Digital Studies Project Grants Application

The Digital Studies Center is pleased to announce the 2015-2016 academic year funding cycle for Digital Studies Project Grants. The Project Grant program is an initiative of the DSC to support digital studies projects on the Camden campus. Project Grants are intended to encourage faculty and staff to pilot, continue, or complete a project using digital technologies or investigating the impact of digital technology on the world.

  • Projects can include, but are not limited to:
  • Electronic Literature
  • Video games, interactive design, and expressive media
  • Using digital tools in your existing research
  • Text analysis and data-mining techniques
  • Data visualization techniques
  • Geographic Information Systems projects
  • Examining emerging multimedia and multi-modal technologies in the humanities
  • Development of new digital tools for analyzing and making available digital resources
  • New digital models of publication and dissemination of scholarship

Eligibility: Applicants must be a full or part-time faculty member, staff member, or student at Rutgers University-Camden.

Awards:  Grants of up to $2,000 will be awarded based on:

  • Projects that clearly demonstrate the expressive and analytical potentials of digital technology
  • Projects that articulate a feasible timeline for completion and implementation using the requested funds and within the funding cycle
  • Projects that will be a resource to scholars of digital studies both at Rutgers-Camden and beyondAwards are for costs associated with conducting research, purchasing technology, and technology support services. Funding may not be used to pay faculty salary or for a course buyout. In order to support as many Digital Studies Project Grant proposals as possible, some proposals may be partially funded.

Expectations:  Awardees are required to submit a full report in Spring 2016. Successful applicants will present their project as a lecture or workshop hosted by the Digital Studies Center.