Research
Funding Opportunities
Resources
We provide resources to support both faculty and student research in all stages of development and submission. Let us know how we can help you with your research efforts.
Pre-Award
The center provides the following services for faculty and student research:
- Budget preparation
- Application formatting
- University internal grant processing (including compiling and copying applications)
- Resources/facilities information
- Biosketches, Letters of Support, Human Subject Certification, etc.
- Agency guidelines
- Mock reviews
- Think Tank
- Faculty research groups
- RESPECT
The principal investigator/project director and the pre-award team will collaborate throughout the entire grant development and submission process. In order to submit competitive proposals and maximize potential for success, all grant proposals must be peer reviewed prior to submission.
Post-Award
Post-award services will be provided to faculty researchers who receive externally funded research proposals submitted through the Center for Research and Scholarship. Services are intended to orient faculty and project staff on efficiently and effectively managing projects.
Post-award services include:
- Directing grant personnel to the Institutional Review Board and other research compliance regulatory bodies and resources
- Updating investigators and project managers on changes in university and granting agency expenditure policies and procedures
- Training principal investigators and/or project staff in fiscal budget management and grant administration
- Serving as a resource for project managers
- Directing grant personnel to university policies
- Providing consultation on administrative issues, including budget management, travel, research space, hiring research staff, purchasing, participant incentives, etc.
- Coordinating bi-monthly project manager group meetings
- PI support group
For more information, please contact:
Sara Bourff
sahickey [at] iupui [dot] edu
(317)
274-0053
Biostatistics
The center has a statistician available to consult with faculty on unfunded or underfunded research in the following areas:
- Using the best statistical tests to analyze your data
- Interpreting your analyses
- Presenting your results clearly in manuscripts and presentations
For more information, please contact:
Jingwei Wu
Statistical Consultant
wujw [at] iupui [dot] edu
Yan Zeng
Database Specialist
zeng3 [at] iupui [dot] edu
The center also has a data management service available to consult with faculty researchers. The data manager develops Access and SPSS databases and provides ongoing data management support for unfunded research or smaller grants whose budgets do not provide for data management services.
For more information, please contact:
Michael Weaver, PhD , RN, FAAN
Director, Statistical Services
mtweave [at] iupui [dot] edu
(317)
274-0385
Editing
Our part-time editor assists faculty with grant proposal and manuscript preparation. As a nurse with a PhD in sociology, Dr. Dexter is familiar with health content, research methodology, and statistics.
Phyllis Dexter, PhD, RN
Assistant Scientist and Editor
pdexter2 [at] iupui [dot] edu
(317)
278-1843
