The UCLA School of Law Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program (“Program”) is currently seeking proposals for legal and non-legal empirical research projects whose purpose is to understand something that can be usefully applied to animal law and policy issues.
Donor Name: UCLA School of Law
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/31/2022
Grant Size: $1,000 to $4,500
Details:
The UCLA Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program (ALP SGP) seeks to promote the collection of sound empirical knowledge with which to build fact-driven, evidence-based animal law and policy reform for the benefit of nonhuman animals. They are interested in funding new, well-designed empirical research in a wide variety of fields (from behavioral economics to law to moral psychology).
The UCLA Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program (ALP SGP) has two primary goals:
- Fostering sound empirical—quantitative or qualitative—research to increase knowledge and understanding related to human uses of and impacts on all animals, alternatives to uses of animals, and humans’ relationship with animals, which animal law and policy academics, practitioners and organizations can use to develop animal law and policy reform applications.
- Supporting well-designed empirical—both qualitative and quantitative—research that enables animal law and policy academics, practitioners, and organizations to develop increasingly more sophisticated understandings of the impact of public policies and laws that affect animals directly or indirectly.
Funding Information
The UCLA ALP SGP anticipates funding approximately five to seven individual projects with a suggested total budget in the range of $1,000 to $4,500.
Eligibility Criteria
- Scholars and researchers in various subject matter areas who are interested in developing or expanding their research agenda (legal or non-legal) to include topics related to the UCLA ALP SGP’s goals are welcome to apply. Advanced-level graduate students are encouraged to apply but must have strong references from advisors who have reviewed the proposed project and attest to the validity of the research methodology the applicant proposes to use.
- Applicants must be affiliated with an accredited academic institution of higher learning in the United States.
- Grant recipients must be affiliated with such an academic institution at the time of receipt of funds and throughout the funded research period, through the completion and submission of the research and the attendant written report. Advanced graduate student grant applicants should include information on where they are in their degree process and indicate whether they anticipate finishing their degree within one year of the funding date.
- Please note: Principal investigators cannot be added to the research project after the proposal has been approved, without UCLA ALP SG written approval.
For more information, visit UCLA School of Law.
