CPWR Small Study Program
Seed funding from the building-trades unions' research center to test promising construction safety and health research or practical interventions. The page frames it as the on-ramp to larger projects and notes that over 60 percent of funded researchers have published in peer-reviewed journals.
- Indicative award
- up to $30k (total award)Page states awards of up to $30,000. No published minimum and no stated project duration.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The page states applications are accepted on a rolling basis; no fixed deadline is published.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- The page invites investigators from a wide range of disciplines, naming applied computer sciences, communication sciences, construction management, consumer marketing, economics, engineering, and psychology, alongside occupational safety researchers, ergonomists, epidemiologists, and industry practitioners. It does not state a citizenship, degree, or institution-type restriction, and it does not require a union partnership, though stated funding priorities favor stakeholder-engaged work targeting small employers of 19 or fewer workers and residential or light commercial construction.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- construction safety and health · worker health interventions · small employers · research to practice
- Apply at
- https://www.cpwr.com/research/small-studies-program/
- 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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