Summer Research Grants for Faculty

STONE CENTER SUMMER FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS Policies and Procedures

DEADLINE TO APPLY: FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Introduction: Funding is provided chiefly to promote individual and collaborative research that cannot be achieved without this support. Applicants are kindly requested to inform themselves about entitlements or grant opportunities from regular university or extra-university sources. Center staff will be available to review these other opportunities with you if necessary. Stone Center faculty research fellowships will be awarded in three categories. You may apply under one category each year. The applications may be generated on your computer, but should use the following numerical system to identify your response to particular questions. Responses may be grouped together if useful. The funding application and supporting documentation must be saved as one single .pdf file (please save the file as “LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME”) and submitted electronically as an email attachment to the following address: [email protected].

Eligibility: Eligibility is limited to core and affiliate faculty of the Stone Center who will return to Tulane the following academic year. Faculty who accept the grant but do not return must reimburse the grant. NOTE: Faculty members serving on the Stone Center Faculty Research Committee may submit a research grant proposal during their tenure of service on the Committee, but must recuse themselves from decisions regarding their own proposal.

Priorities: Priority funding is for the development of junior faculty preparing for promotion and tenure and for interdisciplinary research that advances the strategic goals of the Stone Center and Tulane University for excellence in teaching, research, and community service.

Categories of Funding: Funding categories include: (A) Fieldwork–field research conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean; (B) Materials–the acquisition of unique, out-of-the-ordinary research materials essential to the project (books, maps, software, CD-ROMS, etc; and (C) Assistance–the service of in-country assistants, consultants, or external laboratories (translation, data collecting, illustration, photography, indexing, scanning) to help advance the faculty member’s research. Note that faculty members who wish to apply for Assistance grants for which they require the service of in-country assistants or consultants should consult with the Assistant Director of Administration before beginning the approved project. Assistance grants are meant to support and advance the faculty member’s research program. They are not meant as opportunities for graduate student training or research. Graduate students affiliating with a faculty member project or research site in order to advance their own professional training or research interests should apply separately to the Stone Center’s Graduate Student Summer Field Research Grant program.

Evaluation Criteria: The Stone Center Faculty Research Committee will judge applications on the basis of (1) the significance of the project to the advancement of knowledge, both in disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies, (2) the scholar’s qualifications to carry out the research, (3) evidence of the applicant’s record in meeting specified objectives as demonstrated in outcomes of previous grants, (4) the optimization of resources in the research design, and (5) the care and comprehensiveness with which the proposal addressed all relevant questions in the application.

Funds Disbursement Procedures: In accordance with current University practice and regulations, funds for successful grant applications will be disbursed accordingly: 1. FIELDWORK International Travel For grants supporting international travel, grantees collect the full award amount as a travel advance, which must be submitted online via the CONCUR system. Individual faculty members are the only ones who can submit travel advance requests via CONCUR. For assistance with the CONCUR system and the process for submitting a travel advance request, faculty should consult with their own departmental administrative assistant/secretary. At the end of the summer field experience, faculty members must clear their travel advances on CONCUR by uploading and applying any receipts as expenses against the grant Domestic Travel

of 2; updated January 12, 2017 For domestic travel, grantees collect their award as a travel reimbursement upon completion of travel and the submission of all relevant receipts. Reimbursement requests must also be submitted online via the CONCUR system. Grantees will only be reimbursed for an amount equivalent to the total value of all receipts submitted, but not to exceed the original award amount. 2. MATERIALS Payment for expenses incurred under the “Materials” category will also be processed through the CONCUR system via the uploading and submission of all relevant receipts. Again, grantees will only be reimbursed for an amount equivalent to the total value of all receipts submitted for the specific materials outlined in the proposal, but not to exceed the original award amount. Reimbursement will not be made for materials that were not included in the approved proposal. 3. ASSISTANCE Processing payment for expenses incurred under the “Assistance” category depends on what the “assistance” entails. Please consult with the Assistant Director of Administration for guidance on how payment for this category will need to be handled.

NOTE: Funds awarded for all three categories are available for use only on projects undertaken over the relevant summer period. Funds requested under this program for a summer research project, but not used as of the end of the relevant summer period, will NOT carry forward and a new application must be submitted for the subsequent summer grant process.

Post-Award Requirements: Grantees must also present one-page reports of their research and accomplishments by Oct. 1 of the same year as their summer grant. These final reports should be edited and submitted ready for publication in our newsletter and for posting on our web site. Grantees are also asked to submit an illustration related to the project. Reports files should be submitted as a single .pdf file (please save the file as “LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME” as an email attachment to the following address: [email protected].

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