The Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain SIG grant aims to support early career investigators and partners of the SIG to provide additional resources to enhance career development and work in the priority areas of the SIG.
Priority areas
- Support seed funding to research projects in advancing sex, gender and racial disparities in pain care.
- Support early career investigators to develop and strengthen meaningful relationships and research collaborations with local communities (Indigenous and Culturally and linguistically diverse communities) and people with lived experience of pain, enabling research relevant to advancing sex, gender and racial disparities in pain care.
- Proof-of-concept experiment for future grant applications.
- Domestic travel for access to specialized equipment.
- Domestic travel to workshops/seminars for training e.g., leadership skills, professional skills, or commercialization.
- Travel and registration costs to attend domestic or international conferences.
Application guidelines
The application is limited to approximately 500 words and should:
- Provide details about the applicant, their supervisor/ mentor, career stage, and career plans.
- Provide a case for receiving the grant, particularly the impact on the applicant’s career development.
- Describe how the research will align with the priorities of Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain SIG.
- Indicate how the grant will be used, including a budget and justification for the grant amount sought.
- Include an up-to-date short CV (2 pages maximum, any format).
Eligibility
- Applicants who are trainees (undergraduate, Master’s, PhD, MD or equivalent), early career investigators within 5 years of completing their terminal degree, and/or community/patient partner.
- Applicant and/or their mentor/supervisor must be a member of the Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain SIG.
Funding details
- Up to $2000 USD per grant
- Up to 3 recipients:
- 1 undergraduate/medical/allied health student or community/patient partner
- 1 Master’s or PhD student
- 1 postdoctoral fellow or early career researcher (0-5 years post terminal degree)
- Funds must be spent by the end of December 2024
Reporting
The recipients will be required to submit a report on the outcome of the grant using a report template provided by the SIG.
The recipient will be invited to present on the work that the grant supported at a SIG webinar and/or pre-conference workshop.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE 21 APRIL 2024, 23:59 PDT
Send applications to the SIG Secretary, Dr. Katelynn Boerner. Please title your email “SGR SIG Grant Application” in the subject line so it does not get missed.