Hayek Fund for Faculty Research Grants

The Hayek Fund provides grants of $500 to $5,000 to faculty at accredited colleges and universities conducting research within the classical liberal tradition. Research often hinges on timely opportunities — presenting at a conference, accessing an archive, purchasing a dataset, collaborating with a research assistant, or preparing a manuscript for submission. The Hayek Fund helps offset these targeted costs, so your work can move forward without delay. The program supports rigorous scholarship that contributes meaningfully to ongoing academic conversations about political, economic, intellectual, and cultural freedom. Awarded faculty retain full independence over research design, analysis, and publication. Preference is given to research connected to IHS initiatives or scholarly communities, projects with clearly articulated publication or dissemination plans, and proposals that demonstrate meaningful contributions to ongoing academic conversations. Preference will be given to proposals aligned with IHS's current research priorities: the political and legal foundations of liberal democracy; economic freedom and the policy conditions for abundance; and the institutional design questions that make self-government stable and effective.