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Graduate Student Fellowship

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Faculty Small Grant Program

Congratulations to our Graduate Student Fellowship and Faculty Small Grant Recipients for 2008-2009!

Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients

• Scott Byrd, School of Social Sciences

  Transnational movement gatherings and coalition work: Complex affiliations, framing strategies, and multi-organizational fields"

• Kelsy Kretschmer, School of Social Sciences

  Origins and trajectories of breakaway organizations

• Kathryn Quick, School of Social Ecology

  Questioning insider/outsider organizational boundaries: Examples from inclusive public management

• Karen Jeong Robinson, School of Social Sciences

  From discipline to choice: The reconstitution of the university student

• Laurent Tambayong, Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

  Strategic behaviors in entrepreneurial alliances: A simulated game-theoretic network model as a theoretical framework in explaining empirical findings

Faculty Small Grant Recipients

• Catherine Bolzendahl, School Social Sciences

  Unintended consequences or organizing differences? Legislatures and legislators 'doing gender' in Germany, Sweden and the United States

The Center for Organizational Research (COR) is pleased to offer small grants (up to $1500) and mini-grants (up to $750) to facilitate research on organizations.  COR supports a broad definition of research on organizations and welcomes proposals from members of any department or school.  Funds can be used for any expenses related to the research process (e.g., purchase of data sets, transcription and/or coding costs, purchase of equipment such as tape recorders, purchase of video tapes, research related travel costs, subject costs, copying expenses, computer software, etc.).  Funds may not be used for PI salary. 

Eligibility:  Graduate students and faculty at UCI who would like to undertake new research on organizations or extend existing research to relate it to organizations are eligible.  Students must have a supporting letter from a faculty member supervising their research. 

Deadline:  The application deadline for 2008 has passed.

Application Packets: Proposals should include the following:

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1. Completed cover sheet (downloaded from link at left)
2. Proposal narrative (3-page proposal narrative, including specific research questions and/or hypotheses related to research on organizations, expected contribution to our understanding of organizations, a project time line and list of literature cited.  Narrative should be in a font no smaller than 12 point, with 1-inch margins all around.)
3. Budget and justification.

Submission Procedure:  Proposals should be submitted electronically to COR@uci.edu.  Applicants should make sure they receive confirmation that the application has been received.

Recipients of COR grants have the following responsibilities to COR:

1. Thank COR for support in any written work that develops out of the research supported by the COR grant.
2. Provide COR with a 1-2 page research report within 60 days of the end of the funding period.   The report should include how the funding was used and what grant proposals have been written to extend this research.
3. Provide COR with an electronic copy of written work that develops out of the research supported by the COR grant for posting on the COR website;
4. Present research in a COR seminar or faculty workshop.

In some cases additional funds may be available for researchers who receive a COR Small Grant or Mini-grant and find that they require additional funds to complete the project.  Recipients may apply for a small grant extension (up to an additional $500) or a mini-grant extension (up to an additional $250) if the original funding has already been completely spent (not just committed).  Applications for extensions must be received by the deadline for proposals the year after they received their award. This deadline will be announced each year and will be posted on this website. The review committee will look most favorably upon extensions for projects for which an application has been submitted to an outside funding source.

For additional information, contact COR Co-directors: Martha Feldman (feldmanm@uci.edu or Calvin Morrill (calvin@uci.edu).