Call for Proposals: UVA Gun Violence Solutions Project Faculty Working Group

The UVA Gun Violence Solutions Project (GVSP) Faculty Working Group invites proposals for individual or collaborative projects to begin in January 2025.  

Proposal Deadline: Monday, December 2, 2024

The GVSP Faculty Working Group at UVA welcomes proposals from UVA faculty, postdocs, and students to support activities, teaching, 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 has been 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.  

Eligibility 

  • UVA faculty, postdocs, and students of any rank and track from all schools and units across Grounds are eligible to apply. 
  • Postdocs must provide authorization from their managing supervisor. 
  • Graduate students must provide authorization from their advisor or director of Graduate Studies.  
  • Undergraduate students must provide authorization from a faculty advisor, a departmental director of Undergraduate Studies, or relevant Association Dean. 

Project requirements 

  • All projects must comply with university and school procedures. 
  • The funds cannot be used for summer salary. 
  • Grant recipients are required to join the GVSP Faculty Working Group for a symposium on April 25, 2025, to share their work and to submit a brief final report by their grant end date, which is August 31, 2025, or December 31, 2025, depending upon the level of funding.  

Project administration 

Faculty home departments will manage funds, including expenses, reimbursements, and tracking fund balances. Note that funding notifications to faculty and postdocs will require a signature from the department chair or business manager. Please be certain your department is aware of and will accept this responsibility. 

SEED GRANT PROGRAM 

Requirements 

  • Budget up to $5,000 
  • Project duration up to eight months 
  • Ongoing or new projects or activities 

CONTINUING WORK GRANTS PROGRAM 

Requirements 

  • Budget up to $15,000 
  • Project duration up to 12 months 
  • Priority placed on continuing projects or activities, but consideration will be given to new projects that are ready to launch 

Proposals for either program 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);   
  • Graduate student, postdoc, and faculty research involving new or ongoing research (e.g., conference or research travel, convenings on Grounds, field work);    
  • Undergraduate research. 

Application instructions 

Header

In the header on the first page (no cover sheets), please include your name, e-mail address, school/department, and project title.  

Content 

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.   

Attachments

  • Please include only the applicant’s short CV or resume (no more than two pages).   
  • Postdocs must also include a single sheet pdf (of a letter or email) providing approval from their supervisor. 
  • Students must also include a single sheet pdf (of a letter or email) providing approval from their advisor, Association Dean, or director of Graduate/Undergraduate Studies.   

 Application submission

  • Send the complete proposal by email to submissions.karsh@virginia.edu no later than Monday, December 2, 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 postdocs and students).  

Important dates

  • December 2, 2024: Proposal deadline 
  • January 8, 2025: Notifications will be provided by January 8, 2025. 
  • January 15, 2025: Research funds will be made available by January 15, 2025. 
  • Funding period for Seed Grants: January – August 31, 2025  
  • Funding period for Continuing Work Grants: January – December 31, 2025 
  • April 25, 2025: All grantees are required to present their preliminary work at the GVSP’s spring symposium on April 25, 2025. 
  • August 31, 2025: Seed grant recipients provide a one-page written narrative about the work this funding supported. 
  • August 31, 2025: Seed grant funds must be used, at which time any unused funding will return to the GVSP faculty working group.  
  • December 31, 2025: Continuing work grant recipients provide a one-page written narrative about the work this funding supported. 
  • December 31, 2025: Continuing work grant funds must be used, at which time any unused funding will return to the GVSP faculty working group. 

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