Call for Proposals in Research, Multimedia and Art: 2020-2021 Global Sport Institute Seed Grant Program: Sex, Gender, Sexuality in Sport
The Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University is a research institute where diverse disciplines come together to thoughtfully examine critical issues affecting sport throughout the world. The purpose of the Global Sport Institute Seed Grant Program is to provide one-time funding for well-defined, innovative, translational pilot studies that 1) have a high probability of successful future large-scale external funding and 2) deliver impactful results that can be translated globally to sport stakeholders. Our goal is to make a positive impact on sport and anyone connected to sport. Through our seed grant program, the Institute provides financial support that allows deeper exploration of the issues confronting sport.
Annual Theme
Each year the Institute selects an annual theme that is integrated into our research, lectures, events, and multimedia content. The purpose of the annual theme is to provide a context for researchers across disciplines to apply their expertise to an impactful area. We challenge researchers to expand or pivot their work in new directions. Previous years' themes, including "Race and Sport Around the Globe" and "Sport and the Body," allowed researchers from diverse fields to promote their findings to new networks and find new audiences. The theme for this year is Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport.
To further build our knowledge base, we invite faculty and students to advance their disciplines and pursue work that explores any of the broad, global issues they consider related to Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport. We ask applicants to clearly articulate how they conceptualize, define, and consider sex and gender in their proposed work and how their projects might create positive impact. In addition, we desire that the proposed work be global in nature, examining issues, processes, or phenomena that can or will affect audiences throughout the world.
We will consider all areas of interest that explore gender, sex, and sexuality in connection with sport. Instead of listing specific fields or study ideas, we have decided to ask, 'How does your field and area of expertise study topics that involve sex, gender, and/or sexuality in connection with sport?' Does your field include studies that distinguish between sexes, genders, and sexualities? Does your field focus on one subset of these terms in particular (e.g. women, men, transgender men and women, queer, gay men or lesbian women)? Specific topics could come from physical, social, technological, artistic, identity-driven, policy-related, communicative, or other realms of study. Topics might include changes in performance, the technology used to enhance performance for particular sexes, and the practices and instruments of sex testing. One might consider unequal policy and institutional forms of oppression (e.g. IOC bans on androgynous athletes), a history of the conflation of sex and gender in sport, or the quality of experience on and off playing fields for transgender and gay athletes. Also, one could consider resistant and empowering representations of body image and the policing of bodies done by society and media, in old and new ways. As long as a proposal connects with these themes and sport, we welcome it for serious consideration. Priority will be given to proposals that are structured to examine issues in a global fashion and/or that focus on seldom-heard populations around the world.
Additional Priorities
We welcome other interpretations of the Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport theme that are not confined to traditional research-based studies.
We encourage proposals from all fields and will give special attention to multi-disciplinary team projects.
Additional and Future Research
As noted earlier, the Global Sport Institute’s research theme will change on an annual basis. Future years may focus on topics such as policy, sustainability, and access. The Institute invites those wishing to jumpstart their research related to any of these topics to submit a proposal during the 2020-21 application period. Although these proposals will fall outside the annual research theme, we will provide feedback, and applicants will be well positioned for subsequent calls if not selected in this round.
In addition, the Institute is committed to the long-term exploration of its past annual themes and will accept a limited number of qualified proposals covering the themes of Sport 2036, Race and Sport Around the Globe, and Sport and The Body.
Finally, we are willing on a case-by-case basis to consider other exceptional sport-related research proposals that fall outside of the previously stated themes.
Internal Deadline: Friday, September 18, 2020.
For more details and to apply, please see: https://asu.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1823058.