to cover round tables, seminars, and/or initial exploratory research costs, including travel and direct costs of primary research including research assistance. CBRL encourages applications under the following research themes: Levantine prehistory: landscape; settlement and networks; cultural heritage: protection, tourism and sustainability; urbanism and empire; identities past and present; Middle Eastern migration and displacement; politics and processes in the Middle East and North Africa.

    Eligibility: Networking Partnership Awards are open to post-doctoral scholars. There must be one named co-investigator (co-I) who is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, and one named co-I who is a Levant based scholar. At least one applicant must also be a CBRL member (you may apply for membership when you submit your application for the award). Lead applicants from the UK and Levant must have institutional affiliations. Awards are not available for the support of courses of study leading to professional qualifications. Postgraduate students and PhD candidates are not eligible to apply. Awards cannot be made retrospectively for research or activities that have already commenced.​



    [Social Sciences: Sociology and Anthropology]
    Title: Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
    Funding agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $20,000
    Application deadline: May 1 and November 1 annually
    Full announcement ​ ​ here

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    The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields. Grants are for research expenses. Applications must be submitted using the Foundation's Online Application​

    There are two application deadlines each year. The May deadline is for those ​applicants requesting funding starting in January through June of the following year. The November 1 deadline is for applicants requesting funding starting in July through December of the following year.

    Eligibility: Applicants can apply regardless of institutional affiliation, country of residence, or nationality. There is no time limit on the duration of the grant and funding may be requested to cover distinct research phases (for example, two summers) if this is part of the research design. Applications are accepted from scholars who are close to completing their doctorate or equivalent degree; however, the grant cannot be awarded until the degree is completed. Note that the Foundation expects the degree to have been completed before the start date for the proposed project given by the applicant on the application form.



    [Computer Science; Mathematics;​ Physics]
    Title: Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS)
    Funding agency: Simons Foundation
    Letter of Intent deadline: Rolling
    Award level: Flexible (funding for up to five years)
    Full announcement here

    The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for its Targeted Grants in MPS program. The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.



    [Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Funding agency: The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust
    Application due date: Applicants must submit a letter of inquiry followed by a full project proposal, if approved
    Full announcement here

    The Trust makes grants to organizations which work in countries in the Middle East including Lebanon. The Trust welcomes innovative ideas in the fields of International Economic Development, Reproductive Health, and Women’s Welfare. Organizations which promote or produce, for example, films, film series, art exhibitions, blogs or popular books are encouraged to apply. Academic research may also be funded. Applicants must present a strong case that their projects will have a broad, positive, and lasting impact on American attitudes towards the people or culture of the Middle East.

    The Trust looks for non-traditional approaches to the challenge of sustainable development on the one hand, and cultural education on the other, but it leaves it to the grant-seeker to come up with and present those approaches. New and emerging methodologies that can use modest amounts of funding to “jump start” larger efforts will be given priority.



    [Humanities]
    Title: Humanities Program – The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
    Funding agency: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
    Application deadline: The Foundation reviews proposals throughout the year
    Full announcement here

    The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects which address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized.

    Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship. There are no deadlines for organizational applications.



    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: JustFilms – Ford Foundation
    Funding agency: Ford Foundation
    Application deadline: JustFilms accepts letters of inquiry for grants year round
    Full announcement here

    The Ford Foundation seeks to reduce inequality in all of its forms, and artist-driven documentary and emerging media projects are crucial to this effort. As part of the Creativity and Free Expression program, JustFilms funds social justice storytelling and the 21st-century arts infrastructure that supports it. We strive to increase resources in the field, develop artists as leaders, and connect storytellers with the tools and talent they need to do their best work, amplify their message, and extend the impact of their projects.​




    Fellowships



    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: Senior Fellowships
    Funding agency: International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK)
    Award AmountMonthly allowance of up to €2,325 monthly; rent allowance; one-time travel costs 
    Application deadline: June 26, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​​re

    The International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) invites applications for its senior fellowships. These support senior scholars, who are advanced in their academic careers, and want to pursue their own research at the IFK while fostering intellectual cooperation with the IFK_Fellows and other Austrian colleagues. 

    A thematic link to the IFK’s current research focus of “cultures of translation” or the newly introduced topic “different work” is desired but not required for application. The IFK will also accept independent projects within the realm of humanities and social sciences unrelated to the present research focus. Applications can be submitted in either German or English. 

