CALL FOR PROPOSALS - APLS Research Grants - now closed for 2023
We are calling for proposals from researchers across disciplines and ranks (graduate student to full professor) for the Association for Politics and Life Sciences (APLS) research grants. APLS will fund up to $4,000 USD of data collection expenses for up to two proposals. Proposals and funded projects will be double-blind peer reviewed. Funded manuscripts that successfully complete the full peer-review process will be published in the association’s journal, Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS), which is published by Cambridge University Press.
Our aim is to publish novel research ideas that are executed with strict adherence to principles of reproducible research. As such, all funded projects will be registered reports. Following best practices for peer review and registered reports, the final publication decisions will be independent of the awarded grant and study results. Funded projects must be pre-registered and all study materials, including data, must be made public upon publication of the manuscript. Topics must fall within the scope of the journal: the relationship between biological mechanisms, broadly construed, and political behaviour and institutions. For more details on scope, see the current and past issues of PLS at https://cambridge.org/pls. Within that broad scope, though, we encourage pertinent research on health and politics, criminal justice and the criminal justice system, new methods for the study of life sciences-political phenomena, and evolutionary approaches to political phenomena.
Interested scholars should submit 2,000-word BLINDED proposals to the journal's ScholarOne portal by May 8th, 2024. The proposals should include:
1. a brief literature review identifying research question(s) and hypotheses;
2. a research design, complete with how the data would be collected and sampling method
with statistical power tests based upon extant studies where applicable;
3. a timeline for the data collection and analysis;
4. a proposed budget (including any matching funds); and
5. a separately attached unblinded title and author page.
After the initial application stage, the successful applicants will be required to submit a completed registered report, which will be anonymously reviewed to determine final funding decisions. The registered reports must be pre-registered at the Open Science Framework to receive funding. By accepting funding, the researchers are obligating themselves to carry out the proposed research, deliver a publishable manuscript based on the funded research and following the preregistration, and make the data and research materials (i.e., all survey materials, lab materials, statistical application code) publicly available at the Open Science Framework or comparable publicly accessible data repository. The data and replication code will be made public upon publication of the manuscript.
Submit your paper to: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.c...
Please note in a cover letter that your submission is for an APLS Research Grant.
Timeline
• March 8th, 2024 – Call for proposals.
• May 8th, 2024 – 2,000-word proposals due; anonymized editorial review commences.
• June 28th, 2024 – Review process concludes; Acceptance/rejection letters issued.
• Sept 22nd, 2024 – Full registered reports are due; anonymized peer review begins.
• Dec 2024 – Accepted registered report authors will receive $4,000; data
collection commences.
• May 31st, 2025 – Final manuscripts and results are due to PLS Editor.
Proposal Review Committee:
Gregg Murray (Committee Chair, Editor of PLS), Augusta University
Amanda Friesen, Western University
Aaron Weinschenk, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Benajmin Ruisch, University of Kent
Gijs Schumacher, University of Amsterdam
Seyoung Jung, L'Université du Québec à Montréal
Questions about the APLS Research Grants should be directed to Dr. Gregg Murray, Editor-in-Chief of PLS, at pls@cambridge.org.