Center on Forced Displacement Seed Grants – Call for Applications
The Center on Forced Displacement (CFD) serves as a platform for educators, students, researchers, activists, and policymakers to engage in interdisciplinary research, discussion, and education about forced displacement. Through interdisciplinary, international collaboration, we identify, research, and work to resolve challenges of forced displacement, one of the major moral imperatives of our time. By connecting with local communities in Boston and the USA, as well as our partners in Uganda, Colombia, Lebanon, Western Balkans and elsewhere, CFD learns directly from and with the communities grappling with the challenges of forced displacement and creates venues for new ways of thinking, research, and program and project design.
The Center announces its inaugural call for proposals for seed grants in the amount of $20,000 or $10,000. CFD will award Spring 2023 seed grants to the applicants whose projects are related to forced displacement and broadly fall into one or more of Center’s research areas of focus.
Release Date: November 3, 2022
Application Deadline: November 30, 2022
Award announced: December 15th, 2022
Funds available: January 2nd, 2023
Award Information:
The Center supports research and engagement with forced displacement and humanitarian emergencies that is truly interdisciplinary and of the highest scholarly and ethical standards. CFD is interested in new ideas, technologies, scholarship, awareness, and solution identification that will improve the human condition of vulnerable persons who are forced to leave their homes. The center identifies four intersecting, multi-disciplinary areas of focus:
- Human environments and climates;
- Art, expression, identities;
- Healthy lives and meaningful livelihoods; and
- Training and ethical engagement
Once awarded, funds may be carried forward at most one year and by approval only. This award is available to all BU faculty. Awarded research teams will present their work during a CFD work in progress meeting.
Eligibility:
- Each seed grant proposal must have at least two faculty members (as PI and co-PI) who represent different schools or colleges on campus (with an exception for CAS where colleagues from humanities or social sciences may partner with colleagues from natural, physical or computation sciences and vice versa).
- One of the PIs must be CFD Affiliate Faculty member.
- CFD would like to support projects with long term plans, and we encourage all applicants to think beyond this seed grant and include plans for follow-on funding in their application.
- Objective and aims of the research proposal must have a focus on forced displacement but approach may originate from any of a broad range of disciplines.
- The research proposal must fall into at least one of the four research areas of focus as mentioned above.
Application Materials:
- A short (2-page) research proposal which should include
- The goals of the proposed research, its significance, its potential impact and connection with one of the four themes of CFD
- A description of the research team: collaborators and schools represented
- Anticipated research outcomes
- Plans for follow-on funding
- Timeline of the proposed project
- CV (2 page maximum) of PI and co-PI
- Budget (funding may be used for student or post-doctoral scholar support and fringe benefits, travel, or supplies. Funds may not be used for faculty summer salary or course release).
To Apply: Send all application material as one PDF document to cfd@bu.edu.
Where to Direct Inquiries:
Please direct any questions to CFD Director of Programs, Marina Lazetic at mlazetic@bu.edu.