Submission Deadline:

November 4, 2009

FULL CFP: http://www.crge.umd.edu/QRIG_CFP2009.pdf

The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and the Maryland Population Research Center are pleased to announce the fourth round of a seed grant program for faculty at University of Maryland engaged in research using qualitative research methods of participant-observation and in-depth interviews.

Assistant Professors have particularly high priority in the funding program but all faculty are eligible. The grant application must be for a study that primarily uses research methods of

participant-observation and/or in-depth interviewing (e.g., participant-observation of a specific group, two-hour interviews, or life histories). A study that is designed primarily as an analysis of historical documents, regrettably, is not included in the guidelines for this program. It is expected that a primary focus of the data collection is on understanding the meaning of events in the lives of study participants (i.e., an interpretative approach) rather than collecting data that measures the frequency of events (i.e., a survey approach).