    IFK Senior Fellowships include an expense allowance of max. € 2,325 monthly (€ 75/per day) as well as a workstation at the IFK. For Fellows with a proper residence outside Vienna, the one-off arrival and departure costs to and from Vienna and a rent allowance are covered. All Fellows are responsible for their own health insurance and social security. 

    Eligibility: Qualified applications for this fellowship will be accepted from individuals of all nationalities regardless of institutional or professional affiliation. Applicants with an international reputation and a publication profile that identifies them as leading experts in their respective scientific fields are particularly encouraged to apply. 

    Further details can be found here​.



    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: Research Grant Program of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – State Library of Berlin
    Funding agency: State Library of Berlin - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Settlements
    Award Amount€1,600 per month for up to three months, and a travel grant of €500 
    Application deadline: September 30, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​​re

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (State Library at Berlin) is a research library of international ranking, which offers excellent working conditions to scholars especially in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, in Law and in the History of Science. 

    The holdings of printed items alone comprise more than ten million volumes of historical and modern literature, with an additional substantial offer of electronic resources. Furthermore, the researchers’ interest is particularly attracted to the library’s important special collections such as rare prints, outstanding occidental and oriental manuscripts, autographs and literary estates, music autographs, maps, historical and current newspapers. The Library also possesses a substantial collection of international children’s and young people’s literature as well as regionally defined collections on Eastern Europe, the Orient, and East Asia. 

    The Research Grant Program of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz is primarily intended to enable scholars living abroad to come to Berlin in order to make use of the rich collections of the Library and the other institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation for their research work, and to make professional contacts in Germany.

    Further details can be found here.



    [Social Sciences: Economics]
    Title: Research Fellowship
    Funding agency: Bank for International Settlements

    Application deadline: March 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​​re

    The Bank for International Settlements invites applications for its research fellowship. This supports research on monetary and financial stability, monetary economics, macro-economics and finance, financial markets, central bank governance and other institutional issues. Fellows are invited to the organization’s monetary and economic department for periods ranging from a few days to three months, and are expected to complete one or more research papers of a theoretical or empirical nature for presentation at internal seminars and external conferences and for publication both as a BIS Working Paper and in a leading refereed journal. Research fellows will be based at the BIS Head Office in Basel, Switzerland, or at the BIS Representative Office in either Hong Kong SAR or Mexico City. Successful candidates will be offered accommodation, reimbursement of travel costs, and a monthly or daily honorarium. 

    Eligibility: The programme is aimed at internationally recognized economists from academia and research institutions. Candidates should have an outstanding publication record and hold a PhD from a leading university.



    [Humanities]
    Title: Short-term Fellowships
    Funding agency: Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB)
    Award Amount: A monthly fellowship of up to €1,800
    Application deadline: January 31, 2024
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    The Herzog August Bibliothek invites applications for its short-term fellowships. These enable a broad range of scholars of all career stages, from postdoctoral to emeriti, to gather source material during a short visit to the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Applications can be made for stays of between one and three months. The monthly fellowship is €1,800. A travel subsidy will also be paid (between €150 and max. €650, depending on country of origin).​



    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: Themis Programme - Impeded Researches Fellowship
    Funding agency: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
    Award Amount: A monthly allowance of €1,800 for transport and living expenses, for a period 1 to 3 months
    Application deadline: March 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​​re

    The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme invites applications for its Themis programme - impeded research. This offers mobility grants for stays in France of one to three months to researchers of all nationalities facing obstacles to academic freedom in their countries. This mobility grant is intended for research work in France in the humanities and social sciences, and covers fieldwork, library and archive work.

    Eligibility

    Context: working in difficult conditions and being hindered in their research. Impediments to academic freedom may be of various kinds. 

    Status and degree: applicants must be attached to a private or public higher education research institution / research institute and hold a research doctorate, and must be under 65 years of age at the time of their stay. 

    Discipline: candidates must be engaged in research in the humanities and social sciences. 

