Program Description
The CCAS Enhanced Travel Awards program, launched in spring 2014, is intended to facilitate increased faculty participation in conferences and research activities, especially those that might involve extensive travel. The Dean’s office anticipates making up to 30 new CCAS Enhanced Travel Awards available annually, in the amount of $2,500 each.
The 2022 Enhanced Travel Awards will be offered in a single competition, with funds to be fully expended and processed by June 30th 2023.
Deadline: Applications must be submitted in Infoready by 4:00pm EST on November 28th 2022.
Eligibility & Application Procedure
Any regular faculty (either tenure-line faculty or contract faculty who have contractual responsibility for teaching, research and service) budgeted to CCAS may apply. Faculty holding a Dean’s Research Chair Award may not simultaneously hold an Enhanced Travel Award.
Submit application materials in one PDF file through InfoReady. Note that the description of the proposed project and the budget and justification are limited to one page in length each. The list of current and pending awards should detail all current external and internal funding whether directly related to project or not, so has no length limit. Pages should have at least 1” margins on all sides, and be no smaller than 11 point font. The file should be named in the format Travel_LastName.pdf, and contain the following items:
1. Cover page with: Faculty Name, Department, Academic Rank, and Proposal Title.
2. Limited to 1 page: Description of proposed project to be presented at a conference OR description of research project that involves extensive travel. It is essential that this:
- justifies how this conference presentation or research activity will enhance your research/scholarship and describe the expected outcome/product;
- justifies why this research/travel cannot be funded by other sources (especially important where the faculty member has existing intramural or extramural funding); and
- EITHER, for conference travel:
- details the nature of the presentation to be supported (plenary / parallel; invited / contributed); and
- why it is important to attend this specific conference.
- OR for research travel:
- explains the criticality of the travel to your scholarship/research.
3. No longer than 1 page: A brief itemized budget, including name, date, and location of conference to be attended OR place and time where research activities will be carried out. The budget justification should clearly detail, if applicable, why this travel cannot be completed using any currently held intramural or extramural support.
4. A list of ALL current and pending intramural and extramural support, regardless of its relationship to the proposed travel, including award period, funding source, and title of award. There is no page limit on Current and Pending Support. If the faculty member does not have current or pending support, that should be clearly stated. Finally, if the faculty member also intends to apply for an Impact Award, this should be noted and the relationship between the applications explained in Current and Pending Support.
N.B. The Infoready application portal requests a brief abstract of the proposal. This will be used purely to help allocate appropriate reviewers and will not form part of the proposal review.
Review Process
The applications will be reviewed by a committee of the CCAS Research Advisory Council, which consists of three faculty from each academic division, potentially augmented by ad hoc additional members. This committee will review application packages and make recommendations to the Dean.
Notification of Decisions
The Dean will make all efforts to notify applicants of the funding decisions by the end of the Fall 2022 semester.
Assessment Criteria For Enhanced Scholarly Travel
a) For research travel: criticality and appropriateness of this specific travel to immediate research need - 30%
- Travel is essential to the immediate progress of the PIs research.
AND / OR
- Travel support is timely and essential in order to leverage other fellowships and / or opportunities afforded the PI to their fullest extent.
OR for conference travel: level of presentation and impact of travel - 30%
- The conference selected is reasonable and appropriate for the planned research gains (e.g.. small specialist workshop for deepening and developing work or understanding in a new field, or broader high profile conference to publicize work, whole funding is under review, etc.)
- The level of presentation is appropriate to the identified purpose and will give reasonable reputational gain for the PI / GW
b) Impact of travel on broader scholarly research - 30%
- Travel need is placed in broader context of PIs research and scholarship.
- Travel provides significant enhancement of scholarly reputation / research progress / possibility of funding success core to the broader program of faculty’s scholarship.
c) Justification of need for support (using information from the current and pending support list and the project narrative) - 25%
- There is no other source of funding available
OR
- This would be an extension of / complementary to existing sources of funding
d) Reasonableness of Budget - 15%
- Is the budget reasonable and well-justified?
Other Considerations
- In cases where the faculty member has other extramural and / or intramural support, the committee will review the application package to determine if the proposed travel is clearly separate from the already supported efforts.
- Preference will be given to faculty members without other sources of support.
- Applications which do not follow the formatting guidelines or fail to adhere to the single-page limits for the narrative and budget outlined above may be rejected without review.
