- Deadline: January 22, 2024
- Value: $20,000/grant X 3
- Application Procedures + Form provided below
- Must include 2+ UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law, appointed to a minimum of two different departments. Can include additional faculty members from other faculties or universities as appropriate.
- Interdisciplinary Themes:
- Global Race, Anti-Racism & Social Justice Humanities
- Environmental/Climate, Land & Place-Based Humanities
- Health, Body, & Dis/Ability Humanities
- Critical Digital Humanities, Multiple Materialities & New Publics
- Justice, Public Memory, & Narrative Humanities
- Supports new, interdisciplinary and collaborative public humanities research projects in initial stages proposed by small (2) or larger (3+) teams with the intent subsequently to apply for Tri-Council funding. This grant is a pilot project for 2023-2024.
- For queries related to this grant, please contact the Public Humanities Hub manager, Heather Tam, phh.manager@ubc.ca.
INTRODUCTION
Priority Thematic Public Humanities Research Incubator Grants support new, interdisciplinary and collaborative public humanities research projects in initial stages proposed by small (2) or larger (3+) teams with the intent subsequently to apply for Tri-Council funding. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new Humanities methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.
The Incubator Grants provide funds to support early stage interdisciplinary and collaborative research activities that will maintain or strengthen research capacity and research excellence and, importantly, advance knowledge in the humanities.
Applicants to the Thematic Incubator Grants will propose interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects that are located within, and aim to advance knowledge concerning, one or more of these themes. These Themes represent substantive academic priorities for the Public Humanities Hub, and link up with one or more of our thematic Humanities Hub networks:
- Global Race, Anti-Racism & Social Justice Humanities
- Environmental/Climate, Land & Place-Based Humanities
- Health, Body, & Dis/Ability Humanities
- Critical Digital Humanities, Multiple Materialities & New Publics
- Justice, Public Memory, & Narrative Humanities
ELIGIBILITY
The Public Humanities Hub Thematic Incubator Grants will provide funding to research teams made up of at least two full-time, tenured or tenure-track UBC faculty members, appointed to a minimum of two different departments, plus graduate students and staff in Arts, Law, and Education to work on Humanities-oriented research projects that include public-facing components.
The Public Humanities Hub Thematic Incubator Grants support teams to carry out new research activities and cementing the research group by means of collaborative gatherings and/or events. The applicant team must not have been awarded funding to carry out research in this particular area previously. This research activity is in the emergent stages for all team members. Team members may have an extensive trajectory of funding and publications pertinent to the broad theme to which a given application is directed. It is expected, however, that the particular research project proposed in the application represents new research for all team members. This particular research should not have previously been awarded Tri-Agency or other major funding, apart from a Seed Grant or other funding < $5,000.
The project should:
- Be framed and designed through critical, Public Humanities methods and scholarship;
- Identify a significant knowledge advance that represents a contribution of this scholarly work;
- Acknowledge that public scholarship of necessity attends to human rights and other minoritizing histories and processes that characterize public settings;
- Include a Principal Investigator from the UBC-V Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, or Allard School of Law;
- Represent research that is clearly designed to address exclusions to access to knowledge; systemic exclusions that restrict the potential publicness of knowledge, reflect the colonial roots of humanities knowledge, and that impact particular publics, including but not limited to, historically, persistently and systemically marginalized groups.
WHEN, WHO AND WHAT?
Priority Thematic Public Humanities Research Incubator Grants funds are awarded in Winter Term 2. Up to three grants will be awarded up to $20,000 each.
Funding is provided for short-term innovative, collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects of up to two years that are proposed by small (2) or large teams (3+).
Priority Thematic Public Humanities Research Incubator Grants foster research in its early stages and are not intended to support large-scale initiatives. These grants are intended to provide the foundation for applications to Tri-Council and other major funding.
Projects can also involve national and international research collaboration, and the exploration of new Public Humanities ways of producing, structuring and mobilizing knowledge within and across disciplines and sectors.
The Priority Thematic Public Humanities Research Incubator Grants is a research project-based funding stream, which means your proposal must be grounded in academic literature, include research questions and articulated objective, defined public/s, and a budget. Your project must meet all of the following criteria to be considered for a Thematic Incubator grant.
- Research that has previously been funded, in part or in full, is not eligible. Funds are not intended to supplement current or completed Tri-Council or other currently funded projects or duplicate support for projects awaiting funding decisions from other sources.
- Preference will be given to proposals that offer opportunities for graduate student training/mentorship.
- Projects must support new research and proposals must make clear how these seed funds will enable future research (e.g., lay foundation for an external research grant).
- Preference will be given to projects which lay the foundation for a (specified) external research grant.
ELIGIBLE EXPENSES
Grantees are highly encouraged to use PHH funds to hire Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs), although all expenses eligible under the Tri-Agency expense guidelines will be permissible except those related to conferences (registration, travel, accommodation, per diem, paper preparation, etc.) and computer equipment purchases and event curation (e.g., honoraria, catering, travel).
ACCESS TO FUNDS
A UBC Research Project Information Form (RPIF) and brief budget will be submitted with your application. Funds for grant recipients will be transferred to an ORS research account that will be administered by your home department. Funds will be accessible for two years.
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Recipients agree to submit a final brief report on the project supported by the incubator grant, and to be featured in Hub communications (including our website, annual report, and social media). Any promotion of your project should acknowledge that this is a Public Humanities Hub-funded project by including the Hub logo. Depending on your project, the Hub may also be able to provide communications and event support.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
Please complete the following:
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- Grant Proposal Form (PDF: Click Here)
- Additional Grant Proposal Attachment pages as per below (see Attachment Requirements)
- Research Project Information Form (RPIF) (PDF: Click Here)
Note: DOWNLOAD AND COMPLETE the Grant Proposal Form IN ADOBE. DO NOT COMPLETE FORM IN BROWSER.
- Attachment: How will your research advance knowledge in the public humanities? ((maximum half-page) as defined here)
- Attachment: How does your project/methodology represent a commitment to social justice? (maximum half-page)
- Attachment: How will your project offer opportunities for graduate student training and/or mentorship? (maximum half-page)
- Attachment: Principal Applicant’s peer-reviewed publication history since 2015 and Principal Applicant’s competitively adjudicated research grants history since 2015. Please do not submit full UBC CVs and please do not submit Co-Applicant CVs (no page limit).
- Attachment: Team Member’s peer-reviewed publication history since 2015 and Team Member’s competitively adjudicated research grants history since 2015 (1-page per team member) *up to 5 team members maximum.
For the attachments #2-7, note Attachment Requirements
The RPIF should be signed by the Principal Applicant, the Principal Applicant’s Department/Unit Head, and the Faculty Dean or designate, typically the Associate Dean Research. Please check the turnaround times for Department and Faculty signatures.
Attachment Requirements
The completed Application Form and all attachments must be submitted as a single bookmarked PDF which conforms to the following formatting conventions:
- Font: Size 12 pt Times New Roman
- Page size: 8 ½” x 11”
- Spacing: Single-spaced
- Margins: Minimum ¾ inch (1.87 mm)
- Whole PDF must be Bookmarked
Please save these documents, in this order, as a single, bookmarked PDF file and name the Application and the RPIF files by using the following respective formats:
IncubatorGrant2024Applicantsurname.pdf
IncubatorGrant2024ApplicantsurnameRPIF.pdf
Please upload both the bookmarked form & attachments as a single PDF, as well as the RPIF PDF, via the online submission form below.
Proposals are due January 22, 2024.
For queries related to this grant, please contact the Public Humanities Hub manager, Heather Tam, phh.manager@ubc.ca.