IJPM will make available grant money to promote scholarly study in the areas of law, politics, and the media. These opportunities include Research Fellowships and Project Grants.
Research Fellowships
Each year, IJPM will distribute Individual and Collaborative Research Fellowships to support interdisciplinary, law-oriented research. Research proposals that examine issues at the intersection of law, politics, and the media are preferred. Research proposals that address questions related to law and politics or to law and the media will also be considered. Qualitative, as well as quantitative, proposals are welcome. Proposals that make use of the data or research tools provided by Syracuse University's Transactional Record Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) are encouraged.
Only full-time faculty and full-time graduate students at Syracuse University are eligible to apply for IJPM's Individual and Collaborative Research Fellowships.
Individual faculty and graduate students may apply for the Individual Research Fellowships. These fellowships will be in the amount of $750. Faculty member and graduate student pairs may submit proposals for collaborative research. The joint faculty or joint graduate student proposals will be considered for Collaborative Research Fellowships in the amount of $1500.
Recipients of Individual and Collaborative Research Fellowships will be listed, along with a description of their research, on our webpage as "IJPM Research Fellows." Research Fellowship recipients will be required to acknowledge IJPM's support in any published work that flows from their research proposal, and to make the details of their completed research available to IJPM in a timely fashion for advertising and promotion. Fellowship recipients will also be required to present their work in an IJPM-sponsored colloquia series organized specifically for the Research Fellows.
Application Submission and Deadlines
The Fall 2007 submission period began on Friday, November 2, 2007 and closed on Monday, December 3, 2007. Fellowship recipients were announced on Friday, January 25, 2008. A listing of all IJPM Felllowship recipients can be seen here.
For questions regarding IJPM's Research Fellowships, please contact Kyle Somers at kjsomers@syr.edu.
Project Grants
Each year, IJPM will distribute one $2500 Project Grant to support interdisciplinary research in our areas of interest.
The Project Grants will be awarded to the College of Law, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in successive years.
Lisa A. Dolak, Board of Advisors Professor of Law and IJPM Associate Director, used the 2006-07 Project Grant to launch a study of how the mass media portrays intellectual property rights (IPR). The recent dramatic expansion of IPR acquisition and exploitation around the globe has made IPR a pressing issue of policy debate and regular item on the Supreme Court's docket. The surge in IPR activity has also drawn increased media attention, including extensive coverage of several high-profile IPR disputes. Professor Dolak assessed this coverage, examining the images of IPR constructed by the media as well as how these media images shaped popular understanding and influenced judicial decisionmaking. Professor Dolak's work served as the basis for the "Creators vs. Consumers" conference organized by IJPM on October 26, 2007.
Mark Obbie, Associate Director of the Carnegie Reporting Program at Newhouse, is the recipient of the 2007-08 Project Grant, and Keith Bybee, IJPM Director, is the recipient of the 2008-09 Project Grant. Watch this space for details on their plans.
