ASWB Regulatory Research Grant Program
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Funds research on social work occupational and professional regulation: examination pass rates, licensure impact, supervision, practice standards, electronic practice and regulatory enforcement. ASWB may share its test-taker demographic and performance datasets with funded researchers.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No maximum award is published. The page states ASWB deliberately excluded a maximum budget amount from the call so as not to limit needed resources; partial funding and budget negotiation are possible, and funds are usually disbursed quarterly against deliverables.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · JunNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.CAUTION: the live page carries a March 2023 date and its stated proposal deadline of 30 June 2023 has passed, with no newer call posted. Treat as periodic and confirm with ASWB (Jennifer Henkel, jhenkel@aswb.org) before relying on it.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- Open to individual researchers, research teams and multi-institution collaborations; projects may span multiple states and multiple years with regular reporting. No citizenship or institution-type restriction is published on the page; the RFP is obtained by contacting ASWB staff directly.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- licensure and regulation · examination outcomes · supervision · electronic practice
- Apply at
- https://www.aswb.org/research/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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