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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Research Grants on 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. Awards are $100,000 to $600,000 over 2–3 years.
Deadline: August 2, 2023
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Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
William T. Grant Foundation (WTG)
This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. WTG wants to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used. The foundation welcomes letters of inquiry for studies that pursue one of these broad aims.
Deadline: August 2, 2023
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The Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence Program (SL)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
SL supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. The program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, across a wide range of domains at one or more levels of analysis, including molecular and cellular mechanisms; brain systems; cognitive, affective and behavioral processes; and social and cultural influences.
Deadline: August 2, 2023
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Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
CCCC sponsors research (up to $10,000) that produces knowledge about language, literacy, communication, rhetoric, and the teaching, assessment, and technologies of writing. This call is for proposals to investigate key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs. The initiative also asks recipients to convey the implications of their work in at least two final products: one that is addressed to a scholarly audience of researchers and teachers in the field, and one that is addressed to a specifically identified more public audience.
Deadline: September 1, 2023
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Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) Emergent Researcher Award
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
CCCC invites proposals for projects that can contribute to or influence discussions about literacy and writing instruction in and out of formal education. The initiative also asks recipients to clearly address the impact their research might have on these conversations, conveying the implications of their work in at least two final products: one that is addressed to a scholarly audience of researchers and teachers in the field, and one that is addressed to a specifically identified more public audience.
Deadline: September 1, 2023
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The Humanities Connections program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at 2- and 4-year institutions by encouraging partnerships between humanities faculty and their counterparts in other areas of study. Awards support the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science, and other technology-driven fields; or other non-humanities departments or schools. Projects must incorporate the approaches and learning activities of both the humanities and the non-humanities disciplines involved. The program includes two funding levels: Planning (up to $50K) and Implementation (up to $150K).
Deadline: September 7, 2023
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William T. Grant Foundation (WTG)
The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
Deadline: September 13, 2023
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*UW internal UW Competition* Summer Stipends to Stimulate New Research
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of 2 consecutive months (up to $6,000). NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. Scholars who are tenured or tenure track who teach full time must be nominated by their institution (exemptions include non-tenure-track faculty).
UW internal Deadline: September 6, 2023 (Funder deadline: September 20, 2023)