Young Investigator Development Grants Program

The Young Investigator Development Grants Program is intended to provide development funds to support new and continuing research on poverty by young academics in the social and behavioral sciences. The program offers seed funds for the support of research time or resources in the hope that the projects will develop into more full-fledged research paradigms and thus a new corps of young poverty scholars with an expertise on the South. Another goal of this competition is to offer mentoring and networking opportunities to young poverty scholars, and to this end, award winners are expected to attend the annual UKCPR Small Grants Conference on the University of Kentucky Campus.

2011 Request for Proposals

UKCPR is now accepting proposals for 2011 program year competition. View full RFP.

2010 Young Investigator Grant Winners

Jenifer Bratter, assistant professor of sociology, Rice University. Project: What about these children? Assessing poverty among the hidden population of mixed-race children in single-parent families.

Mark Leach, assistant professor of rural sociology and demography, Pennsylvania State University. Project: Migration networks, household structure, and child poverty: An investigation of poverty among the children of Mexican migrants.

Elizabeth Rigby, assistant professor of political science, University of Houston. Project: Anti-poverty policy in the South: How race- and class-based political dynamics interact to limit redistribution.

Christopher Wildeman, assistant professor of sociology, Yale University. Project: Imprisonment and population health, 1960-2005.