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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Research Grants
LGBT Research Grants - awards six grants New!
Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Issues
- Request for Application for UIC LGBT Research Grants
- Application Guidelines
- Application Form/Instructions
Request for Application for UIC LGBT Research Grants
Deadline for submission of applications: 4PM on January 20th. Awards will be announced early February for a project start date of February 15, 2009.
Purpose
These grants will provide strategic support for innovative LGBT research and scholarship of national significance at UIC. Applications for grants will be accepted from all disciplines, as long as the focus of the research and scholarship is on LGBT populations or issues.
Background
Over the last decade the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies has emerged on the UIC campus with scholars working in fields as varied as Anthropology, History, Literature, Nursing, Psychiatry, Public Health, Psychology, and Sociology. The Chancellor's Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues seeks to support and expand this work by encouraging faculty and students to expand the boundaries of what we know about LGBT people.
Further research is required to understand a wide range of issues, including, but not limited to, the nature, extent, and determinants of health issues such as mental disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, and related aspects of individual and household well-being among LGBTs; improved forms of prevention, treatment, counseling, and service delivery for LGBTs; sexuality as identity and its intersections with other identity categories, such as class, gender, ethnicity, and ability; increased understanding and interpretation of the experiences of LGBT people; studies on the development of LGBT people and their identities; analysis of public policies that affect the wellbeing of LGBT people; and the constructions and meanings of gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation across different cultures, subcultures and time periods. The topical areas of research as not restricted to the examples above, hence the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues invites proposals from all disciplines for research projects dealing with LGBT issues and populations.
Three types of awards will be made
- Graduate student or Post-doc awards. To promote innovative and significant LGBT research and scholarship, small grants in the $500 - $1,000 range will be awarded to meritorious applications submitted by UIC graduate students and
post-docs.
- Faculty Research Awards. Many faculty can conduct innovative and significant LGBT research with strategic use of limited funding. As such, research grants in the $500 – $5,000 range will be given to support research that can be fully accomplished with these funds. These applications will be reviewed based on
the potential for the findings to achieve national significance. - Faculty Pilot Awards. Funding for pilot LGBT research with substantial
likelihood of gaining future extramural funding. As such, pilot grants in the $500 - $5,000 range will be given to faculty to support the collection of pilot data. Pilot research has a goal of providing preliminary data to inform a future, larger study. As such it is not expected that the pilot study will accomplish significant scientific aims. Instead, consideration of applications for pilot funds will focus on their potential to lead to larger, extramural funded studies.
Application Guidelines
Deadline & Application Requirements
Applicants should use the LGBT research application forms. Forms may be downloaded here. Applications must be sent by email to lgbtgrants@uic.edu by the deadline listed on the RFA.
Review Process & Selection Criteria
Applications will be evaluated by a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students. Awards will be made based on the proposal’s scholarly merit (i.e. innovation, significance, soundness of the design), relevance to LGBT issues, applicant’s ability to complete the project, and if applicable, likelihood of success in obtaining future outside funding based on preliminary data collected as part of the study.
Eligibility
Financial support is available for UIC faculty, post-docs, and graduate students who intend to conduct research on an issue related to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) populations. Members of the selection committee may apply for awards, but must recuse themselves from the review and ranking of their own proposals. Members of the selection committee must also recuse themselves from the review and ranking off applications where there may be a conflict of interest (e.g. their graduate students or direct collaborators).
Applicants should choose one of three grant categories:
- graduate student and post-doc grants (max $1,000)
- faculty research grants for innovative and significant LGBT research that can be completed with a limited budget (max $5,000)
- faculty grants for a pilot project with substantial likelihood of gaining future external funding (max $5,000)
Collaborative proposals involving scholars from two or more disciplines are also welcome; however grants will be disbursed to the lead applicant’s home department (see below).
Please Note: Research projects must be in compliance with the Office for Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS) guidelines in order to receive funding. Please call OPRS at 312-996-1711 with questions regarding approval procedures.
Funding
Applicants may propose projects requiring up to the maximum amount in the grant category they are applying for (see above). The Subcommittee may decide to award less than the requested amount.
LGBT research grants are meant for research expenses only. They will not support:
- salaries of faculty or graduate students;
- equipment such as laptops or desktop computers or printers;
- the purchase of books, periodicals, or other items available in the University Library;
- travel to professional conventions;
- expenses related to the costs of publication, as opposed to research;
- expenses involving the routine maintenance of a current project.
When awarded, grants will be transferred to the applicant’s home department. The applicant's home department must agree to administer those funds. Re-budgeting within 20% of each budget line’s total is allowed without the CCSLGBTI Subcommittee’s approval. However, more substantial re-budgeting will require approval from the CCSLGBTI Subcommittee.
Terms and Conditions
At the completion of the project, or after one year from the award date, whichever is earliest, grant recipients must submit a one-page report describing the course of the project and noting all tangible results, such as external grant proposals and/or expected publications. This report must be accompanied by a financial report detailing how the funds have been expended. This financial report must be signed by the home department’s business manager in charge of disbursing the funds. The research project must be completed within 12 months of receipt of funds. Carryover of funds may be allowed with permission of the Committee.
It is the intent of the CCLGBTI to maintain and build future resources for UIC LGBT funded research. Department/College agree to refund to CCLGBTI the amount of any faculty seed grant if it leads to extramural awards that recover UIC’s full ICR.
Questions
Questions should be referred to :
Mr. Tony Halford
Program Coordinator
Research Development Services
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research,
MC 672
311 B, AOB
Email: LGBTGrants@uic.edu
Phone: 312-996-7036
The LGBT Seed Fund is supported in part by a grant from the David Bohnett Foundation.
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