Funding

Funding

group photo of Feminist Research Seminar participants

IRWG offers a variety of internal grants and funding opportunities for faculty and graduate student scholarship, research collaborations, or creative activities that focus on women, gender, or sexuality.

Support for faculty-initiated events, such as speakers and conferences is available through our faculty led programs and event cosponsorship.

Search for upcoming IRWG funding opportunities in the block below.

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.

IRWG Funding Opportunities

Faculty Led Programs	Programs provide ongoing activities and events on a specific theme related to women, gender, and/or sexuality.
Feminist Research Seminar	National call for small, themed residential conferences to be held in spring/summer in Ann Arbor. Seminars are proposed and designed by interested applicants, bringing together 10 feminist scholars to address quandaries in theoretical or empirical research related to gender, women and sexuality.
Joan Schafer Research Faculty Award in Sport, Fitness, and Disability	U-M faculty research awards up to $5,000 to support projects investigating how living with a physical challenge influences access to and participation in sport and physical activity.
Visiting Scholars Program	Guest appointment for faculty, postdoctoral scholars and researchers to reside at IRWG for up to one year, without funding.
Faculty Seed Grants	Grant award for U-M faculty research projects addressing women, gender and sexuality.
Boyd Williams Dissertation Grant for Research on Women and Work	Grant award for U-M doctoral students writing a dissertation related to women and work.
IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars	Summer fellowship program for U-M graduate students engaged in scholarly research or other creative projects focusing on women, gender or sexuality.
Event Cosponsorship	Financial support for research-related events hosted by other U-M departments that directly relate to scholarship on women, gender and/or sexuality.
Reading or Writing Groups	Meeting space and administrative support for ongoing study groups of U-M faculty and graduate students engaged in gender scholarship.
Sisters Fund for Global Health	Grants of $500-$10,000 for U-M faculty projects addressing global health issues related to women and gender.

IRWG Funding Opportunities

Programs provide ongoing activities and events on a specific theme related to women, gender, and/or sexuality.

National call for small, themed residential conferences to be held in spring/summer in Ann Arbor. Seminars are proposed and designed by interested applicants, bringing together 10 feminist scholars to address quandaries in theoretical or empirical research related to gender, women and sexuality.

U-M faculty research awards up to $5,000 to support projects investigating how living with a physical challenge influences access to and participation in sport and physical activity.

Guest appointment for faculty, postdoctoral scholars and researchers to reside at IRWG for up to one year, without funding.

Grant award for U-M faculty research projects addressing women, gender and sexuality.

Grant award for U-M doctoral students writing a dissertation related to women and work.

Summer fellowship program for U-M graduate students engaged in scholarly research or other creative projects focusing on women, gender or sexuality.

Financial support for research-related events hosted by other U-M departments that directly relate to scholarship on women, gender and/or sexuality.

Meeting space and administrative support for ongoing study groups of U-M faculty and graduate students engaged in gender scholarship.

Grants of $500-$10,000 for U-M faculty projects addressing global health issues related to women and gender.

Don't miss a funding opportunity!