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Applications for Racial Equity in Education Research Conference

Sponsors:
Spencer Foundation
Amount:
$50,000
External Deadline:
05/06/21
Opportunity Information:

The Spencer Foundation welcomes applications for its Conference Grant Program.

The program provides support to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers interested in developing small research conferences or focused symposia budgets of up to $50,000) that explore critical issues in racial equity in education research. To that end, the program seeks proposals with the potential to bring together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, or other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, and/or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help build on and advance racial equity in education research, practice, or policy.

Proposals are welcomed that aim to grow the current scope of research on racial equity, develop new knowledge through interdisciplinary scholarly engagement, or as a way to collaborate to increase the impact of educational research. Applicants are encouraged to carefully and innovatively think about the format and pedagogy of their proposed conference or convenings. The program is not restricted to traditional formats, so, for example, applicants might consider a series of smaller convenings that are in-person or online, or some combination of both.

While the field of education has focused on issues of inequality and its growth in the United States, there is a pressing need, given the current intersection of the COVID-19 public health crisis, rapid shifts in educational systems, economic challenges and growing civil resistance to systemic anti-blackness, for robust approaches to scholarship that can consequentially contribute to achieving racial equity. To that end, the foundation encourages a wide range of approaches designed to creatively and ambitiously engage in approaches to advancing racial equity and is especially interested in proposals that include a focus on methodological needs and advancements.

The program is limited to conference/symposia budgets of no more than $50,000.

To be eligible, PIs and co-PIs must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or have obtained appropriate experience in an education research-related profession. Applicants also must be affiliated with a nonprofit college, university, school district, or research facility willing to serve as the administering organization if the grant is awarded.

See the Spencer Foundation website for complete program guidelines and application instructions.

ASU Information:

Submissions to this sponsor/donor are managed by the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Please contact your unit-assigned ASUF Director of Development or Research Advancement Specialist at your earliest convenience to ensure ASU's strategic coordination and management of funding applications.

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