University of Oregon
AC-10: Support for Sustainability Research

Scores of research assistance awards are available at the department, college, and university level. The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) recently launched a new website that provides a consolidated location for students to find resources on research funding opportunities, including those on sustainability research.

Graduate students can find research opportunities here: https://research.uoregon.edu/plan/find-funding/internal-funding-opportunities#departmental.

Undergraduate students can find resources here: https://research.uoregon.edu/plan/undergraduate-research

Examples of sustainability research programs for students include the Eco Systems Workforce Program ( http://ewp.uoregon.edu/about/experience) and the Environmental Leadership Program (http://envs.uoregon.edu/environmental-leadership-program-2/).


Positive outcomes: Seven interdisciplinary research teams addressing major areas around sustainability, resilience and climate change have received seed grants through the Resilience Initiative seed funding program.

The University of Oregon offers a number of incentives that encourage faculty research in sustainability. Most notably, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) launched the Resilience Initiative in Spring 2019.

The Resilience Initiative aims to build new, trans-disciplinary collaborations and support the development of new research agendas in social-environmental research. Sponsored by the OVPRI, this seed funding program supports creative and innovative approaches to research and scholarship that are rigorous in approach and inventive in design, while also grounded in principles of ethical leadership and social and environmental justice.

The Resilience Initiative website can be found here: https://resilience.uoregon.edu/.

All academic departments and programs with tenure-related faculty appointments must have promotion and tenure criteria that have been reviewed and approved by their dean and by Academic Affairs. Several allude to the interdisciplinary nature of teaching and research in that particular field. Department-level criteria for tenure can be found at https://provost.uoregon.edu/department-unit-policies.

University of Oregon Libraries provides Research Guides for a variety of research areas, including sustainability. These guides can be divided by subject area (see: http://researchguides.uoregon.edu/?b=s). The Environmental Studies subject area contains 10 different guides related to sustainability. However, a number of other subject areas also contain relevant research guides, notably Food Studies, Marine Biology, and Planning and Public Policy.