Humanities and
Social Sciences
Scholarship and Research Award (SRA)
Scholarship and Research Award (SRA)
Fiscal Year 2015-2016
Announcement, Proposal Guidelines, and Procedures
Key Dates:
Proposal Deadline: September 23, 2015. 9:00 PM
Research Committee Review: September 23, 2015 to October 5,
2016
Awards Announced: No later than October 12, 2015
Spending on awards completed by: May 31, 2016
Maximum Budget:
$4000
The Humanities and Social Sciences Research Office is pleased to announce
the call and guidelines for the CHASS Scholarship and Research Awards (SRAs).
These awards are intended to assist faculty in their scholarly pursuits.
Applications are due electronically (in PDF format) to the Research Office by
9:00 PM, Wednesday, September 23, 2015. The SRA cover page and CV page must be
included (see http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/scholarly.php).
Please email your complete application to mailto:chass-rsrch@ncsu.edu and to Tom Birkland (mailto:tabirkla@ncsu.edu). Awards will be
announced in mid-October.
Please note: This will be the final year in which the SRA
program is offered. Starting in Spring 2016, the College will be making these
awards as part of the Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD)
program. This change will enable faculty to use funds across an entire fiscal
year. Details will become available in the Spring.
Individual faculty may apply for an SRA that provides support for expenses
related to research, scholarship, and scholarship on teaching and learning.
Allowable expenses include transportation, subsistence, materials and supplies, hourly graduate student support
including fringe, copying, or other expenses related to collection of data or library source materials. SRA funds are not available for conference travel, for additional pay or release time for faculty, or expenditures not allowed on state-appropriated funds.
A tangible scholarly product is expected from funded projects. Projects that will lead to external funding (grants, fellowships (of
particular value to the humanities),
and the like) will receive the highest funding priority.
Projects can begin immediately upon our notification of funding. Spending on projects must be completed by
May 31, 2016. Funds not expended by this
date will be returned to the Research Office to support SRAs in the following
year. This deadline is firm, and no extensions will be allowed. We discourage
faculty from proposing travel or summer support because such spending would
occur after the spending deadline. Faculty seeking support for summer research
activities are encouraged to apply externally
Eligibility Requirements
Tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply; their proposals need only be signed by their department head. NTT faculty members may apply. To do so, they must supply a letter of support from their department heads, explaining how the project will benefit the researcher, the department, and the college. No faculty member
may receive consecutive SRAs.
Review Criteria
Scholarship and Research Awards
will be evaluated and ranked by the Research Committee according to relative
merit. Merit will be determined by assessing:
·
The scholarly significance of the project. This should be
explained in the proposal in terms of the importance of the project in the
discipline.
· The extent to which the
project will be recognized in the scholarly community, such as through publications,
grants, contracts, awards, memberships, distinctions, and the like.
· The likelihood that the proposed project will lead to applications for external funding. Proposals should, where appropriate in the applicant’s discipline, include a short description of potential funders beyond general references to, for example, “NEH” or “NSF.” Better proposals will target a specific funding program, provide its web address or other documentation,
and will indicate, where available, the cognizant program officer at the funder. The research committee will no longer infer the
likelihood of external funding. The investigator will make this explicit. Please note that this is not the sole criterion for
support, but it is an important criterion that will be considered in reviews.
Better proposals will offer more complete information on this criterion.
· How well the project is conceived, defined, articulated, and organized.
· The feasibility of the project, including the ability of the applicant(s) to complete the proposed project.
· Results of the investigator’s prior research efforts supported by the College.
· The likely outlets for publication of the work supported by the award.
Award/Reporting Requirements
·
No award will be made unless applicants have complete and
updated faculty profile information. Instructions on how to do this are at http://chassresearch.blogspot.com/p/how-to-update-your-
faculty-profile.html
·
Faculty will report, by June 30, 2016, the results of the
SRA-funded effort.
·
Faculty who have
received college support in the past, but have not completed reporting on those
project outcomes, will not be funded. If you apply, and we do not
have a report on the outcomes of previous college support on file, we will
inform you and you will have five business days to submit the report. If no
report is submitted, your application will not be considered.
·
It is expected that the SRA will lead directly to a
scholarly or research outcome (e.g., publication or grant proposal, or the like).
·
Recipients are encouraged to present a summary of their
project activity to an appropriate audience during the funding period. Examples
of appropriate venues would include, but are not limited to, department or
college seminars, public school outreach, or other community outreach. Award
recipients are expected to keep the college informed of such outcomes and
contributions.
Application Format (REQUIRED DOCUMENTS, combined
into a single PDF document with applicant’s name in the filename)
·
SRA Cover Page signed by department head of each
investigator (Please scan the signed cover page and include with other
documents)
·
Abbreviated Vitae Page for each investigator
·
Proposal narrative – no more than 1000 words.
·
A one-page description of potential external funders of your
ongoing research
·
Budget Page with Explanation of Expenses (e.g., technical
support, research expenses, materials and supplies, travel and associated
costs, other).
·
Forms can be found here: http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/scholarly.php
Electronic submission to the Research Office is required in PDF format. Email to chass-rsrch@ncsu.edu and copied to tabirkla@ncsu.edu no later than 9 PM, Wednesday, September
23, 2015.
