The Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) and The Office of Sponsored Program’s Shared Services offers grant support to faculty affiliates who do not have designated grant support within their department. Below, you will find grant information and examples.
Research Support - Grants Administrator
Affiliates are encouraged to contact our grants administrator, Chris Chiofolo, any time at cjc@bu.edu for more information and assistance.
Chris hosts office hours on Wednesdays from 11:00 am – 11:30 am for graduate students and Wednesdays from 11:30 am – 12:30 for faculty. Click here for a link to join Chris’s office hours.
Research Support - Ask Chris & Archive
We have provided an archive of grant related questions posed to the center’s grant administrator, Chris Chiofolo, and shared in out Weekly Digest in the past.
If you do not find your question in the Archive, other people are likely wondering the same thing! Please send your questions to cjc@bu.edu; answers to your question will appear in a future Weekly Digest.
Ask Chris Archive
Research Support - Finding Grants
Research Support - Grant Writing Resources
You’ve selected one or several
funding opportunities to pursue and now you’re ready to write a grant to fund your research. Before you begin writing you will want to take a few important administrative steps, starting with contacting the CISS grants administrator,
Chris Chiofolo, if you have not already done so.
The BU Office of Research has provided some resources to assist you:
Research Support - CISS Proposal Library
Research Support - Additional General Resources
The Center invites you to share any additional supports you might find that you feel would be helpful to other BU social scientists. You can do so be emailing the information to ciss@bu.edu.