Michael Brill Award

THE MICHAEL BRILL RESEARCH GRANT IN URBAN COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY DESIGN

This Grant honors EDRA member Michael Brill, whose work encompassed both design and communication as a way to extend his recognition that both fields are undergoing radical change.

About the Award

The Michael Brill Research Grant in Urban Communication and Community Design supports innovative research that seeks to enhance the quality of community life by examining human communicative behavior in the context of the technologies and the physical environments in which those interactions occur.  This research should address and connect theoretical perspectives from the fields of communication, design, and the social sciences. Research supported by the Brill Grant may focus on how physical community places influence the mode, nature, and content of human communicative behavior OR use a communication lens for examining communal places and human activity.”

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Grant Amount

The amount disbursed every year is $ 3,000.

Eligibility

Eligible participants must be EDRA members to apply for and receive this grant.

Awardee Responsibility

Research results based on the grant must be presented at an EDRA conference within 3 years of the Grant’s award. The awardee must acknowledge the Grant when presenting or publishing work resulting from research supported by the Grant. A brief progress report is due if research is not complete 12 months after the award.

Application requirements

Submit application at www.edra.org/brill-submission. For a complete description of the application requirements, please download the full grant announcement of this one-page flyer outlining the steps in the application process. The Phase 1 deadline is October 15, 2025.

Please email the Michael Brill Research Grant here

Critical dates

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Past recipients

2025 Recipient

Sana Ahrar, PhD Student in Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

2024 Recipient

Yasaman Gholami, PhD Student in Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology

Being Together” in Computer-mediated Communication: Exploring the Role of the Built Environment

2023 Recipient

Ruth Barankevich, Graduate Student, University of California Irvine

Environmental Affordances for Social Interactions Bridging Physical and Virtual Spaces

2022 Recipient

Anya Domlesky, Director of Research, SWA Group

The Life in the Urban Night

2021 Recipient

Pablo García de Paredes - Doctorant en architecture, Université Laval, Québec, Canada and PhD Candidate in Social Sciences, University of Panamá

A Re-design of Home Use and Home Environments Due to COVID Will Have an Impact in Communication and Community Engagement

2020 Recipient

Prof. Kyoungmee Kate Byun -  Northern Arizona University

Exploration of human perception towards physical settings of an exhibition as a narrative environment: A study using Virtual Reality (VR)

2019 Recipient

How Does Streetscape Design Communicate Walkability and Influence Walking Behavior?

2018 Recipient

Miyoung Hong

Understanding Communication and Patient Care Delivery in Two Different Outpatient Clinic Designs: A Comparison of Onstage/Offstage and Linear Modules.

2017 Recipient

Georgia Lindsay

Communicating Sustainability in the Green Science Museum.

2016 Recipient

Nastaran Tabyanian - Pennsylvania State University

Developing an Online Platform for Participatory Resilient Urban Landscape Design.

2015 Recipients

Seunghae Lee and Paul Platosh - Oregon State University

Wayfinding and Augmented Reality.

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