FUNDING OPP: Spencer Foundation Major Grant

Background

The Spencer Foundation funds research that investigates ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. The Major Grant program funds larger scale research projects.

Opportunity

The Foundation’s major research grants are organized under four areas of inquiry that identify broad topics it believes have fundamental and abiding importance for educational improvement:

1. The Relation Between Education and Social Opportunity: The Foundation seeks to shed light on the role education plays in reducing economic and social inequalities – as well as, sometimes, reinforcing them – and to find ways to more fully realize education’s potential to promote more equal opportunity.
2. Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Systems: Sustained improvement in educational performance requires continuous learning within and among schools, education systems, and higher education institutions. The Foundation is interested in advancing understanding of ways to strengthen the capacity of schools and education systems as learning organizations.
3. Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources: A key aim of research in this initiative is to support investigations of questions that are grounded directly in teaching practice as well as in research about important aspects of teaching and learning processes that hold promise for enriching opportunities to learn and for guiding informed policy making. The Foundation is particularly interested in studies of teaching and teacher development.
4. Purposes and Values of Education: One important aspect of such inquiry is the question of the relationship between public and political understandings of educational purposes and values, on the one hand, and educational policies and practices on the other. Analytical, historical and empirical work that probes effectively and creatively into these deeply challenging and permanently important issues can contribute mightily toward social decision-making that moves education along constructive paths.

Eligibility

• Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-PIs applying for a Research Grant must have an earned doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field, or appropriate experience in an education research-related profession.
• The PI must be affiliated with a college, university, research facility, school district, or cultural institution that is willing to serve as the fiscal agent if the grant is awarded. Research Grant proposals from individuals are not eligible.
• Proposals are accepted from the U.S. and internationally, however all proposals must be submitted in English and budgets must be proposed in U.S. Dollars.
• PIs and Co-PIs may only hold one active research grant from the Spencer Foundation at a time. Simultaneous submissions to Spencer from PIs and Co-PIs are discouraged due to this policy.

Funding Available

• Funds available: $50,001 to $500,000 per award

Full Details

• Full details regarding the Major Grants Program

Deadlines

CURO Checklist and Instructions for faculty submissions

Internal Contacts

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact:

• your Research Facilitator or Carleton International for help with proposal development and substantive review:

Tuesday, November 26, 2013  |  Categories: Funding Opportunities
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