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Seed Grant Funding

The Global Sport Institute awards grants of up to $20,000 per project to ASU researchers to promote the study of sport. The goal of our seed grant program is to support emerging researchers in the field and broaden the overall knowledge base.

Seed grant applications for the 2021-2022 academic year are now closed. See the past seed grant recipients and topics at Seed Grant Awardees.

Seed Grant recipient forms

Past and current seed grant recipients should use the Airtable forms below to submit the necessary requests, reports and deliverables.

For the 2021–2022 Seed Grant program, unless other arrangements have been made with GSI, deadlines are as follows:

Midterm Report - July 15, 2022
Final Report - January 13, 2023

Seed Grant deliverables submission  - use this link to upload PDFs of published papers, conference presentations or similar items.

IRB approvals
Budget reallocation request
Project extension request

Our Seed Grant Awardees

Alaina Zanin

2017-2018 and 2019-2020 Recipient

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Michael McBeath

2017-2018 Recipient

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Vera Lopez

2018-2019 Recipient

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Andrés Martinez

2017-2018 and 2019-2020 Recipient

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Hyunglae Lee

2017-2018 and 2019-2020 Recipient

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Allison Ross

2017-2018 and 2019-2020 Recipient

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Jorge Caviedes

2017-2018 and 2019-2020 Recipient

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Devoney Looser

2017-2018 Recipient

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Edward Vargas

2018-2019 Recipient

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Floris Wardenaar

2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Recipient

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