Call for UC Graduate Student Fellowship Proposals
Undocumented immigrants and their citizen family members experience immigrant “illegality,” wherein inequalities are produced by immigration-related laws and policies. The UC Collaborative to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity (UC PromISE) aims to promote cutting-edge, policy-relevant research on the extent to which immigration policies have exacerbated vulnerabilities among undocumented students and expanded collateral consequences to citizen students with undocumented parents. To this end, UC PromISE is offering three graduate student fellowships of up to $7,000 each to support research on students who are undocumented and/or from mixed-status families; students are broadly defined at any education level and include those who have left or been pushed out of school.
Applicants must be doctoral students (at any level) at a University of California campus. Eligible projects include work from any discipline and may be collaborations. Preference will be given to projects that promote community-engaged and policy-relevant research, improve practice and policy, and uplift best practices to support student equity.
Fellows will be required to submit a working paper, a short brief (e.g. policy or practice report), and a publically-engaged piece (e.g. op-ed, webinar) that can be used for promoting findings. They will be provided resources and assigned a mentor who will support the development of these deliverables. Fellows will also be expected to present their papers at one of the Collaborative’s conferences in Summer or Fall 2020.
Applicants can request up to $7,000. Award funds may be used for research-related expenses (e.g. participant compensation, transcription, data access, research-related travel), project-related conference travel, or as a fellowship stipend. If used as a fellowship stipend, applicants are encouraged to secure matching funds from their home campus to provide tuition/fee remission during the fellowship and/or supplement the fellowship stipend. Awardees must meet all home university eligibility requirements for fellowship funding at the time of the award disbursement.
Applications should be submitted online at http://bit.ly/UCPromISEgradfellow as a single PDF file that includes: 1) the attached application form; 2) the attached budget and budget justification form; 3) a 4-page double-spaced project narrative that includes a project description, explanation of academic significance and connections to policy and/or practice, summary of research activities/methods, and a timeline; and 4) the applicant’s CV. The applicant’s advisor should email a letter of recommendation separately to laura.enriquez@uci.edu. Applications and letters HAVE NOT YET OPENED. Please check back for more information on the next application cycle.
UC Promise is a project hosted at UC Irvine in coordination with UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Merced, and UC Riverside. Funding is provided by the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Laura E. Enriquez at laura.enriquez@uci.edu
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