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UC Pacific Rim Research Program (PRRP) 2013-2014

This program offers research grants to faculty and graduate students.

Application must be submitted to the UCLA Asia Institute for Campus Review. Do not submit to the PRRP website.

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For application guidelines, please see the Call for Proposals and Guidelines, available at http://pacrim.ucsc.edu

The Pacific Rim Research Program promotes the study of the Pacific Rim as a distinctive region. For the purposes of this Program, the term "Pacific Rim" encompasses all areas and nations that border the Pacific Ocean, including Southeast Asia and East Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and Pacific Latin America. The states and nations bordering the Pacific Ocean are densely linked by patterns of historical contact, geology, trade, investment, international agreements and conflicts, migration, environmental and disease vectors, and the incessant flow of ideas and cultural practices.

The Program places priority on research that is new, specific to the region, and collaborative-reaching across national boundaries and bridging academic disciplines. Proposals may come from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, public health, or some combination thereof. Research may focus on humans in relationship to the built or natural environment, transcultural and historical constructions of the human, human-nonhuman interactions, cultural geography, transnational migrations, economic expansion, regional agricultural development, environmental health and human disease, or other themes. Proposals should address questions that contribute to an understanding of the Pacific Rim region as a whole.

The Program offers three types of grants:  

FACULTY INITIATIVE GRANTS
This is a new thematically focused grant in the range of $30-50,000, which may be expended over a multi-year period. For the 2012-13 grant competition, the PRRP invites Faculty Initiative Grant applications on the topic “Responses to Crisis in the Pacific Rim.” The historical formation of the Pacific Rim region, and its rapid economic growth and dramatic rise over the past century, have not been peaceful. Political, social, and economic crises have occurred with some regularity in the region. More battle-related deaths have occurred in East Asia than in any other region since World War II. An arc of territory from southern Mexico through Bolivia has rarely known social stability in the past thirty years. Throughout the region, inter-state tensions are exacerbated by domestic social divisions and formidable social, health, and environmental problems. Today, the region is facing a new challenge in the global financial crisis emanating, ironically, from the developed core of the world financial system in the U.S. The Initiative Grants will fund research that explores the impact of crisis on the Pacific region, historically and in the contemporary moment. Proposals may address the social, economic, and political roots of past or present crises, their cultural ramifications, and their multiple effects. Crisis, which can have a long historical dimension, may take the form of a catalytic event that sets in motion or accelerates a sequence of political and economic events. Crisis causes a sudden change in external conditions that requires individuals, businesses and governments to quickly change behaviors and strategies. Social crisis may cause a breakdown of the controls that limit movement of population, regulate public health, and protect the environment and economy. States may intensify their technologies of control in order to clean up after a crisis, or avert the perceived danger of a crisis. Crisis may give rise to new cultural practices and modes of expression in literature, the arts, religion, and popular politics.

All Initiative Grant proposals must involve collaboration of scholars from more than one Pacific Rim nation or territory. and may include support of graduate students. Interdisciplinary collaborations and multi-campus participation will enhance the prospects for funding.

FACULTY RESEARCH/PLANNING GRANTS
Research Grants fund collaborative projects of varying sizes, up to a maximum of $25,000. Projects must involve collaborative research, or research planning and pilot research, with colleagues in at least one Pacific Rim nation or territory, and may include support of graduate students.

ADVANCED GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
Advanced Graduate Research Fellowships support graduate students for a year of dissertation research or its equivalent.
Students may apply for a maximum of $20,000 in funding for a year of research.

These applications are reviewed first by campus committees, then by the PRRP Executive Committee.  The UCLA campus deadline for proposals is December 7, 2012. Applications should be submitted via the UCLA Asia Institute online application.

Application requirements:

Faculty Grants

  • Project title (150 words max)
  • Narrative proposal (2000 words max)
  • PI's CV
  • Detailed Budget (in table form)
  • Budget narrative
  • Name and CV of collaborator(s)
  • Name of department fund manager
  • Other sources of funding (if applicable)
  • Appendices (optional)

Advanced Graduate Student Fellowships

  • Project title (150 words max)
  • Narrative proposal (2000 words max)
  • CV
  • Unofficial transcript
  • Detailed Budget (in table form)
  • Budget narrative
  • Other sources of funding (if applicable)
  • Appendices (optional)
  • References (up to 3)

 


Deadline: 12/7/2012

For more info please contact:
Elizabeth Leicester
(310) 825-0007
eleicester@international.ucla.edu

Asia Institute

Published: Wednesday, September 03, 2008