STG Faculty Grant Call for Proposals
Application Guidelines
To apply for an STG faculty grant, you should fill out the application form cover sheet and submit it to STG, along with a detailed project proposal. Proposals should be no longer than five pages and should cover the following:
- the project's content and goals
- the role of technology in achieving the project's aims
- practical requirements of the project (equipment, labor, time-line)
To assist faculty in formulating their proposals, STG staff will be available for one-on-one consulting during spring semester. To sign up for a meeting, please come to the general information session (several weeks before the application deadline), or contact STG at 863-7231 or STG_info@brown.edu.
Each faculty grant award will cover STG consulting and implementation, and may include some additional production costs, such as data or software, as resources permit. Funding for the faculty grants program comes from CIS through STG's budget. The grants are primarily intended to cover STG staff time and the costs of production for the project (for instance, transcription or conversion of data). Faculty release time or travel is not covered; neither are student assistants who are not employed and managed by STG.
STG collaborates with the Brown Library's Center for Digital Initiatives to ensure that materials created for use in faculty grant projects are digitized and catalogued according to current metadata standards. STG and the CDI work together closely to encourage digital projects that make use of materials in Brown's special collections. The CDI will provide digitization for any Brown library materials used, and the resulting project materials may become part of the Brown Digital Library if appropriate.
In previous years, we have worked on topics in history of art and architecture, corpora of inscriptions, music, literary studies, scholarly bibliography and history. The projects have taken the form of historical databases, digital publication of research, and consultations on conducting research with digital tools. Examples of Faculty Grant Projects from previous years can be found at in the Faculty Grant Projects section of our Projects page. Information on Faculty Grant Projects currently in progress is also available.
Projects will ordinarily begin in the late summer or fall following notification and run for approximately one year. Faculty engaged in longer-term projects should not hesitate to apply; the faculty grant project can serve as a prototype for further funding from external funding agencies.
During or after a project, STG can help write external proposals to fund the continuation of a project, and also continue to participate in the project, if appropriate. STG faculty grants can also be paired with other sources of research funding. Faculty are encouraged to apply for a Richard B. Salomon faculty research award, administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, and to the UTRA program, which administered by the Dean of the College.
The faculty grant selection committee will be made up of one representative each from the faculty, the Dean of the Faculty, STG, CDI, and CIS.
If you are thinking of submitting a proposal, please attend the general information session that is held each year at the start of the application process, at STG. Individual meetings to discuss draft proposals can also be scheduled at that time. If you are unable to attend, please contact us to schedule a meeting.
| General information drop-in session at STG (169 Angell St.) | 15 April 2008 (1-4 pm) |
| Individual consultations with STG staff | April |
| Proposals due | 2 May 2008 |
| Notification to grant recipients | 30 May 2007 |