Small Grants Program Call for Proposals: Spring 2024
The Gun Violence Solutions Faculty Working Group at UVA welcomes proposals from UVA faculty and students to support activities and research on issues related to gun violence.
This pan-university faculty working group is part of a larger university project on gun violence solutions involving schools and units across Grounds and community partners. The wider project is being developed in partnership with UVA's School of Law, the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the College and Graduate School of Art & Sciences, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy.
The small grants program supported by the faculty working group invites proposals with budgets of up to $5,000 for activities projected to last six months. Projects or activities may be ongoing or new.
Proposals could support any of the following activities:
- Undergraduate and graduate student engagement and programming (e.g., inviting a speaker, putting on a performance, a field trip, an event, research, creative work);
- Course enhancements (e.g., support for external speaker visits, undergraduate or graduate student research connected to the course, field or site visits); or
- Graduate student and faculty research involving new or ongoing research (e.g., conference or research travel, convenings on Grounds, field work).
Grant recipients are required to join the Gun Violence Solutions Faculty Working Group for a convening in the spring or summer of 2024 to share their work and to submit a brief final report.
UVA faculty and students of any rank and track from all schools and units across Grounds are eligible to apply. All projects must comply with university and school procedures. Projects needing an IRB will not be supported. The funds cannot be used for summer salary. Graduate students must provide authorization from their advisor or director of Graduate Studies approving their application (further details below).
Application Deadline: Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Application Notification: Friday, February 2, 2024
Funding Period: February 2024–September 2024
Applicants: In the header on the first page (no cover sheets), please include your name, e-mail address, school/department, and project title. The proposal should address, in no more than two pages the following:
- a statement describing the central issues and goals of the activity or research;
- the format this work would take (e.g., a two-day workshop, a research trip to a library, a research paper, including, when relevant, names of other key participants);
- where appropriate, the planned dates of events or activities;
- names and affiliations of any additional investigators, collaborators, and (proposed or confirmed) visiting speakers or guests; and
- a budget that includes anticipated expenses for the proposed activity or research, with cost estimates for each expense associated with the successful completion of the proposed activity or achievement of the goal listed in the proposal.
Please include only the applicant’s short CV or resume (no more than two pages).
Graduate students must also include a single sheet pdf (of a letter or email) providing approval from their advisor or director of Graduate Studies.
Send the complete proposal by email to Jane Kulow (jbk9s@virginia.edu) at the Karsh Institute of Democracy no later than January 24, 2024.
The proposal can be separate or combined documents in PDF or Word format in a total of no more than four or five pages (two pages for the proposal, up to two pages for a CV or resume, and one additional page from graduate students).
Please contact Professor Bonnie Gordon (bsg6v@virginia.edu) with questions about this call for proposals or the Gun Violence Solutions Faculty Working Group and Jane Kulow (jbk9s@virginia.edu) with any questions about the application process.