- Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy
- Funding Opportunities
- Proposal or Pilot Grant
- Student Affiliate
PoP Grant for Student Affiliates
The Proposal or Pilot (PoP) Grant is designed to assist CISLL graduate student affiliates in three ways:
- Aid in the collection of pilot data for dissertations, theses and other large-scale projects that are part of a student's program of research.
- Aid in the collection of pilot data to strengthen a grant proposal to support a dissertation or thesis, and/or
- Provide the student with a guided experience of writing a grant and conducting research.
These PoP Grants are intended to help students on specific research projects that are in an early stage.
Award Eligibility
Requirements
- Be pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree.
- Be a student affiliate of CISLL.
- Have a CISLL affiliate faculty member who will mentor them throughout this process.
Award
Award amounts may vary depending on project need, with a maximum amount per award of $1,500. PoP Grant award monies may be used for costs related (but not limited) to conducting a pilot study, attending workshops on seeking external funding, or traveling to research conferences. Note that no equipment can be purchased with these funds. Please direct inquiries about the allowability of specific expenditures to cisll@niu.edu.
Note: All funds awarded for the CISLL PoP Grant must be spent by May 31 of the academic year in which the grant was awarded.
Expectations
All awardees will be expected to:
- Share an informal report of progress including empirical findings at the CISLL annual Reading Day retreat in the academic year following the year of the award. If presentation at the retreat is impossible due to conflicts, awardees will be required to present their project with CISLL in some form during the academic year following the year of the award, e.g., at our fall/spring Show and Share events.
- Be interviewed for our podcast, CISLL Presents: A Language and Literacy Podcast.
- Submit a final report on project by the beginning of the academic year following the year of the award.
Committee Review
The PoP Grant Committee will review applications based on the following criteria:
- Importance of the project including its purpose and significance/broader impact.
- Methodological rigor of the research plan.
- Potential for dissemination of the associated scholarship.
- Relevance to CISLL’s mission.
- Feasibility of completing the project in the stated time period and relevance of the budget request to the stated objectives.
- Interdisciplinary team proposals will receive special consideration.
- Applications will be rank-ordered by the committee. Funding will be allocated in rank order based on the committees' recommendations until the maximum amount the CISLL budget has designated for these PoP Grants has been committed. Any future proposals for external funding following receipt of this award must list CISLL as an interdisciplinary unit associated with the project.
Application Submission and Deadline
A completed application must be submitted to cisll@niu.edu by 11:59 p.m on the final Friday in September. Decisions will be announced in mid-October. Applications for the CISLL Student PoP Grant are limited to three pages, single-spaced, with one-inch margins, and no smaller than a 12-point font. Applications must include the following:
- A brief statement of the purpose of the project
- A brief narrative that describes the project (methodology, analyses, broader impact)
- The anticipated outcomes of the project (e.g., thesis, dissertation, or grant proposals)
- The contribution to the mission of CISLL and your scholarly or career goals
- An anticipated timeline for completion of this project
- An itemized budget of expenses associated with developing the project
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