Interdisciplinary MiniLabs.02: Innovation Through Humanities
Deadline: April 29, 2024
Eligibility
UCR Faculty
Award Period
Summer 2024 – Spring 2025
Award Amount
$500 in research funds for participants
Award Description
The Center for Ideas and Society’s “Being Human” Initiative and the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development invite proposals for cross-campus, interdisciplinary research mini-labs under the rubric of Innovation Through Humanities.
Proposals for small, interdisciplinary, short-term labs may explore any research area but should include a strong grounding in humanities scholarship and methods. In addition to the group’s main research agenda, labs should reflect on and interrogate at least one of the following questions:
- How can the humanities guide innovation and problem-solving in other disciplines?
- What form do innovative and successful collaborations across academic fields take?
- Should we reimagine traditional humanities disciplines and, if so, how?
The goal of these experimental and interdisciplinary workgroups is to foster cross-campus conversations and seed grant applications (individually or as a group).
Application Requirements
MiniLab.02 project groups meet over the course of one quarter in Summer 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025 or Spring 2025
- Each lab will consist of 4-5 UCR faculty investigators, with at least 2 members from CHASS
- Each participant will receive $500 in research funds at the end of the project
- If desired, funds may be pooled to cover group meeting expenses during the quarter
- At the end of the quarter, each group will submit a position paper that outlines the work conducted and provide information about grant applications coming from the minilab
- Participants agree to attend a lunch in spring or fall 2025 to meet with other MiniLab 2.0 groups
Complete Proposals Include
Information on lead PI/convener
Additional participants
Project description
Timeline of proposed meetings or activities
Applications due by 11:59 PM on the deadline.
Online ApplicationEvaluation Criteria
Project Focus
- The importance of the questions, issues, or problems the collaboration seeks to address.
- The capacity of the project to enhance or develop insights into or an understanding of these questions, issues, or problems.
- The extent to which the project has appropriately taken account of existing research and scholarship.
Participants
- The ability of the participants to complete or make a significant advancement on the project.
Management
- The clarity of lines of responsibility and accountability.
Impact
- Potential to lay groundwork for future research, programs, and grant applications.
- Potential to establish innovative collaboration across schools and colleges.
Funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development and the Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society.