DAVID CAUL GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANT

Call for Submissions : August 1 - September 15, 2010

This grant is designed to support research that is primarily concerned with dissociation or closely related topics.  Graduate students and undergraduate honors students are eligible to apply for grants up to $1500.  Please note that grants for projects less than $1500 are also encouraged.
 
For consideration, the Applicant must fulfill the following criteria:
 
(1) The Applicant must be either a) a graduate student (in a Masters, PsyD, or PhD program) in psychology, psychiatry, social work, or related fields; b) an undergraduate psychology honors student or c) a resident in psychiatry.
 
(2) The proposed research must be primarily concerned with dissociation or closely related topics.
 
(3) The Applicant must submit a completed research proposal. The application will consist of: (a) an applicant information cover sheet (completed online); (b) a research overview page (completed online); (c) a 1000 word maximum summary of the proposed research presenting the rationale, aims and hypotheses, research design, and procedures; (d) a proposed budget for the grant indicating the amount requested and how funds would be spent; (e) a brief description, attached to the budget, of why the grant will be essential to performance of the project; (f) CVs from both the applicant and his or her Faculty Supervisor; (g) a letter of support from the primary faculty member overseeing the research that addresses the applicant's ability to carry out the proposed research (this letter can be submitted independently by the faculty member); and (h) (where applicable) letters of support from recruitment sites.
 
(4) The research proposal must be approved by the Applicant's graduate faculty supervisor as submitted. If an award is made and the project is substantially changed, the Committee must be notified of that fact as soon as possible. If the revised protocol appears to change resource needs, then the Committee may perform an ad hoc review of the revised project to assure that the award remains justified.
 
(5) Before grant funds can be distributed, the Applicant must provide certification that the research proposal has been granted approval by the Institutional Review Board or other Ethics oversight committee of his or her educational institution. If research is to be conducted outside the educational institution, then certifications must be provided to the committee for each site.
 
Proposals will be evaluated on a number of dimensions, including: the relevance and importance of the research question to the field of dissociation, originality, feasibility, quality of the aims/hypotheses, how well the methodology addresses the research question, whether the budget is justified given the research design, and the overall quality of the proposal.
 
Awards announcement letters will be sent out in late September or early October and announced at the 2010 ISSTD Conference in Atlanta, GA.
 
For questions, please contact Dr. Courtenay Cavanaugh or Dr. Eric Vermetten.

Click here to access the application instructions and form.


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