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2021 Summer Research Support Guidelines

Overview

The Summer Research Support (SRS) was created in 2013 by the Office of the Dean in the College of Health and Human Sciences. The program is designed to (1) increase productivity in research, innovation, and creativity, (2) further develop CHHS’ unique strengths and opportunities in applied and inter-disciplinary research, and (3) grow and diversify CHHS’ extramural research funding.

Instructions (Updated 03/25/2021)

1. The Principal Investigator (PI) of the proposal must be a tenured, tenure-track, or non-tenure track faculty in CHHS. Preference will be given to junior faculty and to faculty who have not received Summer Research Support funds in the past. If funded, the PI will receive a half month salary for summer research. In order to provide research opportunities to as many faculty as possible, recipients of summer funding are asked to not submit the year after their award, but wait until the following year.

2. The proposals are evaluated based on their intellectual merits and broader impact on CHHS’s vision and mission. Proposals with the following attributes are highly encouraged:

• Have potential to generate results to secure external funding (significant consideration will be given to this point).
• Have potential to generate result for publication on a top-ranked journal.
• Reflect and help implement CHHS strategic goals and actions.
• Integrate research with education.

3. The recipients must submit a report of their research results (two pages minimum) before Friday, August 13, 2021, and must present at the CHHS Research Symposium in Fall 2021. The report should provide a summary of the research conducted, the results/findings, and conclusions with expected future work.

4. The proposal should have the following two parts:

• Part I: The Cover Page – This page should include research project title, principal investigator (PI) name and contact information.
• Part II: The Proposal – The research proposal should have a project title and project description, including how the project will help implement CHHS’ strategic goals and actions, how the project will integrate research and education, how the results will be published, and be utilized to seek external funding.

5. Please note that the Research Committee is conducting a blind review process, so the cover page (with PI’s name and contact information) will be removed by the Dean’s office staff before sending it to the Research Committee for review. The second part of a proposal should NOT include any identity information of the PI.

6. Page Limit: Please prepare your proposal to include the following sections within three pages (not including the cover page and references).

Project Title: A concise name for the research project.

Project Description: It outlines the general plan of work, including the broad design of activities to be undertaken, and, where appropriate, provide a clear description of experimental methods and procedures, and expected outcomes. It must describe as an integral part of the narrative, the prior work, the broader impacts resulting from the proposed activities, addressing one or more of the following as appropriate for the project:

• What will be the expected outcomes of this project?
• How will the results of the project be utilized to seek external funding?
• How will the project integrate research and education by advancing discovery and understanding?
• What is the timeline of this research?

References Cited (this part is NOT counted in the 3-page limit)

Each reference must include the names of all authors (in the same sequence in which they appear in the publication), the article and journal title, book title, volume number, page numbers, and year of publication. If the document is available electronically, the website address also should be identified.

Submission Deadline:

Please submit your proposal electronically via email to cwaters@siu.edu before April 16, 2021. 

Awarding Date: The awarding decision will be sent out before April 30, 2021.

CHHS Research Committee

Brandon Hirsch, Bryan Harrison, Cara Doerr, Chad Drake, Don Morris, Justin McDaniel, Sean Boyle, Tammy Kochel

Ex-Officio Members: Scott Collins, Michael Behrmann

Summer Research Support Rubric 

• A value between 1 (Poor) and 4 (Excellent) will be awarded for each criterion.
• The sum of scores will be added as the final score.

Project Title: ____________________________________

Total Score: ________________