Call for Proposals: STEG Small Research Grants

Deadline Date: September 30, 2024

 Donor Name: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth

 Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

https://steg.cepr.org/call-for-proposals/eighth-call-proposals-steg-small-research-grants

The Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) is currently inviting applications to the eighth call for proposals for Small Research Grants (SRGs).

SRGs can fund research assistance, data collection and or purchase, and potentially research stipends teaching buyouts (if sufficiently justified). Grants also support travel to field sites, even when secondary data is utilized.

Themes

• Research may focus on broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for low- and middle-income countries, in a comparative sense across time or space, or more narrowly defined topics related to one or more of the following six research themes:
  • Data, measurement, and conceptual framing.
  • Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy.
  • Labor, home production, and structural transformation at the level of households.
  • Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps.
  • Trade and spatial frictions.
  • Political economy and public investment.
• STEG is also focused around three cross-cutting issues that are simultaneously relevant to many areas of structural transformation, including the six research themes:
  • Gender.
  • Climate change and the environment.
  • Inequality and inclusion.

Funding Information

• Small Research Grants (SRGs) of between £10,000 and £25,000 are their primary funding vehicle.
• An SRG is intended to be completed within 12 months.

Eligibility Criteria

• STEG welcomes applications to SRG call from researchers all over the world, and encourage applications that propose collaboration between researchers from lower- and higher-income countries.
• In view of the current political situation and the imposition of economic sanctions on various Russian entities by Western governments, they are not currently able to accept proposals for projects that include researchers or members of the research team who are based at Russian institutions.
• Principal investigators applying to SRG calls should currently have a PhD or be enrolled in a PhD programme. In exceptional circumstances, they will consider applications submitted by principal investigators who do not fit these criteria, however, they must be able to demonstrate a history of high-quality academic and or policy-relevant research. Although there are no formal qualification requirements for co-investigators, co-investigators on STEG-funded projects usually have a PhD or are enrolled in a PhD programme. The knowledge, expertise, and qualifications of the entire research team will be taken into account when evaluating the proposal.

For more information, visit Structural Transformation and Economic Growth .