Collaborative Action Research Grants

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NATIONAL ENDOWNMENTS FOR THE HUMANITIES: Collaborative Research Grants

Receipt Deadline: November 1, 2006 (For projects beginning in July, 2007)

Collaborative Research Grants support: original research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars; or research coordinated by an individual scholar that, because of its scope or complexity, requires additional staff and resources beyond the individual's salary.

Eligible projects include: research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities; conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit ongoing research; archaeology projects that interpret and communicate the results of archaeological fieldwork. Projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs; translations into English of works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures; and research that uses the knowledge, methods, and perspectives of the humanities to enhance understanding of science, technology, and medicine.

These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences.

Awards are made for one to three years and normally range from $25,000 to $100,000 per year. Successful applicants will be awarded a grant in outright funds, matching funds, or a combination o the two, depending on the applicant's preference and the availability of funds. The use of federal matching funds is encouraged. Federal matching funds are released on a 1:1 basis when a grantee secures gift funds from eligible third parties.

Eligible applicants:

  • U.S. nonprofit organizations or institutions;
  • State and local governments, and tribal governments; and
  • U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have been living in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately prior to the time of application. Applicants affiliated with an eligible institution must apply through an institution, ordinarily their own institution. Adjunct faculty may apply as individuals.

For more information, visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/collaborative.html.

SSRC Collaborative Action Research Grants on Globalization and Violent Conflict

The Social Science Research Council introduced a round of competition on Collaborative Action Research which extended a call-for-proposals to qualified teams (such as scholars, NGO professionals, journalists, and lawyers) who reside or work in places beset by violent conflicts directly tied to issues of globalization. Grants awarded through this medium sought to create a global network of researchers—with a focus on globalization and conflict—pursuing conflict analysis by using a variety of empirical and theoretical methods.

Past requests-for-proposals invited collaborative research on the relationships between processes of political and economic globalization and violent conflict, with a specific focus on natural resources and state capacities.

Team activities contribute to the generation and exchange of new knowledge and data and a critical analysis or evaluation of the practices, policies, and politics of actors involved in the conflicts. These could include, for example, international financial institutions and other international organizations; governments of the major industrialized countries; multinational corporations and private enterprises; private armies and militias; local and national government officials and institutions.

While the principal activities under this grant were to enhance understanding of the causes of conflict, the research teams could present strategies for conflict resolution in the pertinent regions being studied, if appropriate, as well as policy recommendations designed to address sources of insecurity in their region.

Research collaboration—involving, for example, comparative analyses or collaborative data collection—could be facilitated by activities such as workshops, networks, and other forms of intellectual exchange. While theoretical insights and theory building were welcome, they had to be based on empirical research. The hope was that funded activities would lead to the production of tangible outputs such as jointly authored articles for academic and policy/practitioner audiences, research reports, edited volumes, listserves, Web sites, or symposia for the public dissemination of research findings.

There are currently no call-for-proposals at this time. For more information, http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/gsc/grants.page.