Age Network Multidisciplinary Research Enhancement Funding
To facilitate multidisciplinary research, the Age Network will support new collaborations among our three supporting units (College of Nursing, College of Public Health and Health Professions and Department of Psychology in CLAS). These funds are to be used to initiate or enhance projects leading to applications for specific external funding. Requests will typically be for $1,000 to $5,000 but may be up to $10,000. The funds may be used as top up funds to existing studies or for a new pilot study. Any faculty member in the three supporting units may be the principal investigator, and at least one co-investigator must be from one of the other supporting units.
Please email your request in PDF or Word format to Dr. Beverly
Roberts (robertsb@ufl.edu)
Funding is available immediately, and deadlines for these requests are
the first of each month. Funding decisions will be made by the
end of the month that the request was submitted. The number of
enhancements funded will depend on the monies available.
A maximum four page description of what is proposed, how the funds will
be spent, and plans for external funding submission, should be
submitted.. Once we have reviewed your project, we will likely
contact you to clarify specific aspects of your request. The
narrative (maximum three pages) should include
- The topic and why it is important
- Brief summary of how you plan to study it
- Innovation or novelty involved in the proposed work
- Brief summary of investigators' expertise to conduct the project
- List of multidisciplinary participants and their contributions to the project
- Budget and justification. Funds may not be used for faculty support.
An additional section (maximum one page) should address:
- What the expected fundability of the research is, and evidence to support this claim.
- Specific plans to leverage external funding
- Investigator's proposed timeline to an external grant submission.