    Projects will be evaluated based on the following elements: 

    • The scientific quality of the project and the method developed; 
    • The need to come to France in view of the project and the obstacles mentioned; 
    • The feasibility of the project during the stay in France. ​


    [Humanities; Social Sciences]
    Title: Associate Research Directors: DEA Programme
    Funding agency: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
    Award Amount: Up to €3,400 per month
    Application deadline: March 31, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​​re

    Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) ​invites applications for its associate research directors (DEA) programme. This enables foreign scientific professionals from all continents to be invited for a period of four to six weeks to support their work in the humanities and social sciences​ in France, as well as to promote the creation of international research networks and contact with researchers on site. Priority is given to projects requiring fieldwork in France. 

    A monthly allowance of €3,400 is awarded for transport and living expenses. In addition, FMSH provides support for visa applications and logistics (accommodation and access to libraries). 

    Eligibility: Applicants must hold a professorship or equivalent position in higher education and research institutions. They must be under 65 years of age at the time of their stay. ​



    [Social Sciences]
    Title: Call for Faculty Mobility Fellowships
    Funding agency: Open Society University Network
    Application deadline: February 20, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​​re

    OSUN invites applications from OSUN faculty for (1) Visiting Faculty Fellowships, which allow faculty to teach courses and engage in relevant collaborations requested by OSUN partner institutions; and (2) Short-Term NCC Faculty Fellowships for enhancing OSUN Network Collaborative Courses (NCCs) through 1-2-week visits between co-faculty.

    The OSUN Faculty Mobility Program is designed to strengthen bonds throughout the network and spur collaboration on teaching, course design, curriculum development, scholarship, research, and civic engagement. These collaborations foster academic integration, which will in turn expand opportunities for students, faculty and institutions to engage diverse global perspectives more fully.
    Further details can be found here​. ​



    [​Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Title: Centre for Research Collections Fellowships
    Funding agency: The University of Edinburgh
    Award am​ount: monthly allowance of £1,300; travel allowance of up to £500
    Application deadline: April 28, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Applications are invited for Centre for Research Collections Fellowships from postdoctoral scholars in any area of the arts, humanities and social sciences, to carry out research based on any of the Heritage Collections held at the University of Edinburgh. The university’s collections include archives, manuscripts, rare books, art, musical instruments and other museum collections representing four centuries of collecting, and occupying 100km of shelving. They are managed by a multi-disciplinary team of curators within the Centre for Research Collections (CRC). The collections offer almost limitless possibilities for research across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. The Fellowships offer privileged access to the collections and curatorial team, enabling forms of collections-based research which are difficult to accomplish through ordinary reading room services. The Fellows are expected to be correspondingly engaged with the CRC, contributing to projects or events as appropriate. The Institute welcomes visiting researchers from across the world. The research visits last for three to six months.

    Eligibility:
    Applications from independent researchers, employees of universities and other organizations engaged in research from around the world are eligible to apply. Selection will be subject to the immigration rules governing the UK. Applicants should be employed for purposes including investigative research (or be an independent researcher), and have a suitable project or study to undertake using a specific collection. Applicants must have been awarded a doctorate at the time of application, and normally within the last five years. Applicants should not have held a previous fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Those who have held temporary and/or short-term appointments are eligible to apply.​



    [Social Sciences: Sociology and Anthropology​]
    Title: Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships (writing)
    Funding agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $40,000
    Application opens: March 1, 2023
    Application deadline: May 1, 2023
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships (writing) is providing funds towards the writing-up of already completed research. The fellowship is awarded to early career scholars, who frequently lack the time and resources they need to publish their work. Applicants should be no more than ten years beyond their PhD, with allowances made for periods of caregiving, and have a doctorate in anthropology or an equivalent field. A maximum of eight Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually. By providing funds for scholars to devote themselves full-time to writing, the Foundation aims to enable a new generation of scholars to publish significant works that will impact the development of anthropology. The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are nonrenewable and provide financial support for twelve months of continuous full-time writing. Applicants requesting shorter time periods will receive a pro-rated award as appropriate (e.g., a six-month project of $20,000 can be awarded). Applications must be submitted using the Foundation's Online Application.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent at the time o​f application. Applicants should be no more than ten years beyond their PhD, with allowances made for periods of caregiving, and have a doctorate in anthropology or an equivalent field. Qualified scholars are eligible without regard to nationality, institutional, or departmental affiliation although preference is given to applicants who are untenured or do not yet have a permanent academic position. The fellowship may be used to support the preparation of a book or monograph manuscript, journal articles, book chapters, or a combination of these forms of publication. Further details on eligibility to be found h​e​re.



