CSWS to offer grant funding info sessions, workshop

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CSWS to offer grant funding info sessions, workshop

As the 2022-23 grant funding cycle rapidly approaches, CSWS will be hosting information sessions and a grant writing workshop to support graduate students and faculty through the funding application process. University of Oregon graduate students can apply for up to $3,000 and faculty/staff can apply for up to $6,000 to support research and/or creative work on women and gender from a range of disciplines.

In addition, the prestigious Jane Grant fellowship—honoring Jane Grant, early feminist and wife of CSWS’s benefactor, William Harris—is given annually to an outstanding scholar writing a dissertation on women and gender. Only UO graduate students who have been advanced to candidacy (or will be by the date of the award) are eligible to be considered for this competitive fellowship, which carries a stipend of $18,000 for the academic year, plus additional benefits.

CSWS also offers a $3,000 Graduate Writing Fellowship to doctoral students who are in the early stages of dissertation writing. The intent of this competitive fellowship is to provide a summer writing stipend to one or more top finalists for the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship. All Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship applicants will automatically be considered for the writing stipend.

On Friday, Nov. 19, 3–4 p.m., Interim Director Sangita Gopal will host a virtual grant funding information session for graduate students and faculty members new to the CSWS grant funding process. In the session, Gopal will explain the grant funding cycle and what kinds of research and creative work qualify for CSWS funding. In addition, Gopal will host an alternative drop-in session to answer questions 3–5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22. (See Zoom meeting links below.)

New this year, CSWS is hosting a graduate student grant writing workshop with Michael Murashige, writing consultant for the Center on Diversity and Community, from 11 a.m.–noon Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Knight Library DREAM Lab. The workshop will help graduate students write a strong CSWS grant application by reviewing important elements and some common oversights. The deadline to apply for the workshop is Friday, Nov. 26. Space is limited; writing workshop applications from students who attend one of the grant information sessions will be given registration preference.

The deadline to apply for all 2022-23 faculty, staff, and graduate student research grants is 5 p.m. Monday, January 31, 2022. Please be sure to download guidelines and read them before filling out your application.

Grant Funding Information Sessions:

Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop Application (due Friday, Nov. 26): https://forms.gle/pBTA8uZmBxdo8bSc6