For Faculty
The Hayek Fund provides grants of $500 to $5,000 to faculty at accredited colleges and universities conducting research within the classical liberal tradition. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; applicants typically hear back within six weeks. Applications must be submitted at least six weeks before the expense is incurred.
Support for Faculty Expenses
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.
We support 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.
Open to faculty members actively engaged in research within the liberal tradition at any accredited college or university.
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. If you are unsure whether your project fits, contact us before applying.
Travel and Research Activities: travel for conference presentations and archival research; research collaboration, including hiring a research assistant.
Data and Research Materials: purchase of datasets; LLM subscriptions for specialized research sources.
Publishing and Dissemination: journal submission fees; book publication expenses such as copyediting or indexing; preparation of research manuscripts.
PhD application fees, living expenses, hardware purchases, tuition, retroactive expenses, conference travel without a scheduled presentation, and institutional overhead or indirect costs. If you are unsure whether a specific expense qualifies, please refer to our Funding FAQ or contact us for clarification.
There is no fixed cap, but requests should be proportionate to the project scope and clearly tied to defined research tasks. Include a brief description of the assistant’s role in your budget.
No. Retroactive expenses are not eligible. Applications should be submitted before the expense is incurred.
Applicants should be affiliated with an accredited college or university. Independent scholars are generally not eligible, though exceptions may be considered for exceptional projects.
Other IHS funding opportunities for doctoral researchers.