    [​Social Sciences: Sociology and Anthropology]
    Title: Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships (ethnographic film)
    Funding agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Award am​ount: Up to $40,000
    Application opens: March 1, 2023
    Application deadline: May 1, 2023 (available annually)
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships (ethnographic film) provide funds towards the completion of an ethnographic film that is based on anthropological research already accomplished by the applicant. The fellowship is awarded to early career scholars, who frequently lack the time and resources they need for film production. A maximum of four full Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually. By providing funds for scholars to devote themselves to full-time work on a research-related film, the Foundation aims to enable a new generation of scholars to present their work via this medium. Broadly speaking, we seek to support projects that will have an impact on the field of anthropology -- as well as outreach beyond the academy -- through the support of exciting new and innovative work in the field of ethnographic film. There is no preference in this fellowship for any particular underlying research methodology, research location or subfield. The main requirements are that the proposed film is firmly rooted in the applicant’s completed research, is innovative in approach, and has the potential for a broad impact both within and beyond the discipline. Applicants requesting shorter time periods will receive a pro-rated award as appropriate (e.g., a six-month project would be awarded $20,000). Note that this Fellowship is not for film journalism or new film projects that are not derived from the applicant’s prior academic research. Applications must be submitted using the Foundation's Online Application​.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent in anthropology or a related discipline at the time of application. Applicants should be no more than ten years beyond their PhD, with allowances made for periods of caregiving, and have a doctorate in anthropology or an equivalent field. Qualified scholars are eligible without regard to nationality, institutional, or departmental affiliation, although preference is given to applicants who are untenured or do not yet have a permanent academic position. Independent scholars are eligible to apply. Further details on eligibility to be found h​e​re.



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    [All disciplines]
    Title: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral and Experienced Researchers
    Funding agency: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / Federal Foreign Office and Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Application deadline: In advance of March, July, or November
    Award amount: €2,670 per month for postdoctoral researchers; €3,170 per month for experienced researchers
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Through the Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers of all nationalities and research areas with above-average qualifications. This will enable qualified researchers to conduct their own research at various stages of their career in collaboration with a host at a German research institution of their choice.
    Deadlines: The Selection Committee responsible for reviewing applications to this programme meets every March, July and November. Interested applicants must send their completed application form, including any additional documents required, well in advance of the desired selection date.

    For postdoctoral researchers:
    In providing Humboldt Research Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad who are just embarking on their academic careers and who completed their doctorates less than four years ago1 to spend extended periods of research (6–24 months) in Germany. Scientists and scholars from all disciplines and countries may apply. The research outline is carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their host in Germany. Details of the research outline including information on the intended duration of the fellowship must be agreed with the intended host before applying. Short-term visits for study and training purposes or for attending conferences are not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants from natural sciences discipline must have a good knowledge of German or English. Those from humanities or social sciences must have a good knowledge of German if this is necessary for conducting your research successfully. Otherwise, good knowledge of English will suffice.
    The complete funding guidelines can be accessed he​re

    For experienced researchers:
    In providing Humboldt Research Fellowships for experienced researchers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad, who completed their doctorates less than twelve years ago to spend extended periods of research (6-18 months) in Germany. Candidates are expected to have their own, clearly defined research profile. This means they should usually be working at least at the level of Assistant Professor or Junior Research Group Leader or be able to document independent research work over a number of years. Scientists and scholars from all disciplines and countries may apply. The research outline is carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their host in Germany. Details of the research outline including information on the intended duration of the fellowship must be agreed with the intended host before applying. The duration of the research fellowship (6-18 months) may be divided up into a maximum of three visits lasting a minimum of three months each. No more than 36 months may elapse between the beginning of the first stay and the end of the last stay. Short-term visits for study and training purposes or for attending conferences are not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants from natural sciences discipline must have a good knowledge of German or English. Those from humanities or social sciences must have a good knowledge of German if this is necessary for conducting your research successfully. Otherwise, good knowledge of English will suffice.
    The complete guidelines can be accessed he​re



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    [All disciplines]
    Title: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Researchers from Developing and Transition Countries
    Funding agency: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
    Application deadline: In advance of February, June, and October
    Award amount: €2,670 per month for postdoctoral researchers; €3,170 per month for experienced researchers
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    Through the Georg Forster Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors postdoctoral and experienced researchers from all disciplines with above-average qualifications, and supports them with their research in Germany. These researches must come from developing and transition countries, and have direct relevance for the further development of their region of origin.
    Deadlines: The Selection Committee responsible for reviewing applications to this program meets every February, June and October. Interested applicants must send their completed application form, including any additional documents required, well in advance of the desired selection date.

