UCF Research Assistance Grants

Overview

Background

This program provides funding for projects seeking $3,000 or less. The purpose is to fund projects that are small in scale, need seed-money or are short term. Funding priority is given to organizations and individuals with a record of sharing a mission consistent with core funding interests of the Urban Communication Foundation. The UCF provides support for innovative research projects that advance urban communication research and/or initiatives.

Mission

The mission of The Urban Communication Foundation is to:

* support through grants research that enhances society’s understanding of urban communication patterns;
* encourage through conferences and symposia collaboration between scholars, urban planners, and policymakers;
* promote through publications research strategies and
* recognize through awards and noteworthy scholarship that encourages and fuses urban practice and study.

Allowable expenses for funding may include:

* Stipends for research or creative assistants
* Stipends for human subjects to participate
* Research related expenses (e.g.copying fees)
* Survey related expenses
* Production related expenses (e.g. video editing, filming expenses )
* Fees for publication rights,
* Transcription, library fees, media (film, cds, paper, etc), printing and copying.
* In selected cases, equipment rentals may be funded although the UCF does not usually fund equipment-related expenses.
* Research related travel
* Training and staff development

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Since our launch in 2005, the Urban Communication Foundation has provided awards and grants to dozens of distinguished scholars, researchers, and journalists to recognize and support provocative work that contributes in significant ways to the discourse around urban communication issues.
* While most of our recipients hail from academia and journalism, we also encourage submissions from other practitioners whose work will lend new insights into the discipline, raise broader awareness of related socio-political, economic, and cultural concerns, or influence public policy.
* While most of our recipients hail from academia and journalism, we also encourage submissions from other practitioners whose work will lend new insights into the discipline, raise broader awareness of related socio-political, economic, and cultural concerns, or influence public policy, including:
* architects
* urban planners
* environmental psychologists
* geographers
* political and other social scientists
* philosophers and ethicists
* artists

Ineligibility

* Funds may not be used for the following:
* Equipment (e.g. desktop computers; laptops; computer tablets)
* Salary or for release time from teaching for the purpose of writing and research.
* Conference-related travel.
* Contributions to other organizations