Grants and Funding Opportunities

CITRIS opportunities are many and varied. Ranging from private donations to the CITRIS Headquarters Building to deep engagements with CITRIS research projects, the levels of involvement present many opportunities to public and private organizations and individuals. The best way to assess these opportunities is to make direct contact with CITRIS leadership.

Please address all expressions of interest to the Director of CITRIS  

In the past, CITRIS has supported four master's level fellowships and four Ph.D. fellowships. The fellowships focused on research in the social sciences and other CITRIS related disciplines, i.e. Education, Law, Public Policy, Business, School of Information Management and Systems, City and Regional Planning. The fellowship competition was open to students on all four CITRIS affiliate campuses.

Below are a few examples of the kinds of research topics where involvement of social scientists is critical:

>> What are some of the risks associated with the technologies that CITRIS is developing, and how might they be mitigated?

>> What are the public policies and economic, legal, social, and cultural factors that may either slow or accelerate the deployment of CITRIS technologies?

>> How can the design of CITRIS technologies be enhanced by methodologies such as ethnography?

>> What other application areas should CITRIS consider, such as the use of IT to help empower and educate low-income individuals and communities?

>> What can we learn about the economic and social impact of technology from historical and comparative (e.g., other advanced industrial countries) case studies?

>> How should CITRIS technologies be evaluated?