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Grants
Program
The DRRC
has pursued its research mission in part through its research
funding program that is available to Northwestern faculty
and students, and through compiling and distributing the resulting
research papers in the DRRC Working Paper Series. Below are
the guidelines for the DRRC's grants program. If you are a
Northwestern University faculty member or Ph.D. student and
wish to be put on our mailing list for grant proposal forms,
please email your request to drrc@kellogg.northwestern.edu
I.
Applicants:
A.
Principal investigators must be affiliated with Northwestern
as full-time faculty or graduate students during the grant
period. Co-investigators need not be Northwestern faculty
or students. Salary support is available only to Northwestern
faculty and students.
B.
There are separate funds for faculty and students.
C.
The Executive Director can approve Committee recommendations
concerning the reallocation of funds between faculty and
student pools.
II.
Criteria for awarding grants:
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A.
Academic merit |
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Originality
2. Importance
3. Interdisciplinary nature
4. Academic-practice mix |
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B.
Promise
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1.
Likelihood of yielding publishable material
2. Appropriateness for Center working paper series. The grants committee looks particularly favorably on proposals that investigate interpersonal conflicts and disputes. Our focus tends to be psychological. Successful proposals tend to make meaningful contributions to conflict theory. Research that includes conflict as a central issue are generally viewed more favorably than research that includes issues related to conflict only tangentially.
3. Likelihood of generating outside funding (Committee
will look favorably on matching funds or seed money requests)
4. Likelihood of investigators making a contribution
to Center activities |
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C.
Types of support |
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Summer support, if otherwise unavailable; course buyoffs
receive low priority
2. Research participation
3. Remuneration for required support personnel
4. Research support (e.g., hardware, software,
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III.
When to apply:
A.
Regular requests - there will be two cycles per year.
Deadline October; decision October, Deadline April; decision April.
B.
Ad hoc requests - there will be continuous review for
ad hoc requests for emergency funding and special requests
such as travel. (Emergency = research will suffer from funding
delay)
IV.
Application Procedures
Please
note once again that the DRRC accepts grant proposals only
from those affiliated with Northwestern University.
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A.
Regular requests - submit a hard copy to the DRRC or an electronic version via email to:
n-mclaughlin@kellogg.northwestern.edu
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1.
Contents |
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a.
Cover form
(PDF
5 KB / 1 page)
b. Proposal (5 page limit) describing the research
and justifying the request for funds
c. Qualifications of proposer to carry out
the research
d. Budget, including funding priorities, if
appropriate
e. Statement of current or applied-for support
f. Vitae
g. For student proposers - name and telephone
number of a faculty member familiar with student's
work.
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2.
Referee procedure |
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a. There will be three readers, either
the research committee members or outside referees selected
by them.
b. Committee meeting to discuss proposals
c. Short summary of committee's decision for
Executive Director
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1)
Vote, with explanation, if not unanimous
2) Budget modifications, if any
3) Suggested feedback to proposer
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d.
Executive Director actions
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1)
Concurrence - notification to proposer
2) Downward revision - notification to proposer;
justification to Committee
3) Upward revision - notification to Committee,
requires subsequent concurrence of two committee
members
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B.
Ad hoc support requests - submit a hard copy or electronic version via email to
the DRRC assistant. |
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1.
Request and brief justification
2. Recommendation reported to Executive Director
3. Executive Director actions |
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a.
Concurrence - notification to proposer
b. Downward revision - notification to proposer;
justification to Committee
c. Upward revision - notification to Committee,
subsequent concurrence of two committee members.
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V.
Product
In return for DRRC funding, the DRRC would like to have a
working paper from your study. This paper may be a conference
presentation, manuscript submitted to a journal, technical
report, or dissertation abstract. The DRRC does not want you
to write a progress report.
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