For UMass PI-led RDF Proposals
WORLDWIDE UNIVERSITIES NETWORK 2016-2017 RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUND University of Massachusetts Amherst Limited Submission Proposal
Form DUE: August 03, 2016 to [email protected] UMASS PI NAME: Eligibility: All full-time UMass Amherst faculty whose appointments extend beyond the current academic year are invited to submit applications. TITLE OF PROJECT
GLOBAL CHALLENGE ADDRESSED (check the one most closely associated with your project): 1. Global Higher Education and Research: Access and Equity in Higher Education: Economic and Social Outcomes of Diversity and Globalization 1(a) Demographic drivers for engaging disenfranchised parts of the population from different countries 1(b) Factors that affect participation and achievement for the first in families to enroll in university 1(c) Role of English language in access to higher education 2. Public Health (Non-Communicable Disease) 2(a) Lifecourse approach to healthy ageing 2(b) Health of migrants across the lifecourse 2(c) The resilience of adolescents and health workers in different cultural contexts 2(c) Schools as a setting for reducing risk factors associated with NCDs 3. Responding to Climate Change 3(a) Global research platforms: a Network of “Living Labs” encompassing: Biophysical, agricultural practice, cultural and social perspectives; Standardization of techniques for data analysis and evaluation; and Access 3(b) Resilience of human systems, related to food and environment security 4. Understanding Cultures 4(a) Migration and population 4(b) Two-way understanding of China 4(c) Indigenous peoples and societies
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES (optional) (Check any that are clearly related to your project) Economics Regional Programs in China Big Data Regional Programs in Africa
CORE WUN PARTNERS* (Proposals must include collaborators from at least two other WUN institutions, and at least one of the partner institutions cannot be in the USA. List the institutions and particular collaborators that you expect to include on your team, even if the collaborative arrangements are not yet in place and confirmed.) WUN Institution #1 ______Collaborator Name: ______WUN Institution #2 ______Collaborator Name: ______WUN Institution #3 ______Collaborator Name: ______WUN Institution #4 ______Collaborator Name: ______WUN Institution #5 ______Collaborator Name: ______WUN Institution #6 ______Collaborator Name: ______
NON-WUN PARTNERS (optional) (List any collaborations with partners at non-WUN universities you expect to include on your team, even if arrangements are not yet in place and confirmed) Non-WUN Institution #1 ______Country: ______Non-WUN Institution #2 ______Country: ______n No -WUN Institution #3 ______Country: ______Non-WUN Institution #4 ______Country: ______
OTHER EXPECTED PARTNERS (optional) (corporate, government, NGO, etc.) Other Partner #1 ______Other Partner #2 ______Other Partner #3 ______
* Eligible WUN Member Organizations for Collaboration: The University of Alberta, Canada Maastricht University, The Netherlands The University of Auckland, New Zealand The University of Rochester, USA The University of Basel, Switzerland The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom The University of Bergen, Norway The University of Southampton, United Kingdom The University of Bristol, United Kingdom The University of Sydney, Australia The University of Cape Town, South Africa The University of Western Australia, Australia The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong The University of York, United Kingdom The University of Ghana, Ghana Zhejiang University, China The University of Leeds, United Kingdom
PIs should contact Elizabeth Chilton ([email protected]), the WUN Campus Coordinator for UMass, to identify potential collaborators at WUN institutions.
NARRATIVE AND BUDGET Attach a separate document, 2 pages maximum, addressing the following: 1. Project Description. In language accessible to the non-specialist, describe what you intend to do, and how the effort will contribute to building or strengthening sustainable international research collaborations. Explain how it is new and important to scholars and/or society generally. Explain what you expect to be the outcome of the work, and its scholarly or other impact. Explain how you and your collaborators will undertake the work. Where special skills or techniques are required at any point, make clear who will supply them. 2. Relevance To WUN Goals. Explain briefly how the program aligns with WUN strategic objectives and how it addresses a WUN Global Challenge. 3. Sustainability. Outline how the program will build long-term, sustainable international relationships based on genuine commitment by the research partners. Describe the sustainability plans, including specific future funding levels and sources to support the research collaboration after the RDF seed monies expire. 4. Teamwork. Outline how the project team will be led and constituted, including the participation of early career researchers and PhD students. 5. Anticipated Outcomes. List the key performance indicators of this project (e.g.: joint external funding applications, joint publications, postgraduate training, policy input, novel technologies etc.). 6. Budget. List the total amount requested from the WUN Research Development Fund (in US$) and the anticipated matching contribution amounts to be requested from UMass Amherst and each of the contributing collaborator institutions. Also describe the purposes for which the WUN funds will be used.**
** RDF funds may cover the costs of exploratory research initiatives, targeted workshops, faculty exchanges and the formation of collaborative networks, among other activities. Applications that incorporate a research mobility component for early career researchers and postgraduate students are encouraged. The WUN Research Development Fund will not cover management fees, salaries or salary supplementation, purchase of capital assets, equipment depreciation, scholarships, course fees and bench fees. Where funds are to be used for air travel, only economy class fares are permissible. UMass Amherst will make available matching funds for proposals selected in the Limited Submission process, up to USD $10,000. PIs are responsible for securing any additional matching amounts from collaborators’ institutions or other sources of funding as needed to meet the WUN match threshold.
DEPARTMENT AND COLLEGE ENDORSEMENT With your application, please include emails of endorsement from the appropriate Department and College.