The National Science Foundation is accepting applications for research grants in several fields.
Law and Science Program
The Law and Science Program is accepting applications for Standard Research Grants/Grants for Collaborative Research, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, and Conference Awards. The program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences. Fields of study include many disciplines, and often address problems including, though not limited to:
- Crime, Violence, and Policing
- Cyberspace
- Economic Issues
- Environmental Issues
- Governance and Courts
- Information Technology
- Litigation and the Legal Profession
- Punishment and Corrections
- Regulation and Facilitation of Biotechnology and Other Emerging Sciences and Technologies
- Use of Science in the Legal Processes
Read the full program solicitation for more information.
Who is eligible: graduate students
Deadline: January 15, 2020
Science and Technology Studies Program
The Science and Technology Studies Program is accepting applications for Standard Research Grants/Grants for Collaborative Research, Scholar Awards, Professional Development Grants, Research Community Development Grants, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, and Conference Awards. The program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the STEM disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines.
Read the full program solicitation for more information.
Who is eligible: graduate students
Deadline: February 3, 2020
Science of Science Program
The Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact Program is accepting applications for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. The program is designed to understand the scientific research enterprise and increase the public value of scientific activity, and pursues this goal by supporting basic research in three fundamental areas:
- How to increase the rate of socially beneficial discovery;
- How to improve science communication outcomes; and
- How to expand the societal benefits of scientific study
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants are designed to improve the quality of dissertation research. The grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student’s university, such as enabling doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus. Dissertation Improvement Grants do not provide cost-of-living or other stipends, or tuition. Read the full program solicitation for more information.
Who is eligible: doctoral students
Deadline: February 10, 2020
Linguistics Program
The Linguistics: Dynamic Language Infrastructure Program is accepting applications for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants. The program supports doctoral research focusing on building dynamic language infrastructure. Developing language infrastructure includes the documentation and preservations of languages in ways that articulate or advance linguistic theory, as well as the use of digitization techniques and novel computational methods that support and advance the study of language. Special emphasis is given to human languages that are endangered, i.e., understudied and at risk of falling out of use. The program supports the development of the next generation of researchers that contribute to language data management and archiving, and to the analysis of these archives to advance language infrastructure.
Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Read the full program solicitation for more information.
Who is eligible: doctoral students
Deadline: rolling