Engaged Research Grant
Forecasted
Engaged Research Grant supports scholar–community partnerships conducting collaborative anthropological research to advance knowledge, combat inequality, and help communities flourish.
Funder: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $25,000; nonrenewable, with no limit on project duration
Summary: Supports established scholar–community partnerships that advance anthropological knowledge, combat inequality, and help communities flourish.
Key Information: Community representatives must be core research partners, with documentary evidence of their commitment.
Description
The Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Engaged Research Grant supports longstanding partnerships that empower people historically treated as subjects of anthropological research rather than researchers themselves. Projects grow from established relationships between scholars and communities, giving community partners an active role in defining the problems explored and producing knowledge together. The program prioritizes research undertaken by or alongside people who have experienced marginalization.
Collaboration should extend from formulating research questions to gathering and analyzing evidence, sharing skills, communicating findings, and public mobilization. Research may take place in communities, courtrooms, government offices, laboratories, or other settings. The Foundation seeks findings that are meaningful and potentially transformative for participants and other stakeholders, while demonstrating how engagement can foster innovation and advance anthropological thought.
