UI: Mini Grants on Employment Issues

Sponsor: The Upjohn Institute (UI)

The Upjohn Institute invites submission of proposals to conduct policy-relevant research on employment issues under our 2007 Grant Program. We expect to fund research on a variety of issues related to employment and unemployment.

During the same funding cycles as the Research Grants, the Institute will consider proposals for funds to conduct research and write scholarly papers on innovative research topics.

The purpose of the Mini-Grant Program, which is reserved for untenured junior faculty within six years of earning their PhD degree, is to provide flexibility to meet special funding needs that, without support, would prevent researchers from pursuing the project.

Funds could be used as summer compensation or to acquire special data sets, meet unusual computer processing or programming needs, or to cover travel to collect primary data. Special consideration will be given to those who use data from the Institute’s Employment Research Data Center.

We recognize that research universities provide many of these services, but we also recognize that empirical research, particularly that oriented toward policy, may have unusual expenses that prevent the pursuit of topics that are particularly relevant to policymakers or practitioners.

Unlike the Research Grants, a book-length manuscript is not required, although always welcome. Instead, we expect the recipient to submit their paper to a reputable journal and to prepare a synopsis of their research for consideration as an article in the Institute’s newsletter, Employment Research.

Amount: The maximum funding amount is $5,000.

Deadline:

August 1, 2007 - deadline for 3-page summary applications

September 5, 2007 - Research Grant finalists invited to prepare a full 15-page proposals

October 17, 2007 - Mini-Grant proposals due

November 14, 2007 - announcement of awards.

For further information, please visit: http://www.upjohninst.org/grantann.html#mg