The Grant Notification Service from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) lists grant opportunities in education sciences. To submit a grant proposal, contact WCER Director Courtney Bell to receive permission to work through—and, if funded, have the project housed in—WCER. Include the following required information:
- Funding agency
- Name of competition and link to the request for proposal (RFP)
- Submission deadline
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Co-PI(s) (if any)
- Estimated length of project, and budget
- Indicate if WCER is the prime submitting institution or if this is a subcontract
- Short description of your project
Additional information is available on the MyWCER Grants & Contracts page. If you intend to pursue foundation opportunities and would like assistance, please contact Brenna Graham, the School of Education’s Director of Development for Foundation Relations.
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Increasing Social and Economic Inclusion Grant
UW–Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE)
This new initiative will support research that will significantly expand knowledge on how to reduce social and economic disparities in opportunities and wellbeing and increase social and economic inclusion. Research grants will be awarded in two categories: projects less than $100,000, and projects $100,000 up to a maximum of $250,000.
Deadline: Abstract due December 9, 2022; full proposal due January 30, 2023
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Fellowship Program to Promote Research on Child and Youth Development
The Jacobs Foundation
This is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. The relevant disciplines include, but are not limited to, education sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, behavioral science, computer science, pedagogy, linguistics, neurosciences, and science of learning. Particularly encouraged to apply are scholars who seek to combine multiple levels of analysis and engage in interdisciplinary work. A special focus lies on work to understand and embrace variability in learning; promote the generation, transfer, and practical application of evidence on human learning and development or increase the capacity to scale up effective education policies and practices.
Deadline: January 15, 2023
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Wisconsin Sea Grant 2024–26 Omnibus Funding
University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program
The UW Sea Grant College Program is inviting research and education project proposals for the next 2-year grant period that begins February 1, 2024. Wisconsin Sea Grant solicits research proposals for up to $130k/year in the areas that include Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility for Underserved or Underrepresented Communities; Emerging Contaminants and Marine Debris; Great Lakes Coastal Resources and Communities in a Changing Climate. In addition, Wisconsin Sea Grant solicits education proposals for up to $40k/year to address the priority of environmental literacy and workforce development (non-research education projects). An informational webinar for prospective investigators will be provided on Friday, November 18, 2022, 10–11 am CST. Connection information and recordings will be available at seagrant.wisc.edu/rfp.
Deadline: Preproposal due January 13, 2023 (full proposal due April 28, 2023)
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Special Education Research and Development Center Program
Institute for Education Sciences (IES)
Under this program in FY 2023, NCSER seeks to establish a new research and development center on Supporting Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education (Postsecondary Center). The Postsecondary Center will be responsible for developing a focused program of exploratory research and conducting national leadership and capacity building activities. The overarching goal of the Postsecondary Center is to provide the evidence base and research capacity to address the most pressing needs of postsecondary students with disabilities.
Deadline: January 12, 2023
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Large Research Grants on Education
Spencer Foundation
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from 1 to 5 years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
Deadlines: Required letter of Intent due January 12, 2023; Full proposal due February 22, 2023
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National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)
Under this program in FY 2023, NCSER seeks to establish a new research and development center on Supporting Students with Disabilities in Postsecondary Education (Postsecondary Center). The Postsecondary Center will be responsible for developing a focused program of exploratory research and conducting national leadership and capacity building activities. The overarching goal of the Postsecondary Center is to provide the evidence base and research capacity to address the most pressing needs of postsecondary students with disabilities.
Deadline: Letter of intent (optional but encouraged) due October 21, 2022; application due January 12, 2023
Please also note: IES does fund what they call “Postsecondary Teaching and Learning Topics.” See the description on this page, with contact info on the program officers: https://ies.ed.gov/ncer/projects/program.asp?ProgID=15.
Related IES projects: Currently Active R&D Centers and Networks:
- Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness
- Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL): Developing Instructional Approaches Suited to the Cognitive and Motivational Needs for Struggling Adults
- College Completion Network
A good strategy is to set up a meeting with one of the program officers. See Also the IES-Wide Topic Pages:
High school teachers: IES project R305A190476, “PurpleState 2.0: Investigating the Impact of a Virtual Internship on Argumentative Reading and Writing in Civic Education” ($1,400,000; 2019–2022). This project is developing and testing a simulation in which high school students design a state-level campaign on a public policy issue. The project adapts techniques from iPlan [PI: Andrew Ruis, WCER] to create a geospatial simulation of social and political engagement. Intellectual Merit: This project extends a previous pilot study that found that students who participated in the simulation developed a deeper understanding of the public policy issues, state and local political contexts, and the role of media in politics. They also significantly increased skills in argumentative reading and writing and self-efficacy for civic engagement. Broader Impacts: The simulation platform supports classroom discussions about students’ own engagement with political information sources and the role of media in politics, critical issues in democratic education that have not been included in civics curricula
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Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
William T. Grant Foundation
This program funds research studies that advance theory and build empirical knowledge on ways to improve the use of research evidence by policymakers, agency leaders, organizational managers, intermediaries, and other decision-makers that shape youth-serving systems in the United States. Proposed studies must pursue one of the following aims: Building, identifying, or testing ways to improve the use of existing research evidence; Building, identifying, or testing ways to facilitate the production of new research evidence that responds to decision-makers’ needs; Testing whether and under what conditions using research evidence improves decision-making and youth outcomes.
Deadline: January 11, 2023
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Research Grants of Reducing Inequality
William T. Grant Foundation (WTG)
This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States. WTG prioritizes studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
Deadline: January 11, 2023
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