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As a grantmaking organization, UC Humanities Research Institute primarily funds UC faculty and graduate students who participate in innovative research and projects that engage a variety of disciplines and stakeholders. Application deadline for 2025-2026 cycle is Feb. 3, 2025.
Proposal Requirements: Requests should be 500 words or less, include what support is requested, identify why the support is important for the department, the School and the University as a whole, and specify how the support will enhance the student or faculty experience.
Eligibility:
Terms:
School's Strategic Goals:
Deadlines:
To Apply: Please complete the proposal application via the online portal.
Questions? Contact Anthony King (apk006@ucsd.edu)
The School of Arts and Humanities is committed to addressing systemic racism, anti-Black and anti-Asian hate, and white privilege, and continues to investigate the racial dimensions of the liberal arts and diversity and inclusion.
As part of the broader Strategic Plan for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the Inclusive Excellence Initiative intends to amplify the crucial EDI work by faculty across the School of Arts and Humanities.
View the below linked calendars supplied by the Dean's office for funding opportunities. These documents include funding due dates, maximum amounts offered and sponsor/funder details. These links are updated semi-regularly with additions, deletions or other changes.
Your department Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and Fiscal Manager will provide proposal assistance, primarily focusing on budget development and administrative logistics. The School of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Office can work closely with the PI and designated staff to investigate options and provide proposal feedback. We each work in partnership with the Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA) to provide support for the development of large, complex, multidisciplinary research proposals.
OCGA is responsible for contract and grant management for UC San Diego and their role includes:
Recommended Submission Schedule
Provide to your CAO and Fiscal Manager:
Provide to your CAO and Fiscal Manager, with the option to include the Dean’s Office staff:
Submit draft documents to CAO and Fiscal Manager for compilation into application package and submission to OCGA for review:
Review entire proposal for submission. Provide final version of required documents to Research Administrator.
Final proposal is due to OCGA by 8 a.m. Final documents are due to your department administrative staff by noon on the business day prior to the agency's published deadline.
Confirm proposal has been submitted. Review submitted application online if applicable.
Inform your department CAO and Fiscal Manager as soon as an award or a declination of a proposal has been received.
Additional items to consider:
Funding Resources for Researchers (link): Resources and services across campus support investigators seeking funding for research activities.
Based in the Office of Research Affairs, the Research Development team supports investigators throughout campus in developing large, interdisciplinary, and/or strategic proposals.
The team provides curated resources to support a variety of common funding pursuits, such as recurring early-career programs.
Research Development distributes selected research funding opportunity announcements, including those for limited-submission programs, through two campus-wide lists. To subscribe to listservs, log in at the links below with your SSO (@ucsd.edu) credentials:
Subscribe to the Corporate and Foundations Relations newsletter, request a one-on-one virtual meeting with a CFR team member, or quickly let them know who you are so they can include you in communications: Fill out the Faculty Questionnaire, with your name, title, department, start date and research key words.
Corporate and Foundation Relations is your campus partner in securing private corporation and foundation support. They offer several pages with funding opportunities: Big Ideas, upcoming corporate and foundation deadlines, young investigators, postdoctoral opportunities and awards.
Subscribe to the Corporate and Foundations Relations newsletter, request a one-on-one virtual meeting with a CFR team member, or quickly let them know who you are so they can include you in communications: Fill out the Faculty Questionnaire, with your name, title, department, start date and research key words.
The Corporate and Foundation Relations team continually adds new funding opportunities from corporate and private foundation funders that are available to the UC San Diego community. The database at the Corporate and Foundation Relations website reflects opportunities with a deadline within the next six months or with a rolling deadline.
Limited-submission funding opportunities are those for which the sponsor limits the number of proposals UC San Diego may submit. Opportunities are posted through an internal application portal (InfoReady Review) and distributed via the two opt-in mail list.
When the number of internal applications for a given funding opportunity exceeds the allowable number of external submissions, internal review is conducted by one or more of four standing faculty committees, members of which are appointed by the Academic Senate. Recommendations on the most competitive applications are provided to the Vice Chancellor for Research. All applicants are notified of the outcome and provided reviewer comments, if any, on their applications.
In accordance with the current UC-AFT/UC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), a Professional Development Fund provides Unit 18 Faculty with financial support for professional development activities.
As the relevant section of Article 9, Paragraph C.4 of the MOU states, “Individual Unit 18 faculty will be eligible to submit requests for funding to support proposals for professional development including but not limited to professional meetings, training seminars, software and paid leave, all of which should be in support of pedagogical endeavors. Only those Unit 18 Faculty with continuing appointments will be eligible to submit requests for paid leave.”
The phrase “pedagogical endeavors” is interpreted broadly to refer to all activities and projects that contribute to the Unit 18 faculty member’s professional development and effectiveness as a teacher at UC San Diego.
See the Academic Personnel Services website for detailed information on applying for these funds.
To find and stay updated on external funding opportunities, you can:
UC San Diego subscribes to a monthly newsletter, Research Development & Grant Writing News, that provides information and advice for faculty, researchers, staff and graduate students on how to compete successfully for research and education funding from federal agencies and foundations.
The newsletter is published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, and our institutional subscription limits distribution to within UC San Diego. Access the most-recent editions (login required).
To receive the newsletter directly, please subscribe to the Funding Announcements listserv using the @ucsd.edu form of your email.