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Grant Development Support

Application for Grant Proposal Development Support

The Department of Political Science welcomes applicants from among its faculty for summer support [up to $10,000 (with the potential for an additional $5,000 if deemed absolutely necessary for the research) dependent on funds availability] designed to facilitate the creation and submission of applications for substantial external grants related to Socio-Political Analysis and AI proposal themes.

Submissions will be evaluated by a committee of faculty members (who are not among the applicants) selected by the chair. Review of proposals will be anonymous as to submitter. 

Application

Faculty members seeking support should submit a one-page statement by midnight on March 21, 2025 that includes the following information:

  • A title
  • A description of the research purpose and intellectual merit of the funding proposal.
  • A discussion of the funding sources to which application will be made, the scale of funding that will be sought, and purposes for which the funding will be used.
  • A discussion of the relationship between the funding proposal and the goals of the Socio-Political Analysis and AI Good-to-Great grant. The text of the funded GTG grant is available on the Political Science GTG web page.
  • Please list any other support you have received via the GTG initiative

Evaluation Criteria

Proposals will be evaluated competitively. The crucial criteria for evaluation include:

  • The intellectual merit of the proposed research.
  • The degree of fit to Sociopolitical Analysis and AI grant goals.
  • The scale of the grant proposal and/or the likelihood that funding will be successful.

Additional desiderata (but not requirements) include the following:

  • Applications from faculty who have to date not had a strong history of making substantial external grant applications.
  • Grant funding applications that include support for graduate student and/or post-doctoral collaborators.
  • Not having previously received support for grant development from the GTG initiative.

Please submit your proposal to Becca Martin (martin.62@osu.edu).