IRWG Funding Opportunities
IRWG offers internal grants and funding opportunities for faculty and graduate student scholarship, research collaborations, or creative activities that focus on women, gender, or sexuality. IRWG does not have funding opportunities for undergraduate students.
Funding
Support for affiliate-initiated events, such as seminars and conferences is available through IRWG Incubators (formerly known as faculty led programs) and event cosponsorship.
Search for upcoming IRWG funding opportunities in the block below. Applications for IRWG grants are processed through our InfoReady portal. View available funding applications here.
We also offer research development, grantwriting assistance, and pre- and post-award services to U-M faculty seeking extramural funding. Learn more about IRWG’s faculty research support services.
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IRWG Faculty Seed Grant: Open Topic
The IRWG Faculty Seed Grant program, established in 1996, supports disciplinary and interdisciplinary faculty projects on women, gender, and sexuality. Support may be requested for individual activities, such as research assistance, research-related travel, or research materials. We also support collaborative projects, such as pilot studies or initial research efforts. While providing funds for new and…
Feminist Research Pathway Grant
IRWG’s Feminist Research Pathway Grant is aimed at helping to disseminate completed research to a wider audience. Unlike a Faculty Seed Grant or IRWG Incubator, the Feminist Research Pathway Grant does not fund ongoing research, but rather aims to publicize or promote findings, conclusions, and recommendations generated by research. In particular, we want to support…
Faculty Affiliates
IRWG affiliates make up a core group we look to for creating collaborations, meeting like-minded scholars, and participating in planning sessions and brainstorming lunches in order to build ambitious research projects. Affiliates will be listed on the IRWG website to facilitate networking, to strengthen our connections across campus and across disciplines, and to make us…
Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability
The Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability supports projects investigating how living with any type of disability influences access to, and participation in, physical activity and sport. Top funding priorities are projects that have real-world application in public health and/or clinic-based settings. This award accepts proposals that address any type of…
Visiting Scholars Program
Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers from other institutions around the nation and the world, whose work focuses on women or gender may aqcuire a guest appointment at IRWG for up to one academic year, without funding. Visiting scholars are generally on sabbatical from their home institutions (that is, the title is not designed for…
Event Cosponsorship
IRWG provides limited financial support to other University of Michigan departments who are organizing one-time events, such as lectures, symposia, performances or exhibits that directly relate to research on women, gender and/or sexuality. As a co-sponsor or financial supporter, IRWG provides funding and cross-promotion for events. Event planning labor (e.g., venue rental, speaker travel) is…
IRWG Incubators
IRWG Incubators invigorate and extend interdisciplinary connections and research agendas around women, gender, or sexuality. IRWG Incubators (formerly called “Faculty Led Programs”) provide structure for a focused, collective examination of a particular area or topic related to women, gender, and/or sexuality. Priority will be given to proposals that gather faculty together around a previously underfunded…
IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars
The Community of Scholars (COS) is a two-month summer fellowship and the only feminist dissertation-writing workshop at the University of Michigan. It supports graduate students enrolled in any Rackham program on the Ann Arbor campus who are conducting scholarly or creative work related to women, gender, or sexuality. COS fellows participate in a weekly seminar…
Boyd Williams Dissertation Grant for Research on Women and Work
The Boyd/Williams fellowship is awarded to a U-M doctoral student writing a dissertation related to women and work. Through this award, IRWG seeks to support projects that promote knowledge about and enhance understanding of the complexities of women’s roles in relation to their paid and unpaid labor (e.g., philanthropy, volunteerism, community involvement, domestic work, and…