FRC Outcomes-based Community Research Fellowship Program

The Faculty Research Consortium (FRC) is proud to announce a new 24-month Fellowship program for full-time tenured or tenure-track St. John’s University faculty for Outcomes-based Community Research conducted through a Vincentian lens, starting in the Fall of 2024.

The program will involve a combination of in-person, asynchronous and synchronous training sessions that will focus on research design and idea development. Year 1 of the FRC Fellowship will focus on training and mentoring support to facilitate the Fellow’s development of a mission-aligned community research project, while Year 2 of the FRC Fellowship will be dedicated to the execution of the research project and planning for presentation of the research and associated scholarship.  A centralized Canvas course resource page will provide content for the program, along with a discussion board to be used by all Fellows. Fellows will receive a $1,000 stipend upon completion of the program and up to $1,500 for their research project needs/implementation (not including travel). 

The FRC and this new Fellowship program support research embodied in the St John’s University Mission, emphasizing research which explores and attempts to identify new methods and strategies to help the economically impoverished and those with limited financial resources.

If accepted into the program, Fellows will be asked to commit to meeting 1-2 times per month in Academic Year 2024-2025, with research execution and presentation/scholarship plans identified in Academic Year 2025-2026 at a SJU research event.

Training topics will include:

• Orientation to the Catholic and Vincentian mission of St. John’s University and its application to community-engaged research.
• Research transition from social justice to community outcomes-based research: How to identify an outcomes evaluation question?
• Intervention research methods and project timelines
• Identifying and working with a community partner (e.g., conducting a partner’s needs assessment)
• Institutional Review Board (IRB) application and submission process, including human subjects training and informed consent
• Power analyses to determine participant numbers and statistical analyses for outcomes-based research
• Selecting reliable and valid measures of improvement directly related to the chosen intervention under study
• Grant writing and potential areas of funding support
• Social entrepreneurship
• Presentation and scholarship opportunities (e.g. the Journal of Vincentian Social Action)

Recipients