Residency Funding

Residency Funding supports PhD students and postdoctoral fellows seeking short-term placements—typically one week to one month—at universities, academic centers, or research organizations beyond their home institution. Focused time in a new intellectual environment can accelerate dissertation progress, sharpen arguments, and build lasting scholarly relationships. Funding may be used to access datasets or archival materials unavailable at your home institution, work directly with mentors or prospective collaborators, develop sustained research partnerships, or contribute to active scholarly projects aligned with your research agenda. Awarded scholars may receive up to $10,000 to support a short-term research residency, with larger awards considered for exceptional projects with clearly defined scholarly value. Awarded scholars retain full independence over research design, analysis, and publication. Preference is given to proposals aligned with IHS's 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.