Social & Behavior Sciences Research Institute Services

The SBS Research Institute can help you to:

Receive funding for pilot research
SBSRI offers a suite of grants to enable faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences to carry out small research projects and to develop proposals to outside funding agencies.

Keep up-to-date on developments in funding availability
A weekly funding newsletter, the SBSRI Funding Alerts, is available via listserv. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to cstrausf@u.arizona.edu or subscribe yourself by sending the message 'sub SBSRI Funding Alerts Your Name' to listserv@listserv.arizona.edu . Back issues may also be searched online in the listserv archives.

Identify potential sponsors
Make an appointment (Camilla Strausfeld, cstrausf@u.arizona.edu) for a personalized, online computer search of national funding databases to find funding opportunities in your field or run your own search from our web site. We also provide specialized lists, such as sabbatical opportunities, on request, and links from our web site to sources of internal and external funding programs.

Develop your proposal
We can read, edit, and provide feedback on draft proposals to external agencies submitted to the SBSRI at least one month before the proposal deadline. If you need general information about funding programs, we will be glad to make inquiries for you and provide the name and contact information for your program officer for more specific information.

Obtain computer support for instruction and research
SBSRI operates two computer labs, the Instructional Computing Lab (ICL) and the Data and Software Lab (DASL). Both labs have wireless access points so that users with mobile computers and wireless networking capability can come to either lab and connect to the Internet immediately without having to plug in a data cable.