Research Funding Opportunities

The Forge Prize 2022

Deadline: October 31, 2021 12:00 am

Source: The American Institute of Steel Construction

Description: This competition, established by The American Institute of Steel Construction in 2018, recognizes visionary emerging architects for designs that embrace steel as a primary structural component and capitalize on steel’s ability to increase a project’s speed. See website for more info.

Award: Three finalists will each win $5,000 and work with a steel fabricator before presenting their ideas to the judges–streamed live on YouTube. The winner will receive the $10,000 grand prize and an invitation to present at the Architecture in Steel conference, March 23-25, 2022 in Denver.

Eligibility: Open to designers based in the U.S. who are either still obtaining licensure or have been licensed for less than 10 years.

Deadline: Oct. 31, 2021

External Grant Landscape Architecture

Deb Mitchell Research Grant

Deadline: December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Landscape Architecture Foundation

Description: The LAF Research Grant in honor of Deb Mitchell supports research projects that are relevant and impactful for the professional practice of landscape architecture. Each year, one grant will be awarded to support a research project that can be completed in a 12-18 month period. The research must generate knowledge and insights relevant to the practice of design in order to increase landscape architecture’s capacity and impact.

Award: $25,000

Eligibility: PI must be trained as a landscape architect and currently engaged in the field of landscape architecture as a researcher, educator, professional practitioner, or in some other capacity.

Deadline: Pre-proposals due Dec. 1, 2021; shortlisted candidates submit full proposal by March 1, 2022.

Architecture Design External Landscape Architecture Residency

Currier Museum Artist-in-Residence

Deadline: December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Currier Museum of Art

Description: The Currier Museum of Art invites applications for the second annual open call for its Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, awarding up to two residencies between fall 2022 and spring 2023. This program will provide support for selected self-identified emerging artists or artist groups (of up to three people) focused on social practice. Due to the flexible nature of this program, these residencies can be for a period of 6-12 weeks between mid-October 2022 and mid-March 2023. The AIR program is central to the Currier Museum’s mission of connecting audiences with art and creative thinking. This program deepens the mission through an open call to social practice artists who share the goal of impacting people through the transformative power of art. Applicants must demonstrate a history of social engagement in their artmaking practice and production. Successful applicants will develop an innovative project with tangible outcomes that align with the tenets of their own practice, the mission of the museum, and the needs of the community partner(s) with whom they will collaborate.

Award: Resident artists receive a stipend of $1,000 per week, travel allowance up to $500, materials support, and housing in a fully furnished home. In many cases, resident artists may be able to have spouses/children accompany them. Service animals are welcome.

Eligibility: Individual artists or collectives of up to three people are eligible to apply. Artists and collectives working in any media are eligible. Artists must be able to commit at least six continuous weeks in residence during mid-Oct. 2022 to mid-March 2021. Selected artist must be able to demonstrate that they are legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021

All Disciplines External Fellowship

The Walter O. Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race

Deadline: December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Description: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is pleased to invite applications for a one-semester post-doctoral fellowship in honor of Walter O. Evans to study the American or global experience of slavery or race in the fall of 2022 or spring of 2023. The fellowship will support scholars who wish to use any of the Walter O. Evans collections, including the Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers, the Evans Collection of James Baldwin, and the Evans Collection of Ollie Harrington. The fellowship is also open to researchers interested in other collections related to race in the Beinecke Library or at any of Yale University Library’s other special collections repositories, including the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, the Yale Collection of Western Americana, and the Early Modern and Modern Collections. The fellowship program aims to facilitate research in Yale’s special collections by the broadest possible group of researchers, regardless of institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications are welcome from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research as well as from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research in the collections. See website for more info.

Award: Fellows will be awarded $8,000 per month to cover the costs of travel, accommodations, and other living expenses. Fellows must also submit a budget to be eligible to receive up to $5,000 in funding to cover travel to and from New Haven. In this travel budget, fellows may also apply for an additional 4 weeks of support to conduct research at other relevant research libraries. Fellows’ funding will be awarded at the beginning of the fellowship. All fellows are responsible for paying any taxes related to the receipt of their fellowship.

Eligibility: Applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree program at the time of their fellowship

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021

All Disciplines External Fellowship

Short-term Research Fellowships, Beinecke Library & Yale Special Collections

Deadline: December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Description: The Beinecke Library offers, on a competitive basis, short-term fellowships to support research in the Yale Library special collections. This application is open to academic and independent scholars, locally and globally, who would like to apply for funding to pursue research projects that require one to four months of onsite research with the collections. Applications are welcome from all interested researchers, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research are encouraged as are applications from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research in the collections. This is a residential fellowship and fellows are expected to spend the majority of their time in the reading room. Fellows are meant to participate in the intellectual life of the university and are encouraged to participate in the activities of library. See website for more info.

Award: Fellowships will be awarded in the amount of $5,000 per month for up to four months of research. Fellows must also submit a budget to be eligible to receive up to $5,000 in funding to cover travel to and from New Haven. The budget may also include travel costs for conducting research at other relevant research libraries directly following the fellowship period at Yale. Fellows’ funding will be awarded at the beginning of the fellowship. All fellows are responsible for paying any taxes related to the receipt of their fellowship.

