Call for Proposals
for University of California, Berkeley Faculty and Students
Grant period: December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2025
Application deadline: Monday, October 21, 2024, 5:00pm (PT)
AARC has two four funding calls in one application! The same application is for both grant programs below as well as our Critical Pacific Islander and Critical Southeast Asian American Studies Research Fellowships. You can apply for more than one of the funding opportunities, but you will only receive one.
AARC Research Grant
The Asian American Research Center (AARC) invites proposals from current UCB faculty and graduate students working on scholarly, community engagement, and/or creative projects that focus on Asian American populations. We seek projects that center Asian American perspectives, agency, and epistemologies. We are especially interested in funding projects that engage communities as partners and/or involve Asian American populations. AARC accepts proposals from a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches. Intersectional analysis is particularly welcomed.
AAPI Data Seed Grant
AAPI Data’s seed grants program invites applications from current UCB faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students for projects that use social science research methods (including qualitative, quantitative, mixed method approaches) to answer questions pertaining to the experiences, outcomes, and disparities faced by Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations in the United States. Research can include examination of particular groups, as well as comparative analyses across groups, including comparisons to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and comparisons to Asian and Pacific Islander populations in other countries.
Grant Funding
The grant can be used to complete an entire project, to provide seed money to start a larger project, or to accomplish smaller tasks of a larger project.
Due to the competitive selection process, the final amount awarded may be less than the amount requested. All funds must be spent by November 30, 2025.
Maximum amount of each faculty award is $5,000. Faculty can request funds for GSR funding, research travel, and/or other research-related expenses. Funds cannot be used for conference travel/registration.
Maximum amount of each graduate student award is $5,000. Graduate students can request funds for living expense stipends (as taxable and financial aid reportable income) and/or for reimbursement for research travel and/or other research-related expenses. Funds cannot be used for conference travel/registration.
Maximum amount of each undergraduate student award is $1,000. Undergraduate students can request funds for living expense stipends (as taxable and financial aid reportable income) and/or for reimbursement for research travel and/or other research-related expenses. Funds cannot be used for conference travel/registration.
Restrictions
Applicants may submit only one project. Competitive candidates who do not receive funding for this cycle are encouraged to reapply in future cycles.
Grant monies cannot be used for the purchase of computer equipment, books, and/or any other materials for personal use. Purchases of equipment and other materials for the project must be pre-approved and will be considered the property of the University of California, Berkeley.
Eligibility and Requirements
All research involving human subjects must be approved by the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects (OPHS) by the start of the funding period to ensure the protection of participants’ rights and welfare in the research process.
All UC Berkeley faculty members are eligible. UC Berkeley staff members with PI status are also eligible to apply for the faculty grant.
All UC Berkeley graduate students are eligible.
All UC Berkeley undergraduate students are eligible for the AAPI Data Seed Grant.
Previous recipients who have completed the reporting for their grant are eligible, but priority will go to those who have not yet received the grant.
Please acknowledge funding from the Asian American Research Center or from AAPI Data, UC Berkeley, in any websites, publications, presentations, or other products that result.
Outcomes
A final report must be submitted within a month after the conclusion of the grant term and must include a brief summary of the project for publication on our website and in other communications (newsletter, social media). Grantees may be invited to present their work, whether completed or in-progress, at an AARC event.
Application Process
Faculty
The faculty application form is available here.
You will be asked to provide:
- A title and an abstract of up to 250 words
- Budget and budget justification/rationale (as pdf, with filename: lastname_firstname_budget.pdf)
- Statement of project (as pdf; 750 words max - not including references, with filename: lastname_firstname_statement.pdf) Please include last name, first name at the top of the page. Please identify specific outcomes that the funding will make possible and include a timeline for the project. If there are any co-PI’s or other collaborators, please include that information in the statement.
- CV (of PIs) (as pdf; 3 pages max, with filename: lastname_firstname_CV.pdf)
Students
The student application is available here.
You will be asked to provide:
- A title and an abstract of up to 250 words
- Budget and budget justification/rationale (as pdf, with filename: lastname_firstname_budget.pdf). See sample here.
- Statement of project (as pdf; 750 words max. The word count includes notes and appendixes but does not include references. Filename: lastname_firstname_statement.pdf) Please include last name, first name at the top of the page, identify specific outcomes that the funding will make possible, and include a timeline for the project. If there are any co-PI’s or other collaborators, please include that information in the statement.
- CV or resume (of PIs) (as pdf; 3 pages max, with filename: lastname_firstname_CV.pdf)
- Letter of support from a faculty member (as pdf, with filename: lastname_firstname_letter.pdf, or if the letter writer prefers, they can email it to aarc@berkeley.edu). The letter should address the following points:
- How does this proposed project help advance the student's research?
- Is the student making good academic progress?
