Research Funding Opportunities

External Funding Opportunities:

Internal Funding Opportunities: 

Small Grant Requests to advance rural research

Small Grant Requests to advance rural research may be submitted by SON faculty and faculty affiliated with the RHCRC to the Rural Health Care Research Center’s Executive Committee at anytime.

Application: Submit requests by email to Cassandra Christmas, Administrative Coordinator,
RHCRC

Have an idea? Contact an executive committee member (Ivy Hinton, Emily Hauenstein, Pam Kulbok, Sharon Utz, Barbara Parker or Beth Merwin) if you would like feedback on your idea and
assistance with your request.


University of Virginia, School of Nursing, Rural Health Care Research Center Dissertation Awards for Rural Research.

Purpose: The goal of this award program is to stimulate the development of new researchers prepared to conduct rural health care research aimed towards improving the health or health care of rural individuals or communities.

Eligibility: PhD students in the School of Nursing may request funds to support dissertation research conducted with rural individuals and/or rural communities. Students interested in obtaining funds will submit an abstract of their research as well as justification for requested funds.

Applications: Applications may be submitted at anytime to Cassandra Christmas (cec5m@virginia.edu). 

Funds: Students may request up to $1000. Monies may be used to pay research participants, transcribe taped interviews, and to defer travel costs. The student would agree to use the rural demographic questionnaire (if applicable), developed by the Rural Health Care Research Center, and recognize the support of the Center (including grant name and number) in resulting publications and presentations.

Funds remaining following dissertation defense will return to the main fund.

University of Virginia, School of Nursing, Community Based Research grants

Community Based Research grants are available to support students conducting research projects that apply academic skills, experiences, and ideas to community problems. Student researchers work collaboratively with a faculty advisor and a community partner. Awards are up to $3,000 (individual undergraduate researcher) or up to $5,000 (graduate and undergraduate research pair) to be used within one year.
Applicants submit a research proposal, a budget, project timeline, letters of recommendation from faculty member and community partner, and an unofficial transcript. Further information and application forms are available from the Office of University Community Partnerships, http://www.virginia.edu/provost/public/research.html.
Applications are due at noon on Friday, February 27, 2009.
Please address any questions to Megan Raymond, meganr@virginia.edu, or Lucy Russell, director of the Center for Undergraduate Excellence, lsr2n@virginia.edu.

University of Virginia, School of Nursing, Community Based Research grants

Community Based Research grants are available to support students conducting research projects that apply academic skills, experiences, and ideas to community problems. Student researchers work collaboratively with a faculty advisor and a community partner. Awards are up to $3,000 (individual undergraduate researcher) or up to $5,000 (graduate and undergraduate research pair) to be used within one year.
Applicants submit a research proposal, a budget, project timeline, letters of recommendation from faculty member and community partner, and an unofficial transcript. Further information and application forms are available from the Office of University Community Partnerships, http://www.virginia.edu/provost/public/research.html.
Applications are due at noon on Friday, February 27, 2009.
Please address any questions to Megan Raymond, meganr@virginia.edu, or Lucy Russell, director of the Center for Undergraduate Excellence, lsr2n@virginia.edu.