CYFS Research Fellowship Program
Applications Due: April 17, 2015
Start Date: August 17, 2015
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools (CYFS) together with the College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) Office of Research is pleased to announce the Research Fellowship Program (RFP), intended and committed to support the continued advancement of research and grant-directed activities among faculty and faculty affiliates. The RFP is intended to provide an “in-house professional leave” for faculty who have made measurable progress on a dedicated program of research, and who are in need of additional time and support to elevate their work by broadening it in both depth and breadth. Specifically, the emphasis will be on assisting faculty fellows make qualitative shifts in their research through the investment of dedicated time and substantial resources. The fellowship experience will provide planned and defined opportunities to engage in a research-rich interdisciplinary environment with colleagues and potential research partners. The intended outcome is to enhance the scope and quality of fellows’ research agendas/portfolios, and position faculty for successful grant development, submission and securement. This is accomplished by advancing and extending (scaling up) fellows’ current work in qualitatively distinctive ways, resulting in competitive, funded grant applications and creating broader impact and productivity.
The CYFS Research Fellowship Program will secure faculty mentorship, time and resources for intensive research activities. To ensure these objectives can be met, selection of fellows will be based in large part on the presence of fully-developed research ideas and evidence of progress toward research aims with the intent of scaling up. Each year, one or two Research Fellows will be selected.
If interested, please discuss this with your department chair, and submit appropriate materials to Sue Sheridan (ssheridan2@unl.edu) by April 17. If you have any questions, contact Sue by email or phone (402-472-6941).
Detailed information and an application form are available at http://go.unl.edu/9bdf.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/9bdf