Funder: Harvard University
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Graduate research grants: up to $3,000; graduate travel grants: up to $1,000
Summary: IQSS supports affiliated faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates through opportunities advancing social science research.
Key Information: Graduate research grant applicants must be Harvard doctoral students affiliated with IQSS and not graduating that year.
Description
Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS) offers a collection of funding opportunities supporting the research efforts of affiliated faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. These opportunities share the goal of advancing the frontiers of social science knowledge, with support ranging from dissertation research and conference travel to faculty research initiatives and undergraduate research experience.
Graduate research grants support ongoing or future dissertation activities, while travel grants help doctoral students present research at relevant professional conferences. Other opportunities include Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence, which supports Harvard faculty pursuing research that challenges the scientific community’s dominant position, and the Mindich Encounters with Authors series for presenting major works in progress.
