The Office of Research in Education (ORE) receives an annual allocation of $100,000 from the Dean’s Office to support the Research Infrastructure Support Services program. In July 2016, this program was put on hold to allow the Associate Dean for Research and the Dean’s Advisory Committee for Research (DACR) to review the Faculty’s needs and consult with colleagues to ensure that these funds are optimally used to support faculty research. The revised RISS program is described below. Please note that these guidelines may be further revised in response to emerging research opportunities and needs.
RISS Program Objectives:
The goal of the Research Infrastructure Support Services (RISS) Program is to provide Education faculty members (with grant/tenure or grant/tenure track appointments as Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor) with the infrastructure support they need to pursue excellent research as defined by the disciplines represented within the departments and school. The RISS program complements competitive external research grants and internal seed funding by supporting activities that are typically ineligible for support from these sources.
Application Instructions:
- • Applications for RISS are due on April 5th, 2019 and October 4th, 2019
- • Please submit requests well in advance of the proposed activity as funding is limited
- • Application forms may be found here: http://ore.educ.ubc.ca/research/riss-program/
- • Due to the number of funds available, applicants are limited to one funded request per academic year
- • Applicants can request between $500 to $10,000. Note the adjudication criteria below with regard to budget requests being realistic (an example of a $10,000 application might be for UBC matching funds to go towards an SSHRC Partnership Development Grant).
- • Requests must be well justified and supporting documentation should be provided where appropriate. For instance, a request for editorial support should be accompanied by evidence of what costs are, and are not, supported by the publisher (e.g. a book contract).
- • Please submit proposals by email to Education Research
