Research Grants & Awards
Awards
DRRC has longstanding partnerships with the International Academy of Conflict Management (IACM) and the Academy of Management (AOM), two organizations that convene faculty, Ph.D. and postdoctoral fellows to share their knowledge and research.
Current External Award Calls
The DRRC also sponsors two awards within the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management (AOM): the Best Empirical or Theoretical Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award. The recipients of the 2021 Best Empirical or Theoretical Paper Award are Jessica Jae Won Paek (Duke University) and Hemant Kakkar for their paper, "Helping as a Means to Empower or Create Reliance". The recipient of the 2021 Best Student Paper Award is Samuel Skowronek (University of Pennsylvania) for his paper, "The Canonical Deception Paradigms do not Measure Deception".
Past Awards
At the 2019 International Association of Conflict Management’s (IACM) annual conference in Dublin, Ireland, the DRRC sponsored the 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award (completed in 2017 or 2018) was given to Yeonjeong Kim for her article, Special Elections Amendment Forecasting Unethical Behavior Using the Hidden Information Distribution and Evaluation (HIDE) Model. The DRRC also sponsored an IACM pre-conference consortium for Ph.D. students and junior faculty. The goal of this consortium was to connect Ph.D. students and faculty with each other and mid-career and senior scholars. The three-hour consortium consisted of two roundtable sessions. The first session focused on connecting scholars with similar research interests and the second session focused on answering questions about navigating careers (how to write a dissertation, get a job, manage the R&R process, develop mentor relationships). The consortium ended with a panel of senior scholars who answered questions about research and career strategies.
The DRRC also sponsored the Academy of Management Conflict Management Division's awards at their 2019 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. The winner of the Best Student Paper award was Ian Wang for her article, "The Lagged Effects of Customer Mistreatment on Service Failure and Sabotage." The winner of the Best Empirical or Theoretical Paper award was David Maurico Munguia Gomez and Emma Levine for their paper, “Preference Reversals in Equivalent Choices between Individuals and Policies that Affect Individuals.”
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Northwestern Grants Program
DRRC pursues its research mission in part through its research-funding program that is available to Northwestern faculty and students
Below are the guidelines for the DRRC Grant Program. If you are a Northwestern University faculty member, Ph.D. student or postdoctoral fellow and wish to be put on our mailing list for grant proposal forms, please email your request to DRRC@kellogg.northwestern.edu.
DRRC Research Grants are temporarily suspended until further notice.
Who Can Apply
Principal investigators MUST be affiliated with Northwestern University as a full-time faculty member, a graduate student or a postdoctoral fellow during the grant period. Co-investigators do not need to be affiliated with Northwestern University.
Guidelines
DRRC funds empirical research on conflict, broadly construed. We will consider application that examine inter group and intra group processes related to conflict and collaboration. We are open to a variety of methods: experimental, field, modeling, etc. The grants committee looks for several features in a proposal:
- A clear and concise research question and how answering this research question will contribute to understanding conflict
- An outline of the hypotheses and what conflict theory has helped guide this particular research question. In the proposal, the logic and theory need to suggest that the hypotheses are reasonable
- A statement about the proposed source of data and how your proposed data will be manipulated, measured or assessed
Promise
- Likelihood of yielding publishable material
- Likelihood of generating outside funding
- Likelihood of investigators contributing to DRRC’s activities
Support
Funding is expected to range from $1,000 - $5,000. On average, we provide $2,500 per awarded grant.
What is likely to receive support:
- Funds for paying research participants
- Funds for travel necessary for data collection
- Remuneration for required support personnel (e.g., transcribers, research assistants, etc.)
- Essential research support (e.g., hardware, software, communications, supplies, travel, funds for conferences to present research that was funded by DRRC)
What will not receive support:
- Books
- Summer support
- Subsistence funding
Grant Application Procedures
Please submit your application via email to DRRC@kellogg.northwestern.edu.
The contents of your application should include:
- Grant Cover Sheet(PDF)
- Proposal (five-page limit) describing the research and justifying the request for funds. In the proposal, please include:
- A budget, including funding priorities, if appropriate
- A statement of current or applied-for support
- An acknowledgement of support, a brief paragraph written by a faculty co-author or advisor, is required from all graduate student and postdoctoral fellow applicants
- Curriculum vitae (maximum two pages) outlining the qualifications of the grant applicant to carry out the research
Referee procedure:
After at least two reviewers evaluate each proposal, the grant committee meets to finalize the decision. Applicants receive a decision letter with substantive feedback soon after the committee has met (usually within 14 days of the submission date).
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