Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science Initiative

Eligibility:

Must be a researcher (e.g., faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, graduate student) affiliated with a university or research institute. This funding opportunity is open to all, regardless of geographic location at the exception of researchers located in countries subject to US embargo.

Important dates:

Deadline for proposal, May 22nd–CLOSED

Proposal selection criteria:

• Successful proposals must be interdisciplinary and showcase more than one of the core disciplines of Cognitive Science (e.g., cannot be narrowly psychology or neuroscience in its focus)
• Proposals should maximize the impact of their work by making publicly accessible materials
• Proposals that describe a pathway for sustaining the activity beyond a single event will be prioritized
• Proposals must engage with groups that are under-represented in cognitive science. Underrepresented groups could be defined by, but are not limited to, disciplinary expertise, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability status, and geographic location such as rural areas or internationally under-represented areas, such as from countries under-represented in cognitive science
• Proposals should put forward initiatives that increase participation or retention of under-represented populations in Cognitive Science (at all levels of education)
• Originality of ideas is welcome but not required. In particular, this grant can be used to scale up a current program of yours
• We will consider a wide variety of initiatives
  • Your proposal could engage with students at any academic level and/or the general public, and/or groups nationally or internationally
  • Your proposal could also engage with your audience at your institution, a public venue, or meet your audience where they are located (e.g. rural communities)
  • Your proposal could engage your audience with cognitive science generally or could engage with them by getting them involved with cognitive science research
  • Your proposal could fund staff, travel, equipment/supplies, etc.
• Proposals can be for events occurring in the summer or during the school year but must be within one year of being awarded
• Winning projects will need to write an activities report within a year of being awarded and write a short blog post about the event for the CogSci blog

If you have any questions about this grant and/or how your ideas could fit it’s criteria, please contact the outreach coordinator at

2023 GRANT RECIPIENTs

Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science Initiative was created to support activities that will increase accessibility and inclusion of under-represented communities in Cognitive Science. Each of the winners will receive $5000 to fund their activities.

Launching Cognitive Science in Vietnam
K. David Harrison, Thuy Bui, Nidal Kamel, Daniel Ruelle, Jhon Sebastian Romero Meza, Hieu Pham
VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam
The proposal promotes interest and collaboration in Cognitive Science throughout Vietnam by bringing together researchers and students across 10 Vietnam universities through multiple activities including a public lecture, podcasts, networking event, and curriculum design workshop.

In Your Hands: Promoting Early Diverse Deaf Engagement in the Cognitive Sciences
Misa Suzuki, Bonnie Barrett, Wadha Alshammari, Marjorie Bates:, Phoenix Cook:, Michaela Okosi, Joseph Palagano, Masashi Tamura
Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., USA
The proposal promotes interest in Cognitive Science among deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students through the creation of multimodal (signed, spoken, English print) instructional materials, including publicly available YouTube videos, aimed at K-12 students.