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" class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/news/beyond-barriers-carceral-justice-research-summer-grants" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Beyond the Barriers offers carceral justice summer research grants</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li><span class="byline">by <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <span>Ginger M Welsh</span> </span> </span></li> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2024-06-14T10:01:20-07:00" title="Friday, June 14, 2024 - 10:01am" class="datetime">June 14, 2024</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Beyond the Barriers initiative strives to support and recognize formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students, faculty and staff and their important contributions to research initiatives and campus life. It promotes this endeavor with innovative research that centralizes and addresses the challenges that mass incarceration and the over-reliance on imprisonment have presented in California and the United States.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-m-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <a href="/news/2022-23-carceral-research-mini-grants" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk6966/files/styles/sf_thumbnail/public/media/images/Add%20a%20subheading-2.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=HTkPMyLH" width="135" height="135" alt="Graphic image reading "Carceral Research Mini-Grants"" class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/news/2022-23-carceral-research-mini-grants" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">2022-23 Carceral Research Mini-Grants</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-09-29T15:27:30-07:00" title="Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 3:27pm" class="datetime">September 29, 2022</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Beyond the Barriers offers research mini-grants to support research relevant to mass incarceration, the prison system, and other <a href="https://beyond.ucdavis.edu/research" rel="nofollow">topics related to our research mission</a>. </p> <p><strong>Grants of up to $1,000 are available to undergraduates, graduate students in any discipline including in the Schools of Law, Medicine, and Nursing; and faculty. </strong></p></div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <nav class="pager" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="pagination-heading"> <h4 id="pagination-heading" class="visually-hidden">Pagination</h4> <ul class="pager__items js-pager__items"> <li class="pager__item is-active"> <a href="?page=0" title="Current page" aria-current="page"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Current page </span>1</a> </li> <li class="pager__item"> <a href="?page=1" title="Go to page 2"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Page </span>2</a> </li> <li class="pager__item"> <a href="?page=2" title="Go to page 3"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Page </span>3</a> </li> <li class="pager__item pager__item--next"> <a href="?page=1" title="Go to next page" rel="next"> <span class="visually-hidden">Next page</span> <span aria-hidden="true">Next</span> </a> </li> </ul> </nav> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="l-container"> </div> </main> <footer class="l-footer footer dark-background"> <div class="l-container"> <div class="footer-spacer"> <div class="footer-spacer__logo"> <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/"><img src="/profiles/sitefarm/themes/sitefarm_one/images/aggie-logo-white.svg" class="ucd-logo" alt="UC Davis footer logo" width="180" height="140" loading="lazy" /></a> </div> </div> <div class="region region-footer-credits"> <div id="block-sitefarm-one-uccredits" class="uc-footer block block-uc-credits block-uc-credits-block"> <ul class="list--pipe"> <li><a href="http://ucdavis.edu/help/privacy-accessibility.html">Privacy & Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/principles-community">Principles of Community</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/">University of California</a></li> <li><a href="/sitemap">Sitemap</a></li> <li>Last update: January 13, 2025</li> </ul> <p>Copyright © The Regents of the University of California, Davis campus. 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