Call for Entries: Expense Support Grant Program

Whether you need support for travel, research collaboration, journal submissions, or other eligible expenses, the program is designed to help offset the costs associated with your project.

Focus Areas

• Liberalism, Pluralism, Democracy: Constitutionally constrained liberal democracies foster peace, freedom, and widespread prosperity. However, the rise of contemporary illiberal ideologies threatens democratic institutions, individual freedoms, and the prospects for peaceful pluralism. The Liberalism, Pluralism, and Democracy initiative aims to spark innovative ideas and solutions that uphold and fortify the norms and institutions that underlie the liberal project and promote widespread human flourishing.
• Speech and Intellectual Freedom: Freedoms of speech, expression, and intellectual inquiry drive innovation, the growth of knowledge, and social progress. The Speech and Intellectual Freedom initiative supports research examining new and increasingly complex challenges to these freedoms, including those presented by illiberal political movements, technological change, and contemporary threats to academic freedom.
• Equality, Peace, and Prosperity: Individual liberty, equality before the law, free enterprise, and voluntary cooperation, are essential to prosperous, peaceful, and flourishing societies that enable every person to pursue their full potential. The Equality, Peace, and Prosperity initiative supports research investigating the barriers that inhibit people from realizing their full potential, the underlying causes of violent conflict, and solutions to overcoming these challenges that advance human freedom.
• Business and the Good Society: In addition to driving material well-being, entrepreneurs and businesses can foster trust, cooperation, personal growth, and moral development among business owners, employees, suppliers, and customers. The Business and the Good Society initiative supports research exploring the factors that promote commerce’s role in contributing to widespread human flourishing (within and beyond the economic realm), and factors that inhibit these effects.

Funding Information

• The Hayek Fund offers grants ranging from $500 to $5,000, with the potential for higher awards for exceptional projects.

Eligible Expenses

• Travel for conference presentations and archival research
• Research collaboration and hiring a research assistant
• Journal submission fees
• Purchase of data sets
• Book publication expenses (e.g. copy editing, indexing)

Ineligible Expenses

• PhD application fees
• Living expenses (e.g. rent)
• Hardware costs (e.g. laptops, printers)
• Tuition expenses
• Retroactive expenses
• Conference travel without giving a presentation
• Institutional overhead or indirect costs

Eligibility Criteria

• This funding opportunity is open to graduate students and faculty conducting research within the liberal tradition at an accredited college or university.
• Preference will be given to research directly tied to IHS areas of focus, to projects that outline specific publishing goals, and to applicants from top research institutions.

For more information, visit Institute for Humane Studies.