Eligibility: Applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree program at the time of their fellowship

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021

All Disciplines External Grant

NEH Collaborative Research Program

Deadline: December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Source: National Endowment for the Humanities

Description: The Collaborative Research program aims to advance humanistic knowledge by supporting sustained collaboration between two or more scholars. Collaborators may be drawn from one or more institutions. The program allows projects that propose research in a single field of study, as well as interdisciplinary work. Projects that include partnerships with researchers from the natural and social sciences are encouraged but must employ a humanistic research agenda. The program includes four project categories: Planning International Collaboration, Conference, Manuscript Preparation, and Scholarly Digital Projects. The categories support different project types or stages and have different performance periods and award ceilings. Applicants must specify only one project category for support. See website for more info.

Award: Up to $250,000

Eligibility: Open to organizations. International collaboration encouraged, but project director must be based at a U.S. institution, and project teams must include an equitable balance of scholars based at U.S. institutions and scholars based at non-U.S. institutions. Proposed projects must aim to result in tangible and sustainable outcomes, such as co-authored or multi-authored books; digital publications; themed issues of peer-reviewed journals; or open-access scholarly digital resources. All project outcomes must incorporate collaboration and interpretation to address significant humanities research questions.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2021

External Grant Landscape Architecture Urbanism

People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice

Deadline: November 4, 2021 12:00 pm

Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Prevention Institute

Description: Despite widespread appreciation for the health and environmental benefits of urban parks and green spaces, evidence shows persistent inequities in access, availability, quality of facilities, and programming, by race, place, and income. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is working to build a Culture of Health where everyone in America has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible. Park equity is a key component of this vision. This call for proposals seeks especially small and mid-sized urban communities most impacted by park and green space inequities to participate. Community-based organizations are strongly encouraged to apply, especially those led by people of color working to build community power at the citywide, countywide, or districtwide level. They are interested in funding a spectrum of eligible organizations across the United States that either are in later or early stages of policy advocacy and systems change efforts to advance park equity. The “north star” of the initiative is upstream policy and systems change, not planning, building, or operating individual, on-the-ground projects. See website for more info.

Award: RWJF expects to award grants up to $500,000 each (up to $250,000 per year). Grants will be 24 months in duration, beginning in May 2022.

Eligibility: Applicant organizations must be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or nonfunctionally integrated Type III supporting organizations. Universities or academic institutions are not eligible to be the lead applicant, but they may serve as a coalition partner to the lead applicant. See website for full eligibility details.

Deadline: LOI due by 3 pm ET, Nov. 4, 2021

Architecture Building Science Design External Fellowship Heritage Conservation Landscape Architecture Urbanism

Loeb & Loeb/ArtLab Fellowship

Deadline: January 5, 2022 12:00 am

Source: Harvard GSD

Description Loeb Fellows are accomplished practitioners, influential in shaping the built and natural environment, whose work is advancing positive social outcomes in the US and around the world. In the middle of promising careers they step away from their hectic professional lives for one academic year. Fellows audit classes at the GSD and throughout the vast network of Harvard and MIT. They engage with faculty and students, participate in Fellowship events, and collaborate with their peers. They become part of a powerful growing network of colleagues passionately committed to revitalizing communities. The Loeb/ArtLab Fellowship is open to any artist or person with an artistic practice who applies for a Loeb Fellowship and meets the requirements thereof. The intention of a joint Loeb / ArtLab Fellowship is to give practicing artists the same Fellowship experience they would have as Loeb Fellows, with the added benefit of being granted studio space in the ArtLab building, research support and networking resources through the ArtLab community, as well as potential funding for proposed programs and/or projects over the course of the year.

Award: Academic-year fellowship; stipend; housing in Cambridge; and tuition-free auditing of classes at Harvard & MIT.

Eligibility: Mid-career professionals with 5-10 years of experience (minimum). The Fellowship is for practitioners. It is not a sabbatical program or an artist residency.

Deadline: Jan. 5, 2022

External Grant Landscape Architecture

David R. Coffin Publication Grant

Deadline: December 1, 2021 12:00 am

Source: Foundation for Landscape Studies

Description: Awarded to an author or publisher of a book-in-progress on a landscape subject. Book must be based on original research and break new ground in method or interpretation.

Award: Unspecified

Eligibility: Authors, publishers, and translators eligible to apply. Authors/translators must have signed contract w/publisher.

Deadline: Dec. 1

Architecture External Fellowship

Steedman Fellowship

Deadline: November 15, 2021 9:59 pm

Source: Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; AIA St. Louis

Description: Award is granted biannually to an emerging architect to support 6-12 months of international travel for architectural research. The 2021 Theme is Disruption. We are living in disruptive times…defined by climate crisis driving unprecedented current and future weather extremes and an ongoing global pandemic, alongside centuries of systemic racism in stark need of addressing. Radical solutions are required at all scales and systems. How does Architecture–in all its modalities–disrupt and drive change? How can architecture have a measurable impact? What are the disruptions to define the next decade? And will they redefine design? The Steedman is an award that fosters international research in architecture through investigations outside of one’s home country. In light of the COVID-19 and climate crises, extra consideration will be given to creative proposals that minimize carbon footprint. See website for more info.

Award: $75,000 award to support 6-12 months of international travel for architectural research

Eligibility: Open to anyone, anywhere in the world, who has received an accredited degree in architecture within the last eight years. Fellows must be able to complete their proposed projects within 18 months of receiving the award. Additionally, at the conclusion of their fellowship, Fellows must make arrangements to share their research with the Washington University and local AIA architectural communities.

Deadline: 11:59 pm CST, Nov. 15, 2021