Below are the guidelines for the DRRC Grant Program. If you are a Northwestern University faculty member, Ph.D. student or postdoctoral fellow and wish to be put on our mailing list for grant proposal forms, please email your request to DRRC@kellogg.northwestern.edu.
DRRC Research Grants Spring 2021 Cycle Due Date: April 1, 2021 11:59pm.
Note: there will be not a Fall 2020 cycle this year.
Download the grant cover sheet and review the requirements to begin the process.
Principal investigators MUST be affiliated with Northwestern University as a full-time faculty member, a graduate student or a postdoctoral fellow during the grant period. Co-investigators do not need to be affiliated with Northwestern University.
DRRC funds empirical research on conflict, broadly construed. We will consider application that examine inter group and intra group processes related to conflict and collaboration. We are open to a variety of methods: experimental, field, modeling, etc. The grants committee looks for several features in a proposal:
Funding is expected to range from $1,000 - $5,000. On average, we provide $2,500 per awarded grant.
What is likely to receive support:
What will not receive support:
Please submit your application via email to DRRC@kellogg.northwestern.edu.
The contents of your application should include:
Referee procedure:
After at least two reviewers evaluate each proposal, the grant committee meets to finalize the decision. Applicants receive a decision letter with substantive feedback soon after the committee has met (usually within 14 days of the submission date).
Andrea Dittman and Kyle Dobson |
“Promoting Positive Community-Police Interactions through Transparency.” |
Krishnan Nair |
“Ethnic Interests Underlie Variations in Political Orientation.” |
Chris To |
“Heirarchy Change Following Success.” |
Dylan Wiwad |
“Increased Cooperation and Decreased Prejudice: An Exploration of Cross-Class Contact.” |
Alice Zhang and Hui Sun |
“All the World's a Stage: Camera, Dehumanization and Violence in Social Movements.” |
Jordan Daley |
“Beyond Race: The Behavioral Implications of Skin Color.” |
Laura Garcia |
“The pacifying role of education: the case of Radio Sutatenza in Colombia.” |
Alexandra Garr-Schultz |
“Does Internal Coherence Reduce External Conflict?: How Identity Affects Intraminority Conflict versus Coalition.” |
Ivan Hernandez |
“The influence of concern about falling down the socioeconomic hierarchy on intergroup cognition and behavior.” |
Jeremy Kuperberg |
“Performing the Nation after War: Tourism and Memory in Croatia and Bosnia.” |
Marie Lapierre |
“Understanding Conflict and Violence in Intimate Relationships.” |
Kyle Nolla |
“The Gendered Context of Competitive Gaming Skill Acquisition.” |
Perdana Roswaldy |
“Years of Living Uncertainly: Peasant Women's Labor in the Aftermath of Agrarian Conflict.” |
Omri Tubi |
“Building a Strong Settler State: The Case of Israel.” |
Eli Finkel |
“The Struggling Family Metaphor: A Step toward Ameliorating America’s Toxic Political Partisanship?” |
Anna McKean |
“From Covert Action to Overt Activism: The Evolution of Corporate Political Involvement.” |
Safa Al-Saeedi |
"Communication as Power: Effects of the Internet on Authoritarian Politics." |
Erica Banks |
"Black Women and Prisoner Reentry: Understanding How Class Matters."s |
Yannik Coenders |
"Dispersal: How Cities in the West Abandoned Racial Segregation." |
Natalie Gallagher |
"Sociocultural Essentialism as a Cognitive Framework for Lay Theories of Diversity and Social Change." |
Jordan Gans-Morse |
"A Novel Dataset for Studying Business Conflicts in Russia." |
Meghan George |
"Promoting Intergroup Contact Through Anxiety Acceptance." |
Elizabeth Good |
"Nevertheless, She’s Excluded: Women’s role in resistance movements, peace agreements, and power." |
Jesse Humpal |
"Globalized Insurgency: Modern Revolutionaries and Their Pursuit of Power." |
Elinam Ladzepko |
"Can I do better? How White people’s beliefs about the malleability of implicit racial bias affects their intergroup attitudes and behaviors." |
Erik Lovell |
"Young Adults in Social Policy: Conflict in Ambiguity." |
Alyssa Lynne |
"Transnationalizing Gender, Medicine, and Standardization: Gender-Affirming Healthcare in Thailand and the United States." |
Josiah Rosario |
"Danger in the (Sociopolitical) Environment: A Macro-level Perspective on the Identity and Belonging of Students from Targeted Backgrounds." |
DRRC has longstanding partnerships with the International Academy of Conflict Management (IACM) and the Academy of Management (AOM), two organizations that convene faculty, Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellows to share their knowledge and research.
DRRC will be sponsoring the 2020 IACM Best Paper award. To learn more, please visit: https://iafcm.org/index.php/cfp/
DRRC pursues its mission in part through its research-funding program