Quick Response Research Award Program
Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
Funds and trains researchers to collect perishable data in the field immediately after an extreme event, with an explicit social science and interdisciplinary focus. Awardees receive editorial support to publish preliminary findings as reports and briefs.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The program page does not publish award amounts or a typical funding range.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Operates through periodic special calls tied to specific events rather than fixed annual deadlines. When fetched, the page stated the program was temporarily paused until July 1, 2026 with no active application cycle; confirm current status with the Center before planning around it.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Researchers across social science and interdisciplinary hazards fields; graduate students and early-career researchers are specifically encouraged. Awards support time-sensitive post-disaster fieldwork rather than long-term studies.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- disaster research · perishable data · post-disaster fieldwork · extreme events
- Apply at
- https://hazards.colorado.edu/quick-response-program
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
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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