FPI Dissertation Grant

FAMILY PROCESS INSTITUTE DISSERTATION GRANT

Background:
One grant of up to $2,000 will be awarded to a doctoral candidate to support dissertation research. Applicants may propose projects with smaller budgets. Doctoral candidates may be in varied areas of scholarship (e.g., marriage and family therapy, social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing). Grants will propose scholarship in broad areas of (a) theory development, (b) advancement of diversity issues, (c) intervention development, and (d) theory or treatment testing. All proposals will advance the Family Process Institute mission.
Family Process Institute Mission Statement: “Family Process Institute is an independent, multidisciplinary, transnational organization dedicated to the development and exchange of new theory, research, applied practice, and policy related to families and systems.”
Proposals will be due September 1, 2011. Proposals will be reviewed and scored by a Committee of the Family Process Institute comprised by three members. Proposals will be scored by November 15, 2011. Projects will have a start date of January 1, 2011 and will need to be completed by December 31, 2011.
Eligibility Requirements:
–    Applicants must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program and must be in good standing. Both of these can be documented in a letter from the students’ dissertation chair and/or department head that states that the student is in good standing in the program, and that he/she is currently enrolled.
–    Applicants have successfully proposed their dissertation research. Evidence can be included in the letter from the chair and/or by including the signed proposal cover page.
Proposals:
–    Will include a statement of the problem, a brief literature review, a plan for the research, and a data analysis plan (if appropriate).
–    Must include the expected deliverables (e.g., presentations, publications, larger grant proposals).
–    Are expected to explicitly address how the research addresses the FPI mission.
–    Will be no longer than 5-8 pages in length.
Grant Recipient Responsibilities:
–    There is a minimum expectation that applicants will submit the results of their research to present at a regional, national, or international conference. Most applicants are expected to submit a manuscript for publication. Awardees who do not meet minimal expectations may be required to return the grant funding.
–    An acknowledgement of funding source is expected in the dissertation as well as any publications resulting from the research.
–    Final report due February 1, 2013. The final report includes
o    Important findings and a statement about impact. If a manuscript has been published, that can be turned in instead of this section.
o    Evidence of IRB approval where applicable.
o    Dissemination efforts and outcomes. Specifically, reports will include references for a completed dissertation, a published or submitted manuscript, or a conference presentation (an abstract, if under review; a copy of the PPT if delivered). Conference,  manuscript submissions, or completed dissertation will include evidence (e.g., letter from editor acknowledging receipt of manuscript)
o    A financial report of expenditures (specify allowable cost on proposal cover page; e.g., travel, GRA , analyses, consultant).
Allowable costs:
–    Payment to participants
–    Hourly research assistance
–    Statistical or methodological consultation
–    Software, allowable if specialized and project specific (e.g., N6 for qualitative research)
–    Travel related to conducting study
–    Subject assessment costs (e.g., lab tests, specialized computer assessments, copyrighted assessment tools, blinded scoring of tapes).

PLEASE SEND COMPLETED APPLICATION TO:
Dr. Melanie Domenech Rodriguez [melanie.domenech@usu.edu]
SUBJECT :  FAMILY PROCESS BOARD EARLY SCHOLARS GRANT AWARDS INITIATIVE