Announcement

New IRP Grant Opportunities: Requests for Proposals

The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) announces two new grant opportunities. The IRP Extramural Large Grants 2022-2014, and the National Dissertation Award for Research on Poverty and Economic Mobility 2022–2023.  Please see details below.   For other IRP grant opportunities, please visit: Opportunities – INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY – UW–Madison (wisc.edu)

 

IRP Extramural Large Grants 2022–2024

As the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility, the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison seeks to fund research on how human services program and policy design, implementation, and practice create, perpetuate, and dismantle inequities in the following two programmatic areas: (1) child welfare; and (2) populations returning to their communities from incarceration. These are both key areas of interest identified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Office of Human Services Policy (HSP), which serves as the sponsor of the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility. 

IRP has established this large grant program to address emerging policy-relevant research questions and support research that proactively engages affected communities in the research and dissemination processes. Research is “policy-relevant” when it informs local, state, or federal law, regulation, procedure, administrative action, or program adoption and implementation in a way that is targeted, timely and actionable. Policy-relevant research may inform knowledge and understanding of the nature, causes, correlates, and effects of policy issues such as income dynamics, poverty, individual and family functioning, and child well-being with the goal of improving the effectiveness of public policies.  

Proposals are invited from Ph.D.-holding scholars at all career stages, from postdoctoral fellows to senior faculty, and from all disciplines who are interested in pursuing policy-relevant research. The Principal Investigator must hold a doctorate or the highest degree appropriate for their discipline at the time of application. Individuals not associated with a university (domestic or foreign) and foreign entities are ineligible for grants made under this announcement. University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty and postdoctoral fellows are ineligible for funding. 

IRP anticipates funding four to five projects, with total funding (including direct and indirect costs) up to $50,000 each. The grant contract period is flexible depending on scope of the project not to exceed 24 months from grant start date. Researchers will participate in partnership consultations with IRP throughout the grant cycle and will be asked to consider integrating this feedback into their projects and ongoing research. 

The deadline to submit your Letter of Intent is 11:59 p.m. CDT January 18, 2022 .  The deadline to submit your Application is 11:59 p.m. CDT March 13, 2022

Optional webinar on application process is January 10, 2022 from 12:00–1:00 ET // 11:00–12:00 CT // 10:00–11:00 MT // 9:00–10:00 PT

Link to webinar: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98285163612

Please see the attached RFP for more information regarding eligibility, selection criteria, and application instructions. More details can also be found here

 

National Dissertation Award for Research on Poverty and Economic Mobility 2022–2023

The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications from dissertators who are individuals belonging to groups that are underrepresented in academia for its 2022-2023 National Dissertation Award for Research on Poverty and Economic Mobility program. This award is provided with the financial support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Human Services Policy (U.S. DHHS/ASPE/HSP).

IRP has established this award to support an outstanding dissertation project that explores issues of poverty, economic mobility, equity, inclusion, diversity, and access in human services. Competitive dissertation proposals will produce actionable policy research on reducing inequalities in human services administered by HHS (e.g., child welfare, child support, child care, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, youth homeless services, and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program). Research on the broader social safety net programs (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, subsidized housing programs, employment and training programs, and tax credits) will also be considered, especially when those programs interact with the human services administered by HHS.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students at U.S. universities, other than UW-Madison, who are individuals belonging to groups that are underrepresented in academia and whose dissertation is focused on issues related to poverty, economic mobility, equity, inclusion, diversity, and access in human services. IRP is using the definition of underrepresented as outlined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Underrepresentation can exist in various forms, from one’s race or ethnicity, to ability status, gender identity or sexual orientation, or current or past economic disadvantage. Applicants will be asked to share relevant demographic data in their application and describe how they meet the NIH definition of underrepresented in their field of study.

Applicants should expect to complete their required coursework by September 2022 and can reasonably expect to complete their Ph.D. by the 2023-2024 academic year or earlier. Applicants need the support of their dissertation chair as documented through a letter of support provided by the dissertation chair as part of the application package.

The award contract period is flexible depending on needs of the applicant, but funding must be spent by September 29, 2023. Funding can be used during summer 2022, fall semester 2022, spring semester 2023, summer 2023 or any combination of the preceding times.  Funding can be used to cover items including tuition, stipend, data acquisition (e.g., data access fees, purchase of data sets, collection of qualitative data, etc.), research assistance, subject payments (including compensating community members or others with lived experience who consult on the project), travel (for data collection or access or to attend a research conference), and supplies. Other research expenses will be considered on a case-by-case basis. University indirect costs may also be billed but IRP encourages home institutions to waive this cost.

The deadline to submit applications is 11:59 p.m. CDT, February 13, 2022.

Optional webinar on the application process will be held on January 13, 2022 from 1:00 – 2:00 ET // 12:00 – 1:00 CT // 11:00 – 12:00 MT // 10:00 – 11:00 PT

Webinar link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98550299961