Russell Sage Foundation Announces New Funding Opportunities
Russell Sage Foundation has announced a range of funding opportunities focused on Social, Political and Economic Inequality / Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration / Immigration and Immigrant Integration. They also welcome applications for their prestigious Visiting Scholar Program.
Research Grants
Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
The program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines 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. The kinds of topics and questions that are of interest include, but are not limited to, (i) Biases and Misperceptions, (ii) Institutions, Policies, Social Structures and Networks, (iii) Motivations, Incentives and Choice Architecture, (iv) Habits, Time Preferences, Mental Bandwidth and Behavior Change, and (v) Affect and Emotions.
Future of Work
The program supports investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. It is 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.
Social, Political, and Economic Inequality
The program supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including educational access, job opportunities, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage within and across generations.
Race, Ethnicity & Immigration
The program supports research on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. The funder is especially interested in research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, gender, and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites. It encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and foster a better understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society.
Immigration and Immigrant Integration
The initiative 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. The funder seeks 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.
Special Topics
The funder will also accept LOIs relevant to any of its core programs that address the effects of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the United States.
Eligibility:
– Applicants must have a doctorate — in rare circumstances the funder may consider applications from scholars who can demonstrate a strong career background that establishes their ability to conduct high-level, peer-reviewed scholarly research.
– All nationalities are eligible and applicants do not have to reside in the U.S., but the focus of the proposed research project must be on the U.S.
Funding: up to $275,000
– Trustee Grants: up to $200,000 over 2 years, including 15% IDC
– Presidential Awards: up to $35,000, no IDC
PIs may request up to $75,000 (no IDC) when the proposed research project has special needs for gathering data or gaining access to restricted-use data.
Key Dates:
May 3, 2023 (LOIs due)
August 9, 2023 2023 (proposals due)
December 1, 2023 (award decision)
Details: https://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/application-deadlines#regular
Visiting Scholar Program
Purpose: To support scholars in the social, economic, political, and behavioral sciences to pursue data analysis and writing in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City.
Applicants should work on projects related to the foundation’s core programs: (i) Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; (ii) Future of Work; (iii) Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; (iv) Social, Political and Economic Inequality; (v) Special Initiatives: Immigration and Immigrant Integration.
Eligibility:
- must be 2+years beyond the PhD at the application deadline
- Individuals are allowed a maximum of 2 visits as a Visiting Scholar. Former visiting scholars can apply for a second fellowship that would begin 7+ years after their first visit.
- Working groups of up to 3 collaborating scholars are eligible; however each member must submit an individual application.
Funding:
- up to $125,000 over 10 months (September 1st through June 30th)
- up to $62,500 for a half-year (September-January or February-June)
The foundation annually awards 15 to 17 Visiting Scholar fellowships.
Key date: June 27, 2023 (application deadline)
Details: http://www.russellsage.org/how-to-apply/visiting-scholars-program