Grant Descriptions

Dissertation Fellowships

The Center’s Dissertation Fellowships support outstanding doctoral students from any discipline at the University of Washington whose dissertations address poverty, poverty-related issues, and anti-poverty policy in the U.S. Recipients receive one quarter of support at the doctoral Graduate Research Assistant level and a tuition waiver.

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Emerging Scholars Small Grants

The Center’s Emerging Poverty Scholars Small Grants Program is intended to encourage newer faculty at the University of Washington to focus on poverty issues; to increase the diversity of scholars engaged in poverty research; create networks at UW and link new scholars to the larger west coast poverty research network; to provide opportunities for mentorship by senior faculty; and provide opportunities for leadership in the Center. Recipients are expected to produce at least one publishable paper relating to the Center’s priorities and annual themes which will be posted on the Center’s website. We will also work with grant recipients to create research briefs that translate key findings into accessible language for nonacademic audiences.

The grants, of up to $15,000, support University of Washington faculty in early stages of their career whose work addresses the causes and consequences of poverty and/or policy responses to it. Of special interest are proposals that are regionally-focused on the west coast states and nationally significant in their implications.

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Western Poverty & Policy Small Grants

To advance knowledge about poverty within the context of the west coast region, the Center sponsors a small grants program that distributes awards of up to $15,000 on a competitive basis for new research efforts and pilot projects that address issues of poverty and public policy on the west coast. The goal of the small grants program is to advance, synthesize and disseminate best research on thematic issues; identify and build a network among poverty researchers on the west coast; identify and encourage younger scholars in the west coast region; increase visibility of poverty issues and research; and link research to policy. Each funded researcher or team is expected to produce at least one publishable paper relating to the Center’s broad research priorities and annual substantive theme. Where appropriate, papers will presented at the Poverty Center’s year three conference on West Coast Poverty and Policy.

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