CELSS Announces Seed Grants for Untenured Faculty
The Columbia Experimental Laboratory in the Social Sciences (CELSS) announces a seed-grant competition targeted to untenured faculty members for experimental projects that will make use of the lab.
Maximum amount: $5,000/grant.
Application
The deadline for Fall 2017 applications is December 1st, 2017.
Later applications may be considered on a rolling basis, depending on funds’ availability. Applications will be evaluated competitively by a committee of referees.
The application must include: (1) the proposal; (2) the budget; (3) the applicant’s cv; (4) a statement detailing additional sources of funding for the project. The proposal should outline briefly the question under study, the experimental procedures, and the reasons why the project is expected to result into a broader research program and outside grant. Its maximum length is 2,000 words, excluding bibliography.
The explicit involvement of one or more graduate students, identified by name, will be considered an asset to the proposal.
The application should be submitted in electronic form to celss-director@columbia.edu.
Eligibility
Applicants must be untenured faculty at Columbia in Economics, Political Science, SIPA, the Business School, or a department affiliated with ISERP.
Note:
- Unless part of a class, any experiment at CELSS requires approval by the Institutional Review Board (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irb/) and the respect of the rules of use for the laboratory (http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/celss/rules/).
- The funding allocation expires at the end of the second semester following the grant (here: June 2018). Unused funds will be reappropriated by CELSS.
Requests for clarification
Questions concerning this call for proposal and the use of the lab can be addressed to the CELSS manager, at celss-manager@columbia.edu, or to the CELSS director at celss-director@columbia.edu.