Program Details
The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute (ARDRI) is a mini-grant program and summer institute designed to help a cohort of up to 6 University of Michigan scholars or teams take an idea for a project and develop a proposal and project plan.
Awardees will work with experts and each other to gain a deeper understanding of anti-racist digital research methods and develop a learning community of anti-racist digital researchers and practitioners. Throughout the institute, you’ll work with peers and digital scholarship technical and methodology experts to develop an ethical, sustainable, and justice-oriented digital project proposal and plan that will guide your research project.
What the program provides
- $5,000 in project funds to be awarded upon completion of the institute
- Participation in a summer institute with a cohort of peers, along with technical and library staff
- A mentor dedicated to providing one-on-one project support throughout the summer institute
- Shared knowledge and understanding of anti-racist digital research methods
- Support for the conceptualization and development of a proposal and/or project plan that can be used to solicit funding for the next stage of the project
- Access to library and technical expertise for planning project requirements
- Community-building and other opportunities through NCID’s Anti-Racism Collaborative
- Affiliation with U-M centers and institutes that align with your project
See more about the support we’ll provide and how you can use your grant funds, including information about possible supplemental funding.
Structure of the summer institute
The ARDRI curriculum is designed to incorporate theory, praxis, and application. Awardees will learn to effectively integrate anti-racist research practices (such as critical consciousness and anti-colonial research methodologies) and digital scholarship methodologies into their research projects.
The institute will take place from May through June 2025. Modules of the curriculum and other activities will be spread out over 8 weeks, with an average of 1 to 2 events per week. We will support both in-person and remote participation.
The institute will consist of:
- A 2-day institute kick-off in May.
- 6 sessions with curriculum modules over the course of the institute.
- Opportunities for engagement with cohort peers and project support staff once per week.
We expect the time commitment to be 1 day per week from May through June after the initial 2-day kick-off.