Call for Proposals
Initiative in Population Research 2012 Seed Grant Program Announcement
IPR offers seed grants to nurture research projects that are consistent with IPR’s mission to promote population research at OSU. Multi-disciplinary collaborations are favored, and junior faculty and faculty investigators new to population or health-related research are especially encouraged to apply. The goal is to seed research that would be far less likely to occur otherwise, and proposals will be assessed with this in mind.
Seed grant funds are drawn from our NICHD R24 award. See the reverse for NICHD’s definition of “population science research”. Our R24 center has three thematic areas: family demography; health and health disparities; population distribution. In ranking seed grant applications, priority will be given to research that falls squarely within the defined NICHD/IPR mission. Please discuss with IPR Director Casterline [casterline.10@osu.edu] if you have doubts that your research qualifies.
IPR encourages program projects or groups of related projects, recognizing that the cost of preparing such proposals can be substantial. Faculty with larger projects in mind should discuss in advance with Casterline.
Priority is given to projects that are viewed as having the potential to compete successfully for external awards -- NIH, NSF or other agencies that fund research encompassed by the NICHD/IPR mission. Hence it is expected that seed grants will lead to the preparation of a grant proposal. It is also expected that IPR will receive a portion of the indirects (e.g. 10%-20%) resulting from a successful application for external funding.
Application Format and Deadlines
Open to OSU employees only.
Applications for funding must be submitted using IPR application materials. The application consists of text describing the proposed work (maximum three pages, plus one page for references if required), a cover page, budget page and short vitae. Please contact Jill Morris [morris.856@osu.edu] to request application materials, which include: (1) Cover page template; (2) Budget spreadsheet template; (3) Application instructions and important information and policies.
Allowable expenses under IPR seed grants include: investigator salary (academic year or summer); GRA stipend and tuition; research materials, data acquisition; preliminary analysis (including software development); pilot fieldwork and instrument development; meetings with visitors and shared support for multidisciplinary teams of researchers (including travel expense); consultation with collaborators and experts outside OSU. Most IPR seed grant awards have been in the $15,000 – $30,000 range; requests for substantially larger amounts must present a compelling justification.
All Applications are due by Friday, March 23, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.
This round of seed grant projects will have an Aug 1, 2012 start date. Ordinarily, IPR seed grants are twelve months duration (with an option for no-cost extension). Projects of longer duration are possible; please discuss in advance with IPR Director John Casterline (casterline.10).
Applicants can expect to receive a decision letter around April 18, 2012.
