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Residential research groups (RRGs) are teams of researchers, often unknown to each other before residency, who are assembled to work on a commonly-defined research agenda. They are composed of a range of UC faculty, UC postdoctoral scholars, UC doctoral students, and visiting scholars (including non-UC faculty), as resources allow. The organizing premise of the residential research program is that when the challenges of communicating across disciplines are surmounted, breakthroughs in knowledge are possible.
RRGs are developed through a two-stage process. First, UCHRI selects from the proposed RRG topics in consultation with its Advisory Committee. Once a topic is approved, UCHRI works with the faculty convener for the selected topic, inviting faculty, scholars, and students to apply to participate. Through a competitive review process, the UCHRI Advisory Committee, in consultation with the convener, selects RRG fellows based on their ability to contribute to the research agenda of the group. This competition is for RRGs during Fall 2021 or Spring 2022.
This year, UCHRI is particularly interested in research groups that approach humanistic problems broadly related to the theme of “Living Through Upheaval.” As you fashion your proposal, we invite you to consider how your lines of inquiry are shaped or informed by conditions of upheaval, instability, or turbulence. These forces could be external, bearing on the lives of the researchers involved, or they might be internal to the lived context(s) or sociological landscapes of the research subjects. UCHRI welcomes collaborative projects that put humanistic scholars in conversation with those from disciplines that are methodologically distinct in order to widen perspectives on the phenomena under investigation, thereby enhancing humanistic inquiry into the contours of lived chaos.
Given the ongoing disruptions caused by the covid-19 pandemic, applicants are encouraged to propose hybrid or alternative models for Residential Research Groups. While we hope that research residencies and in-person seminars will once again be possible by Fall 2021, faculty interested in planning a group would be well advised to envision scenarios where flexibility is required, and should articulate their visions for alternative group structures in their proposals.
Eligible Applicants: UC Ladder Rank Faculty
Maximum Award: Successful proposals that go on to become RRGs will include replacement costs to the faculty’s division, on-site offices at UCHRI, and furnished apartments for the duration of the residency. Faculty are ordinarily required to contribute sabbatical credits.
Application Deadline: Monday, November 30, 2020
Award Announced (Expected): February 2021
Funding Source: UCHRI/UCOP
Final awards for all of our grants are contingent upon available funding. Funding must be spent in accordance with all applicable UC rules and regulations.
Applications must be submitted online via Submittable by 11:59 PM (Pacific time) on the deadline date.