    For postdoctoral researchers:
    In providing Georg Forster Research Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad who are just embarking on their academic careers and who completed their doctorates less than four years ago to spend extended periods of research (6-24 months) in Germany. The research outline must deal with issues of major relevance to the future development of the candidate’s country or region of origin. The research is carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their host in Germany and prepare their research outline independently. Details of the research outline including information on the intended duration of the fellowship must be agreed with the intended host before applying. Short-term visits for study and training purposes or for attending conferences are not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants from natural sciences discipline must have a good knowledge of German or English. Those from humanities or social sciences must have a good knowledge of German if this is necessary for conducting your research successfully. Otherwise, good knowledge of English will suffice.
    The complete funding guidelines can be accessed he​re

    For experienced researchers:
    In providing Georg Forster Research Fellowships for experienced researchers, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad, who completed their doctorates less than twelve years ago to spend extended periods of research (6-18 months) in Germany. Candidates are expected to have their own, clearly defined research profile. This means they should usually be working at least at the level of Assistant Professor or Junior Research Group Leader or be able to document independent research work over a number of years. The research is carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their host in Germany and prepare their research outline independently. Details of the research outline including information on the intended duration of the fellowship must be agreed with the intended host before applying. The duration of the research fellowship (6-18 months) may be divided up into a maximum of three visits lasting a minimum of three months each. No more than 36 months may elapse between the beginning of the first stay and the end of the last stay. Short-term visits for study and training purposes or for attending conferences are not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants from natural sciences discipline must have a good knowledge of German or English. Those from humanities or social sciences must have a good knowledge of German if this is necessary for conducting your research successfully. Otherwise, good knowledge of English will suffice.
    The complete funding guidelines can be accessed he​re



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    [Quantitative Thought; Mathematics]
    Title: Simons CRM Scholar-in-Residence Program
    Funding agency: Simons Foundation
    Application deadline: January 10, April 1, July 1, October 1
    Full announcement ​ he​re

    The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) continues its call for proposals for its scholar-in-residence program. This program is directed towards exceptional researchers in mathematics and related areas at both the junior (less than 10 years since PhD) and senior levels, and will permit the CRM to invite such researchers for extended visits. During their visit, senior researchers will hold the title Simons CRM Professor; junior researchers will be designated as Simons CRM Scholars.

    The scholars-in-residence will be chosen to enhance the manifold research activities held at the CRM. In particular, they will participate in and enrich the CRM thematic programs. They will also contribute to the collaborative research activities of the thirteen CRM research laboratories.

    The visits of scholars-in-residence will be between one and six months in length. The support covers round-trip travel to Montréal and the costs of local accommodation, including family accommodation when needed. Senior researchers will additionally be provided with a research budget for the purpose of inviting collaborators to visit them during their residency. In exceptional circumstances, the CRM may also be able to facilitate visits by paying the home institutions of scholars-in-residence for a one-course teaching release.



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    [Social Sciences; Humanities]
    Title: Resident Scholars Fellowship
    Funding agency: School for Advanced Research (SAR)
    Application deadline: First Monday in November yearly
    Award amount: Up to $40,000
    Full announcement here

    The School for Advanced Research invites applications for its resident scholars fellowships. These support scholars in preparing a manuscript or dissertation for publication on a topic important to the understanding of humankind for a period of nine month. The following fellowships are available:

    • Two Weatherhead fellowships – for scholars with doctorates writing a book, worth $40,000, or PhD students writing their dissertation in the humanities or social sciences, worth $35,000;
    • One Paloheimo Foundation fellowship – for scholars working in the humanities or social sciences who plan to write their dissertations, worth $35,000;
    • One Katrin H Lamon fellowship – for a Native scholar working in the humanities or social sciences, worth $35,000 for PhD students or $40,000 for applicants holding a PhD;
    • Two Andrew W Mellon Foundation fellowships – for scholars at the level of assistant professor, worth $50,000, or PhD students, worth $35,000, for research in Latino studies;
    • One Wenner-Gren fellowship in anthropology and black experiences – for scholars whose research draws on Black studies, critical race studies, diasporic Africana studies, the vernacular insights of communities of colour, and other sources of inspiration growing out of global Black experiences to advance new lines of scholarship in any of anthropology’s subfields, worth $50,000.

