Grant & Contract Support

The University offers a variety of resources to assist with grant writing and support when a grant is received. Here we link to a list for some of those resources. 

Interdisciplinary Research Support (Office of Research) - The Interdisciplinary Research Support team coordinates and implements a variety of research development activities that enable faculty, researchers, and administrators to attract extramural research funding, create research relationships, and develop and implement strategies that increase the competitiveness of UC Davis.

Sponsored Projects Administration (Office of Research) - Sponsored Programs reviews and submits research proposals, negotiates and accepts awards on behalf of the UC Regents, and drafts, negotiates and executes (outgoing) subawards for collaborative research. Select the topic below for more information and relevant instructions.

Human Ecology Accounts (Cluster 5) - The department offers accounts management and grant support in administering grants and putting together proposal budgets. 

Finding Grant Opportunities (Office of Research) - The Interdisciplinary Research Support team offers weekly emails that provide information on request for proposals from wide-ranging sources.

To Consider When Budgeting for Grants & Contracts

Budgeting 

• Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) 
  • College will cover benefits.
    • Benefit rates change. Updated rates can be found here.
  • Step: Determined by the group-specific UCD Graduate Student Compensation Plan
  • Salary Scales for GSRs by appointment and step
• Additional Compensation
  • Fiscal year faculty (11-monthers) accrue vacation (valuable upon retirement) but must exchange some of this when taking additional comp (any month not teaching), thus they do best by targeting low vacation hour months (Feb/Nov/Dec) or medium ones (Jan/July) and avoiding high ones (April/May/Aug/Oct) (these depend on the year– advise checking with account manager).
  • Academic year faculty (9-monthers) don’t accrue vacation, thus don’t need to exchange; can only take during summer months but can take 3 months in contrast to the limit of 1 month for 11-month faculty. 9-month faculty can get an additional 3 months of salary for work during the summer through grants and contracts.
• Salary Savings
  • ​​​​​​​You can use grant money to pay some of your normal salary and 75% returns to your faculty account. 
  • If you have an AES appointment, then you have some percentage of that AES appointment title, for example "agronomist." If you are X% “agronomist”:  $75*X% goes to your 99300 acct and $75*(1-X%) to your 99100.