FASS Research Excellence Awards - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

FASS Research Excellence AwardsOverviewFASS Research Excellence Awards (REA) are to assist with advancing a program of research. The Award can be taken as a one half-credit (0.5 cr) teaching release within 12 months of receiving the Award OR as a research grant equivalent to a 0.5 cr CI stipend that can be applied to research expenses deemed eligible by the Tri-Councils. Up to four such awards may be made each year, depending on the available funding. Please note that these awards are not supported by an endowment or a base budget, and thus depend on the Office of the Dean having discretionary funds available in any given year.Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be a FASS faculty member at the rank of assistant professor or above (in other words, those whose contractual duties include research) AND hold a tenured or tenure-track appointment AND at least 50% of their appointment must be in FASS.

Faculty members holding funded Research Chairs are not eligible, nor are those who will be on leave during the period of the award.

Beginning in 2018, faculty members are eligible to receive a FASS REA once per academic rank.

Eligible faculty can submit applications for the Research Excellence, Teaching Development, Excellence in Teaching and Team Research Award in the same year but can hold only one of these Awards per cycle.

ApplicationsApplications must not exceed five pages and must include:

an outline of the project, indicating its theoretical and/or empirical contribution and its relationship to other work in the field, and a clear statement of what needs to be done;

justification for a teaching release or a budget proposal and justification;

information on other research awards applicable to the project, either currently held or applied for;

for previous FASS REA recipients, a brief statement summarizing the impact of the previous Award on your program of research is required;

a statement confirming the applicant’s intention to take a 0.5 cr teaching release or research grant, if awarded;

if the award is to be taken as a 0.5 cr teaching release, a statement from the chair or director indicating awareness of the application and a willingness to accommodate a teaching release.

A current curriculum vitae must be appended to the application.All parts of the application must be contained in a single file, starting with the application, followed by the applicant’s CV, and if needed, confirmation by Unit’s Chair or Director of their willingness to accommodate a 0.5 cr teaching release. The application package must be emailed to fass.awards@carleton.ca by Tuesday, January 30th, 2025.Applications will be adjudicated by the Executive of the Faculty Board, based on the:

Candidate’s demonstrated record of research excellence, and

Overall quality of the proposed research project

Conditions of the AwardAward winners will be recognized at the FASS annual vin d’honneur celebration. The Award must be applied in the next academic year and recipients must maintain their graduate supervision responsibilities.Award WinnersView FASS Research Excellence Awards Recipients

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