Faculty Research Consortium (FRC) Grant for Research Support of Tenured Faculty at St. John’s University

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Application Deadline: February 23, 2024
Grant Period: June 1, 2024–May 31, 2025

Faculty Research Consortium (FRC) Grant Application

Faculty Research Consortium (FRC) Grant

Established in 2019, the FRC Grant supports community-based outcomes research for full-time tenured faculty at St. John’s University. This research may be from any discipline, with the specific aim of improving the areas of poverty and social justice.

Purpose of Grant

The purpose of this grant is to support tenured faculty who are planning to develop or replicate interventions and test their efficacy. This research may be from any discipline, with the specific aim of directly addressing mission-related poverty and/or social justice problems. These interventions can be educational, psychological, economic, etc. Given the complexity of intervention research, this may be an opportunity to collect pilot data for a larger trial.  

The FRC particularly welcomes applications from tenured faculty who have developed a community partner collaboration and who are now looking to embed/enhance an outcomes evaluation to address a clearly articulated research question(s). The FRC will place grant award priority on applications that identify a sound research question and appropriate methodology to address the question during the grant period. Lastly, the role of the FRC is to provide guidance to grant awardees, including guidance with enhancing research methodology and plans for statistical analysis.

Eligibility

Full-time tenured faculty at St. John’s University are eligible to apply for this grant. Applicants can be individual or collaborative; the principal investigator must be a tenured faculty member.    

Grant Award Amount (Grant period: June 1, 2024–May 31, 2025) 

$5,000

Application Deadline

The application deadline is February 23, 2024. All applications and supporting materials should be submitted online through the application portal. Click here to submit an application.

Questions

For any questions on this grant opportunity, please contact Kara A. James, Senior Secretary, at [email protected] or 718-990-5947.

Award Notification Date

The FRC Grant is a competitive, application-based award. Awardees will be notified of the decision on their application/proposal by April 1, 2024.

Criteria for Grant Proposals

  • Empirical question being asked is related to intervention outcomes

  • Proposal must clearly outline the specific aims and hypotheses, research design, participants, measures, intervention, and statistical methods including power analysis/sample size, timeline, and budget

  • Show feasibility (e.g., by including a letter of commitment from community partners) 

  • Include description of current internal/external funding for the project (if applicable) 

To be considered for the grant, submit the following information and documentation through this form: 

  • Cover page
     

  • Abstract
    Summary of the proposed project in 200 words or less
     

  • Proposal

    In 3-5 pages, provide specific information on the proposed research project. Please use the areas below to guide your submission: 

    1.     Background and significance (i.e., theory and/or previous research)

    2.     Specific aims and hypotheses

    3.     Research design

    4.     Participants (including power analysis when relevant)

    5.     Measures (including description of reliability and validity)

    6.     Proposed intervention

    7.     Statistical methods

    8.     Projected dissemination of outcomes

    9.     Timeline (including IRB submission)

    10.  Detailed budget (including personnel, supplies, equipment, conference presentation travel only, etc.)
     

  • Funding Guidelines
    Grant recipients must conform to the University guidelines on purchasing when using funds. Grant funding cannot be used for transportation, donations, contribution to existing programs or gifts, or anything not specified in the approved application or pre-approved by the FRC.  

  • Provide a report each semester for the duration of the project (a template will be provided to grant recipients) for review by the FRC 

  • Participate or present during St. John’s University Research Month (April 2025)

  • Submit a final report upon completion of the project (September 1, 2025)

  • Submit an article for publication to VISA’s Journal of Vincentian Social Action (http://scholar.stjohns.edu/jovsa/) or an appropriate journal to the researcher’s discipline (December 1, 2025)

  • Acknowledge the support of The Faculty Research Consortium Grant through the Vincentian Institute for Social Action at St. John’s University in all papers and presentations relating to this project. 

For additional information, please contact:

Kara A. James, Senior Secretary 
Vincentian Institute for Social Action 
Lourdes Hall  
718-990-5947
[email protected]