Our institution, like many others, has an internal grant
program. While we have been providing this funding for sometime now, we have
never conducted an assessment of how these small grants have been used to
enhance the scholarly and research activities of the recipients – and in
particular the extent to which they have been leveraged for larger external
grant awards. So, I am now beginning to conduct such an assessment –
largely to hopefully show their effectiveness in order to enlarge the pot of
money available for this purpose.
I have identified the awardees for the past five years. I will
now begin to develop a questionnaire that requests information regarding publications,
external grant awards, etc that emerged from these internal grants.
My question to the group – has any one already done
this and, if so, would you be willing to share your questionnaire and/or
results? Thank you.
John
John R. Baumann, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Director, Office of Research Services
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