Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar Program
Deadline: 8:59 AM ET on Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Award Amount: budgets individually determined

The Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists for collaboration in an interdisciplinary exploration of early-stage ideas. The program encourages intellectual risk taking as participants gather in an intensive seminar setting to explore new fields of research and inquiry. Exploratory seminars offer funding to support one- to two-day, by-invitation-only seminars for 12-16 participants at the Radcliffe Institute. The lead applicant must be either a Harvard ladder faculty member (tenured or tenure-track) from any school or a former or current Radcliffe fellow; co-applicants may apply with lead applicants who meet eligibility requirements.

The program welcomes proposals that:

• explore the viability of early-stage research ideas in any discipline or multiple disciplines
• invite the perspectives of diverse participants and stakeholders to the discussion
• integrate senior and junior scholars from institutions in the greater Boston area, across the United States, or around the world
• demonstrate risk taking and creativity

Radcliffe supports engaged scholarship and welcomes proposals that connect research to public policy, pressing social issues, and the active engagement of audiences beyond academia. Areas of special interest include climate change, with a particular interest in climate justice, and proposals that focus on women, gender, and society and/or draw on the Schlesinger Library’s rich collections and reflect Radcliffe’s unique history and institutional legacy.

Radcliffe will be hosting five virtual information sessions in the arts, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. If you are interested in attending one of the information sessions, please sign up here.

Review the 2022-2023 Exploratory Seminars here.