Graduate Research Awards

Rethinking Regulation at the Kenan Institute for Ethics invites graduate and professional students to apply for small research grants to fund the costs of research related to the analysis of regulatory governance, either for a pilot study that might turn into an eventual dissertation topic, or for an already formulated dissertation project. The Institute will furnish up to $2,000 per award, which must be used for research expenses (travel, purchase of research materials, etc.). We anticipate making three awards.

All proposals related to the broad domain of regulatory governance will be considered, though we especially welcome applications that wish to investigate:

• Assessment of risks relevant to regulatory decision-making, including attention to the perception of risks and the complexity of evaluating trade-offs between risks
• Organizational culture and informal norms within regulatory institutions and/or regulated entities
• Strategies for incorporating democratic participation into the regulatory process
• Non-governmental strategies of regulatory governance
• Theories and methods for evaluating the outcomes of regulatory policies, including contributions to the public good and instances of regulatory success
• Innovation in the design of regulatory institutions
• Responses to the problem of “regulatory capture”