This year, the Office of Research launched two new funding programs designed to advance impactful scholarship and strengthen connections between research and community needs. Together, these programs provide up to $25,000 in support for faculty-led projects that foster innovation, collaboration, and meaningful outcomes. Learn more about these new opportunities and meet their inaugural awardees below.
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Catalytic Grant
The Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) Catalytic Grant program supports UC faculty, working individually or in teams, to advance high-impact scholarly and creative work. AHSS Catalytic Grants are intended to catalyze faculty progress toward discipline-valued outcomes, including awards, fellowships, publications, juried or invited creative works, selective external funding opportunities, and other external accolades.
Congratulations to the inaugural grantee!
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Anima Adjepong
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Documenting discriminatory profiling at the hands of Ghana police and immigration services
In Ghana, police and immigration services target individuals based on their gender expression, perceived class, and ethnic minority status. To date, there has been no systematic study documenting such abuses. This study documents instances of discriminatory profiling, and offers an analysis that lends itself to policy change and reparations.
Community-Engaged Research Grants
The Office of Research Community-Engaged Research Grants program supports UC faculty doing research in partnership with organizations or residents to collaboratively address locally identified priorities. These grants support pilot research that is co-developed and collaboratively implemented, while also advancing rigorous scholarly inquiry. The primary goal of the program is to strengthen community-academic partnerships and generate preliminary data that position teams to be competitive for external funding.
Congratulations to the inaugural grantees!
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Hayden Shelby
School of Planning
Colleger of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
Price Hill design project DIY urbanism pilot
This project aims to create a more vibrant neighborhood business district and opportunities for local youth along Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill through DIY urbanism. In collaboration with Price Hill Will, the Community Learning Center Institute, and UC student groups, the research team will engage local K-12 students in meaningful small-scale design interventions. In doing so, the project promotes participatory planning and a stronger sense of community that is reflected in the built environment.
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Katie Winters
Communication Sciences & Disorders
College of Allied Health Sciences
Refining psychosocial consequences and desired outcomes for early childhood stuttering intervention: a community-based participatory research study
Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disability for which 3-to-6-year-old children and their parents/caregivers face negative psychosocial consequences. This project refines psychosocial consequences and desired outcomes for early childhood stuttering reported by parents/caregivers, 3-to-6-year-old children who stutter, and speech-language pathologists. These refined concepts offer an immediate application to clinical practice and community programming and a long-term application to measurement development for new clinical assessments for early childhood stuttering.