Limited Submission Internal Deadline: Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics

Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals

Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics

UNC Internal deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, August 17, 2020           

 

*Please distribute to relevant faculty*

Key Dates

UNC Internal Deadline: UNC Internal deadline: 11:59PM, Monday, August 17, 2020

Greenwall Letter of Intent Deadline: September 21, 2020

Invited Full Application Deadline: January 11, 2021

Important Information

• Only one applicant from a university or non-profit research institute will be considered in each application cycle.

Award Information

The award supports 50 percent of a Scholar’s salary plus benefits for three years, up to the NIH salary cap, with 10 percent institutional costs for the salary and benefits. This funding is intended to ensure that at least 50 percent of the Scholar’s time is devoted to bioethics research. In addition, the Foundation provides $5,000 each year for limited project support and travel (no indirect costs are provided for these items).

Program Description

 

The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. It supports research that goes beyond current work in bioethics to help resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice, and creates a community that enhances future bioethics research by Scholars and Alumni/ae.

Faculty Scholars will be selected on the basis of their achievements, the strength of their research project, their commitment to the field of bioethics, and support from their home institution, including after the end of this award. While the amount and quality of an applicant’s research in bioethics will count favorably towards his/her application, outstanding candidates with less direct experience in bioethics will also be considered when their proposed work aims to advance the bioethics field.

Within this group, priority will be given to applicants whose research addresses innovative ideas and/or emerging topics. Lower priority will be given to applicants who are primarily carrying out educational reform or theoretical work with limited applicability to practice, research, or policy. The Greenwall Foundation particularly welcomes applicants from backgrounds that are under-represented in bioethics and academia.

The Foundation does not fund:

• Scholars to carry out bioethics teaching, institutional change, or quality improvement on bioethics issues. We expect, however, that Greenwall Faculty Scholars, and the students they teach, will do such activities during their careers.
• Theoretical ethics research without clear application to pressing, real-world problems in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice.
• Survey research or qualitative research that touches on a bioethics issue unless there is a strong conceptual analysis of the bioethics issue or thoughtful analysis of the bioethics implications of the empirical findings. We are, however, interested in bioethics researchers who want to work on conceptual or normative analyses linked to their empirical findings.
• Basic science research that has implications for a bioethics issue.
• Bioethics work directed towards predetermined conclusions.

Eligibility

Applicants must be junior faculty members at a university or non-profit research institute that has tax-exempt status in the United States. Applicants must hold a faculty appointment (or other long-term research position outside a university) that allows at least 50 percent of their effort to perform research (often this is a faculty position with at least a 60 percent appointment in a tenure-track position or its equivalent). Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet been considered for tenure or an equivalent promotion; whose research will have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice; and who will make important contributions to the field of bioethics over their careers.

To Apply

Submit the following (in ONE .pdf) with subject line “Greenwall 2020 Submission” to the Limited Submissions Team at Limited_Submissions@unc.edu by 11:59pm Monday, August 17, 2020

1. Three-page Letter of Intent (single-spaced, one-inch margins, 12-point font) that includes:
   • A description of the research proposal, particularly its significance.
   • How the research will be carried out and how it is likely to have an impact on clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy, and practice.
   • A personal statement describing the applicant’s goals in the field of bioethics.
2. A curriculum vitae (no more than five single-spaced pages) in NIH biosketch format
3. Names of three internal (to UNC) experts who could speak knowledgeably about the candidate’s research and potential as part of an internal review panel.
   • Please do not include the names of faculty named on the project, chairs, deans, directors, direct reports or others who have a conflict of interest
   • Please notify all potential internal reviewers before submitting the pre-proposal packet to ORD

 

UNC-CH Recipients

Mara  Buchbinder  (class  of  2018);  Anne  Lyerly  (class  of  2007  while  at Duke);  and  Jonathan  Oberlander  (class  of  2005).  The  full  list  of  Scholars  and  their  research  project descriptions are accessible here: https://greenwall.org/faculty-scholars-program/our-faculty-scholars

Additional Information

Please view the link below for information regarding the Faculty Scholars Program LOI criteria.

Details of the programs, including eligibility requirements are provided at the following URL: https://greenwall.org/faculty-scholars-program/scholars-rfp-2020-1

Please contact the Limited Submissions Team with questions at Limited_Submissions@unc.edu.

 

 

 

Limited Submissions Team

Office of Research Development

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

308 Bynum Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

(919) 962-7503