Large Research Grants
Deadline: Biannual deadline dates are the second Tuesday in October and second Tuesday in February
Funding Amount: Funding Amount: $2,500 - $15,000
Purpose
ISLA offers large grants of up to $15,000 to support faculty research and creative work in three categories: arts, humanities, and social sciences. These internal grants can help fund preliminary work or data collection that may enable faculty to be more competitive for external grants and fellowships.
Proposals submitted in the Large Grants for Research in the Social Sciences category should have some quantitative dimension to the methodology or rigorous qualitative methods. Arts and Letters Faculty in the social sciences whose work is more closely aligned with the humanities are encouraged to submit their proposals to the Large Grants for Research in the Humanities category. Please note: Recipients of the Large Grant for Research in the Social Sciences must submit a grant proposal to a major external agency within 18 months of receiving the ISLA grant.
All ISLA Large Grants are reviewed by an anonymous panel of Arts and Letters faculty. The review process takes about a month to complete.
Restrictions
Large Grants cannot be used to cover:
- Funds to upgrade Campus Workstation Program (CWP) computers
- Equipment; Notre Dame Research has a yearly competition for equipment purchase and replacement
- Electronic devices such as cameras, recorders, laptops/computers
- Travel to domestic or international conferences
- Salary for course buyout or summer salary for faculty
- Graduate student support
A faculty member who is awarded a Large Research grant cannot apply to the program again for a period of 3 years (eligibility for other grant programs is unaffected).
Application Instructions
To apply, please submit a proposal through ISLA's web portal with the following:
- Narrative of no more than the equivalent of 4 single-spaced pages describing:
- Significance of the project to the field
- Methodology
- Work plan and timeframe for both the overall project and the portion of the project ISLA would support
- Information about any collaborators
- Any other information that will help the review committee assess the proposal
- Future external funding
- Prospective funding agencies, foundations, institutes
- Why these agencies are a good fit for the project
- Any experience you have had or funding you have received from each agency, foundation, institute
- Section or branch of the agency/foundation/institute to be targeted for external funding
- Contact you have had with program officers
- Full budget and budget justification
- List of any previous ISLA internal funding for last 5 years (when, how much, and for what project)
- List of all current and pending research support (including internal and external)
- An abbreviated, 2-page CV
- In addition to the support requested from ISLA, please list all other potential sources, the amount requested from those sources, and contact information for those sources (name, email address, phone number)
Review Criteria:
Please take all review criteria into account when constructing your proposal.
- Intellectual, methodological, and/or creative quality of the work proposed
- Significance of the issue to be studied within the applicant's discipline and/or related disciplines
- Qualifications and track record (based on rank) of the applicant
- Likelihood that the project will be successful
- The prospect that the project might lead to external grants in the future