IPEC Seed Research Grants
The Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture (IPEC) is inviting submissions for Seed Research Grants.
IPEC Seed Research Grants will be awarded to individuals and groups to conduct preliminary research that will lead to a larger external grant proposal. Proposals should be in the following research areas without any priority:
- Social Media and Society,
- Human Machine Culture,
- Justice and Security in Energy Transitions,
- Ethics in STEM, and
- Algorithmic Culture.
Evaluation criteria include:
- Potential for future/continuous external funding,
- Previous research experience and productivity,
- Scholarly merit of the proposed research project,
- Potential for extended/continuous research program, and
- Potential for future collaborative work.
Interested applicants shall submit the IPEC Seed Research Grant Application by Feb. 16, 2024. The maximum funding amount is $5,000 with an expected average of $2,500. All full-time faculty members are eligible to apply. Awardees are expected to submit a report upon completion of the project.
For further information, contact us at ipec@mtu.edu.
IPEC addresses the policy implications, ethical considerations and cultural significance of the massive changes and disruptive forces currently underway. By bringing policy, ethics and culture into the center of inquiry, IPEC creates collaborations on topics key to understanding technocultural change: issues such as algorithmic culture, medicine, biotechnology and ethics; technology and autonomy; surveillance and privacy; and reconfiguring human relationships in and with a changing environment.
IPEC brings together a diversity of knowledge holders — faculty, staff and community partners — to collaborate on and support research, policy, sharing and teaching that responds to the changing technological environment.