Building Bridges: Using Different Levels of Seed Funding to Accelerate Interdisciplinary Research

Last updated March 11, 2019

Course Length

54m

Last Updated

March 11, 2019

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Building Bridges: Using Different Levels of Seed Funding to Accelerate Interdisciplinary Research

Last updated March 11, 2019

Table of Contents

Introduction
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Why Should We Foster Interdisciplinary Research?
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Seed Funding Programs at Southern Methodist University
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Seed Funding Programs at UNC Chapel Hill
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Get your interdisciplinary research projects off the ground by expanding seed funding options at your institution.

Overview

Interdisciplinary research projects tend to be more competitive for external funding and hold potential for high-impact results, but fostering these research projects can be rather challenging, especially in a resource-constrained environment.

One way to advance interdisciplinary research is to use seed funding mechanisms, smaller scale appropriations intended to make research projects more competitive before attempting to win external funding. Figuring out the best seed funding approach based on your budget is key. There are a number of ways you can use any budget amount to foster interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty.

Join us for this 60-minute webcast to hear how two speakers, from two distinct institutions, have used various levels of seed funds in creative and tiered ways to fuel interdisciplinary research efforts.

Who should attend?

This webcast is well-suited for anyone trying to accelerate interdisciplinary research on their campus, including but not limited to, research administration and research development professionals, deans and VPs of research, and directors of research institutes and centers.

Agenda

In this webcast, our speakers will discuss the following points:

  • How interdisciplinary research can benefit your institution
  • How two different schools are using seed funding to further interdisciplinary research efforts (from little to no money up to the $100,000 level)
    • Faculty partnerships
    • Research clusters
    • Fellow seminars
    • Seed funding competitions
    • Grand challenges
  • Outcomes, returns, and benefits of seed funding projects

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Portrait of Nathan Blouin

Nathan Blouin

Director, Office of Research Development, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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Portrait of Caroline Brettell

Caroline Brettell, Ph.D.

Cultural Anthropologist, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University

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