CSDE Small Grants Program

Research Seed Grant Application procedure:

Seed grant proposals should include the following parts:

  1. 1. Cover Sheet. Include the project title, name and rank of principal investigator(s), and contact information (including E-mail address). Provide a short abstract (250 words) and answer related research questions. Also provide signatures by the Chair of the PI’s home department and Dean’s Office. A separate application form for each Co-PI must be completed and signed by the Co-PI, Co-PI’s home department, and Deans Office. Please use this Cover Sheet.
  2. Description of Project (maximum of four pages)
    • A. Introduction: Describe the overall project, briefly summarize the pertinent literature, and show how the project will contribute to the literature.
    • B. Objectives: What is the project intended to accomplish, including specific products (e.g., papers, articles, grant proposals)?
    • C. Procedures: Describe and justify methods, including models and analyses proposed, hypotheses to be tested, data to be used, etc.
    • D. Time Schedule: Briefly provide a general time line of objectives to be accomplished.
    • E. Optional: Why is CSDE support needed? How is the project related to future extramural funding activities?
  3. Budget and budget justification (one page).
  4. Curriculum Vitae or Biosketches for key personnel (maximum of two pages each). List recent grant activity and recent major publications related to the proposed project.
  5. If this proposal, or a modified version of this proposal, is being submitted to another funding source (including UW sources such as Royalty Research Fund or CSSS) please explain the differences between proposals if they are distinct, or inform us that both proposals should not be funded simultaneously.

Reporting Requirements:

Seed grants: Within six months of grant completion, a draft application for extramural funding should be submitted to CSDE, and the PI should make a final report in the form of a presentation of results at the CSDE seminar.

Submission: Proposals are due on December 17, 2010. Submit proposals to Scott Sipes, CSDE, Box 353412.

Acknowledgment of support: Publications and conference materials must include an appropriate acknowledgment, such as "Funded by [or supported by] the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington."

Questions regarding the application procedure should be directed by emailing Mark Ellis, Director, or Sara Curran, Associate Director & Training Director, CSDE.