Sponsor: UBC’s Hampton Fund
Sponsor program link: http://www.ors.ubc.ca/node/904
Value: Individual projects: $10-$25K; Interdisciplinary projects: $10-$35K
Objectives: Hampton Fund Research Grants are designed to fund highly meritorious research or scholarly activity that is short-term and that forms a new direction in the research career of the investigator(s). The Fund especially encourages research that is interdisciplinary or that offers other theoretical, methodological, or empirical innovation. The Fund also encourages applications from new scholars seeking to establish their initial research programs. Interdisciplinary projects, including those that integrate the Humanities and Social Sciences with the Natural, Applied, or Health Sciences, will be considered, although only the humanities and social sciences component can be funded under this program.
Grants for the Creative and Performing Arts will also be awarded to support innovative, integrative and/or critically grounded production, reinterpretation or performances of creative works. This might include the development or completion of existing original works for performances, exhibition or publication with particular emphasis on new approaches to presentation or representation. It is the intention of the Hampton Committee to approach the awarding of these grants in a flexible manner, to recognize experimental and unique approaches.
Hampton Fund grants are not intended to replace those already available from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), other external granting sources or from the internal grant programs funded by the SSHRC Institutional Grant (formerly known as the HSS Internal Grants Programs). Hampton Fund grants are not to be used as supplementary funding for already funded research projects. The grants are meant for research projects that will enable the investigator(s) to establish a research record in a new area, enabling future external funding possibilities. Thus, proposals should detail how the Hampton funded project will form the basis for future applications to provincial, national, and international funding agencies.
Participation by graduate and undergraduate students in the proposed research is strongly encouraged, but their research responsibilities should be clearly explained.
Application Deadline(s):
For Non-KIN Faculty:
February 13: OGPR deadline for substantive proposal review (optional). Email full application to Robert Olaj Proposals submitted after this date will only receive a cursory review, as time permits.
February 27, Noon: OGPR deadline for Faculty-level (Beth Haverkamp’s) signature. Please email your full application to Robert Olaj. The signature page (containing Applicant, Co-Applicant and Department Head signatures) may be delivered in hard copy to Robert or scanned and emailed to him with the rest of the application.
February 28: The Hampton deadline. Robert Olaj will scan all applications submitted to the OGPR and email them to the Hampton Coordinator by 4:00 PM on the 28th.
For KIN Faculty:
February 13: OGPR deadline for substantive proposal review (optional). Email full application to Robert Olaj Proposals submitted after this date will only receive a cursory review, as time permits.
February 27, Noon: KIN deadline for the Director’s (Bob Sparks) signature. Please deliver original hard copy of the full application to the KIN main administrative office in the War Memorial Gym by 12 Noon.
February 28: The Hampton deadline. Kathy Manson in the main KIN administrative office will scan all applications submitted to KIN and email them to the Hampton Coordinator by 4:00 PM on the 28th.
Special notes: Please read the eligibility criteria carefully – they are very specific.