Southwest Native American Communities & Natural Resources Fellowship, 2010 Community Forestry & Environmental Research Partnerships
Deadline: May 26, 2010 Contact: Anne-Marie Flynn, Program Coordinator Phone: 530-219-3882 Email: [email protected]The Community Forestry & Environmental Research Partnerships program is supporting current and potential Native American graduate students who are doing participatory research with Native American communities in the Southwestern United States (including Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Utah, and Southwestern Colorado). The program accepts proposals for research on sustainable natural resource management, social and economic justice in environmental management, community ability to maintain traditional lifeways and land uses in the face of outside and/or competing interests, integrating scientific and traditional knowledge in environmental restoration, and other topics relevant to natural resource issues in southwestern Native American communities. Participatory research is a cooperative approach to research in which community members and scholars are partners in the research process. Such research should lead to community members to make more informed decisions to improve their lives.
The Program will provide funding support of up to approximately $7000 for Master’s projects and $15,000 for Dissertations. In addition, pre-dissertation and pre-Master’s funding may be supported with up to a $2500 proposal development award. These preliminary funding awards would be given to help students develop more refined proposals in collaboration with their community partner.