    Resident scholars are provided with an office, low-cost housing, a stipend (amount varies according to award), library assistance, and other benefits. Fellowships involve a nine-month tenure, from September 1 through May 31.

    Eligibility:
    Applicants for doctoral level fellowships must have their PhD in hand at time of application. If not, you must apply as a PhD candidate and will receive the pre-doctoral level stipend award. Resident scholars may approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from related fields such as history and sociology. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply.







    Internal AUB Funding



    [All disciplines]
    Title: University Research Board Faculty Research Grants Program
    Funding agency: AUB University Research Board (URB)
    Award amount: Up to $18,000
    ​Application deadline: February 15, 2023 (for new proposals); March 15, 2023 (for renewals)

    The URB Faculty Research Grants Program (FRGP) provides grant support on a competitive basis for novel research projects submitted by full-time AUB faculty members in the professorial ranks.

    ​Please refer to the URB FRGP Funding Guidelines for 2023-24 for details on eligibility, budget categories and restrictions (new changes for 2023-24), proposal preparation, the submission process, and the review process.

    Proposals for new research grants: Proposals should be submitted by the Principal Investigator using the URB Online Submission Form on the AUB Grants Portal by Wednesday, February 15, 2023 noon. The online grant portal will be open for submissions by mid-January.

    PIs are requested to follow closely the Proposals Preparation Guidelines especially the sections to be included, their recommended lengths, and the formatting instructions. No applications will be accepted after the set deadline

    Renewal proposals: Progress reports for two-year grants awarded in last year's cycle should be submitted by the Principal Investigator using the URB Online Submission Form on the AUB Grants Portal by Wednesday, March 15, 2023 noon. The renewal report should be uploaded to the online grants portal. Please note that renewals should follow the 2022-23 grant cycle guidelines​.

    ​Awards are planned to be announced by mid-June 2023, and funds are planned to be available between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.



    [All disciplines]
    Title: FAS Conference Grants
    Funding agency: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office
    Award amount: Up to $2,500 for MENA and Europe; up to $3,000 for elsewhere

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office is processing applications for FAS Conference Grants from full-time professorial-rank faculty members to support their travel to present their research results at international conferences.

    Requests must be submitted via the following web form.

    The request will be channeled to the faculty member’s department chair for review, following which the faculty member’s request and the chair’s input will be forwarded to the Dean’s Office. A completed Leave Request Form for the proposed travel should accompany the submitted application.

    Eligibility:
    Full-time faculty members of professorial rank and visiting faculty members of professorial rank with contracts of two years or more are eligible to apply for this program. Faculty members who are on Leave without Pay during the conference period are not eligible.

    Each faculty member is eligible only for one FAS Conference Grant per fiscal year, and each FAS Conference Grant may cover only one conference. Fiscal years extend from July 1 to June 30 of the following year (i.e. Fiscal Year 2022-23 extends from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 and Fiscal Year 2023-24 extends from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024).

    Covered expenses:
    1. One roundtrip economy flight ticket (Beirut-conference destination city-Beirut)
    2. Conference registration fee (this covers the registration fee to present at the conference, including abstract submission fees)
    3. Per diem allowance for lodging, meals, and incidentals per the AUB Comptroller's Office rates​
    4. Transportation from/to the airport in the destination city

    Please refer to the following detailed​ guidelines​​ for more information. For inquiries, please contact Heghnar Yeghiayan (hy25@aub.edu.lb)



    [All disciplines]
    Title: Waivers and Discounts for AUB Affiliates – AUB Libraries

    AUB Libraries is participating in the membership program of some open access publishers. Due to these memberships, AUB scholars and academic researchers are eligible for waivers and discounts on the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing.
    Full information on this page​ on the AUB Libraries website.



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