Research Western
Funding Opportunites - Research
Further details regarding this announcement can be found at:
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/Research/internalfunding.html
Sponsor/Award: UWO INTERNAL EDUCATION - FACULTY OF EDUCATION: ESTABLISHING A RESEARCH GROUP/UNIT - 2010 SPRING COMPETITION

Grant Amount: 10,000 FOR ONE YEAR
Deadline: Dean's: Contact your Faculty Research Office for deadline details.
Internal: May 24, 2010
Sponsor's: May 31, 2010

Subject Areas: Collaboration
Description:

The Faculty of Education supports faculty researchers who wish to develop focused, collaborative, research initiatives through the creation of a Research Group. To this end, individual grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to one or two (depending on available budgets) Research Groups who have a clearly articulated proposal. Whenever possible, a graduate student will be assigned to the group to assist in its activities. The application form is available on the Faculty of Education?s website.

Deadline for submission will be April 30th. For 2010 only, the deadline is May 31. These awards are to support faculty researchers who wish to develop focused, collaborative, research initiatives through the creation of a Research Group. Travel to conferences will not be considered and should be funded through the travel policy. Grants may be renewed once.

Application Details: Each application must include: 1) Working title of the Group (?Centre? or ?Institute? is not permitted to be used; see the attached section 7.9 of the Manual of Academic Policies and Procedures.) 2) Brief description of the research focus of the Group, with objectives. 3) A list of the faculty members involved with the Lead or Contact Person indicated. 4) Budget allocations (e.g., support for proposal writing, meetings) and budget justification. 5) Plan for the application for additional funding beyond the end of the grant. 6) Involvement of potential graduate student (desirable, but not essential)
NOTE: Letters of Intent and Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant, Chair and Dean signatures). Requests for Institutional signatures should be received no less than 3 days prior to the posted Sponsor deadline.
Western Contacts:

Sponsor Contacts:

KUENEMAN@UWO.CA
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Canada