Xlab Research Grant Application

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Xlab Grants make financial support available to UC Berkeley graduate students engaged in dissertation research and to UC Berkeley post-doc and junior faculty who are interested in conducting experiments as part of their research program.

Decisions are made by the Director of Xlab. Funding decisions may favor first-time applicants and seek to encourage good research practices, including pre-registration, posting data, and posting research materials. Grant funding expires one year after the award date.

Grants are made possible by the support of the Dean of the Haas School of Business.

Eligibility:

• Priority will go to UC Berkeley investigators, particularly early career scholars such as graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, or junior faculty. Recent UC Berkeley alumni, more senior faculty, undergraduate students, and Berkeley-affiliated community members (e.g., lab managers) can also apply for grants that will be considered on an exceptional basis.
• Must have an idea promising enough to justify the proposed budget.

Major Steps for Applying for Xlab Grants

1. Complete the Xlab Grant Application Form, a 3-5 page report (see Phase 1 instructions below), and a letter from your Faculty Advisor if needed.
2. Send to Juliana Schroeder by e-mail at jschroeder@haas.berkeley.edu with a cc to xtech@haas.berkeley.edu
3. Xlab evaluates the grant proposal and sends you feedback, which may include an award of money for part or all of what you requested.
4. You spend the money.
5. Send Juliana Schroeder the results (e.g. working/published papers).

Application Instructions for Grant:

• Complete the Xlab Grant Application Form
• Write a brief report (no more than 5 pages total) covering the:
  1. Purpose and background of the study
  2. Related literature
  3. Experimental design and procedures
  4. Research question(s)
  5. Proposed analysis
  6. Plans for pre-registration and for public posting of research materials and data
  7. References
  8. Budget
• Graduate students only:
  include a letter of support (Please address to the Xlab Faculty Director) from your Faculty Advisor --1 page or less, indicating whether he/she supports your request as essential and whether he/she feels you have adequately explored other possible funding sources.
• Send complete application package to: Juliana Schroeder, jschroeder@haas.berkeley.edu

Policies for Applying for Xlab Grants:

1. Grant proposals can be submitted for any amount of money. Grant proposals for more than $4,000 will receive particular scrutiny.
2. Your proposed research does not need to use the Xlab participant pool, but priority will be given to research that uses the Xlab pool.
3. Grant proposals will be evaluated by the Xlab Director (Juliana Schroeder) as well as a faculty reviewer (examples of prior reviewers include Don Moore and Laura Kray). You will receive brief feedback about your grant proposal.
4. Please adhere to open science best practices in your research (see https://www.cos.io/ for a review of best practices).

Requirements if You Receive an Xlab Grant:

1. Provide a write-up of the Methods and Results within one year of receiving the funds.
2. Submit the working paper to us when it is ready to post on the Xlab website. You can wait until the paper is under review before posting it.
3. Use open science best practices to the extent possible (e.g., posting data, surveys on OSF, preregistering) in the research that the Xlab funds.
4. Be willing to present this work at the annual Xlab conference.