Possible Research Group Activities:
The program does not prescribe any activities for research teams. Such activities should be proposed by each team solely on the basis of what will best facilitate the team's research goals. However, preference will generally be given to proposals for which the requested funding will support a series of networking activities over the term of the grant, rather than supporting one meeting or conference. For illustrative purposes only, proposed activities may include one or more of the following:
- An annual or semiannual meeting of the team in which members can discuss initial drafts of papers.
- A more formal topic research symposium, where the team invites other scholars to consider the current state of scholarship relative to the theme.
- A panel of presenters at an annual meeting of an academic proportion.
- A pilot study, which may lead to publication and plans for a more amitious collaborative project.
- A public conference (partially funded by the grant), to which the team could invite other scholars having in interest in the theme. This may lead to an edited volume of essays or a dedicated issue of a journal.
The proposed budget should include line items for each proposed activity, and may also include funding for faculty-release time and involvement of students, if deemed apprpriate.
Reports:
The three-year term of the grant shall run from May 1, 2009 through May 1, 2012. Progress reports shall be sent electronically to Harold Heie (
hheie@orangecitycomm.net) and to Meredith Duncan (
mduncan@cccu.org) by May 1, 2010 and May 1, 2011. These narrative reports shall include:
- Brief descriptions of the activities that have been carried out under the grant during the past year.
- A report on any dissemination of scholarly results to the academic community that has taken place during the past year. Please provide complete documentation of all forms of dissemination to the academic community (with proper citations for all published articles or books, and names, dates, and locations for all conferences/seminars at which papers are read).
- A cumulative report on expenditures of grant funds to date.
Upon completion of the grant period on May 1, 2012, a final narrative report shall be sent electronically to Harold Heie and to Meredith Duncan. It shall include a cumulative report on activities, dissemination of results and expenditures for the three year term of the grant, in addition to:
- A self-assessment of the extent to which the grant facilitated completion on the initial projected research plan.
- A projection of future scholarly work by team members that will build on the scholarship completed during the grant period.