Call for Applications: BEE Small Grant

BEE's small grants on Diversity and Social Justice Research

PhD students in economics-related programs at UC Berkeley (Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Haas, Public Policy, and Health Policy) are invited to apply for the first (ever) Small Research Grants Initiative towards research pertaining to issues of diversity and social justice.

What type of work will be considered?

Any type of economics research that is related to issues of diversity and social justice. Some relevant topic areas may include crime and policing, diversity in education, environmental justice, economic history, gender and sexuality, geography, health, housing, wealth/income inequality, law and institutions, migration, race, labor markets, and tax policy. Other topics addressing related research questions are encouraged; feel free to apply if you can justify why your research applies to social justice issues. 

How can the grant money be used?

The grant money can be used to cover research expenses of any type (including a stipend for your time). Grants will be awarded as a block stipend. The only requirement for grant recipients is to write a short (1,500-2,000) word blog post about their research that will be published in BEE's website by a pre-determined deadline.

How can I apply?

There is a short application form that has been emailed to BEE listserv members. It asks for a brief description of your research (approximately 1,000 words total). Please fill out this application before the deadline of Friday, September 11, 2020. If you haven't received the application for any reason but are eligible and interested in the application, please get in touch with us here.

How will decisions be made and when will they be reported?

A team of experts in social justice/diversity issues will review each application, and consider each project's relevance/contribution to current work in the topic area. We will do our best to match application to reviewers in an appropriate topic area. At least one economist will be a reviewer for each application, yet scholars from other disciplines will also be serving as reviewers. Scores will be averaged across reviewers, and those with the highest scores will be awarded grants. In the event that the number of top scoring applications exceeds the number of available grants, awards will be randomly allocated among top-scorers. We aim to release decisions by around October 11, 2020, but this is a new program so please be patient and flexible.

Questions?

Email the BEE leadership team members or get in touch with us here.