COVID-19 Rapid Publication Working Groups: PWIAS Funding Opportunity

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) has launched a call for applications to fund new working groups to produce rapid publications in relation to COVID-19. The publications will be published on the PWIAS website prior to being submitted to academic journals, and will aim to influence policy decisions in different areas of society and levels of government. Applications must take an innovative, unconventional approach to understanding and addressing the challenges posed by COVID-19 and society’s response to it. We seek projects proposing to do interdisciplinary work that is not fundable by other sources and that aims to develop new conceptual approaches and recommendations drawing on knowledge from multiple disciplines, including Economics, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Data Science, Epidemiology, Public Policy, Ethics, Humanities, and Law.

Successful applicants will receive up to $10,000 per project. Working group members can include international scholars and non-academic participants, and must include at least one UBC faculty member who will be responsible for administering the award.

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