Interdisciplinary Research Grants Program
Children and Screens’ Interdisciplinary Research Grants Program provides funding, on a competitive basis, to support cutting-edge scientific research projects that advance our knowledge and understanding of digital media and child development. These research grants are intended to deliver preliminary funds to interdisciplinary, interinstitutional research teams so that they may gain the results necessary to apply and compete for major funding from traditional funding sources.
Current Funding
2023 Call for Proposals: Infants and Screens
Children and Screens is pleased to issue a request for proposals to advance our understanding of critical questions behind the science of early screen usage—including but not limited to: What role do screens play in promoting or hampering young children’s cognitive, social, physical and emotional development? How are those effects mediated by content and differential susceptibilities of children? How does the intercalation of screens into everyday life affect early relational health? Studies can be laboratory or field-based but must focus on children 0-12 months of age and take an interdisciplinary approach meaning that investigators should come from at least 2 different disciplines. Download the full call for details.
Download the Call for Proposals
Deadlines
LETTER OF INTENT - May 5, 2023, 5 pm ET
FULL PROPOSAL - August 25, 2023, 5 pm ET
Details coming soon about our latest grant, awarded to participants of our mental health retreat. For more information, please email grants@childrenandscreens.com.
Recent Grants
In 2020, the Institute awarded three interdisciplinary, inter-institutional scientific research grants. The grants totalled $250,000 and explored the mental, cognitive, and physical effects of young people’s digital media consumption before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The fourth grant, awarded in 2021, totaling $100,000, investigated the cognitive and neuroscientific impacts of digital media on growing brains.
Details coming soon about our latest grant, awarded to participants of our mental health retreat. For more information, please email grants@childrenandscreens.com.
