2022 Call for Fellows

ARIS Center Fellowship Program 2022

The submission deadline was Sept. 30. No submissions are currently being accepted.

Purpose and Description

The ARIS fellows program is for professionals, researchers, faculty, educators, graduate students and others working to advance research impact practice. The goal of the program is to increase the quality and availability of scholarship and resources about research impacts through two types of projects. We support projects that: 1) synthesize existing scholarly work to package evidence into easily applied and digestible tools for the research community to improve research-impacts design and practice; and/or 2) small-scale innovative scholarship that explores new horizons and advances knowledge about research impact practices. Both types of projects require recipients to create products such as guidance documents, white papers, scholarly articles, decision support tools, multimedia supports, instructive videos, or other creative or scholarly outputs. Fellows are provided three types of support over the course of approximately one year:

  1. Participation in a community of fellows working to advance research impacts;
  2. Peer-review and editing of products under development along with publishing/production and dissemination support;
  3. A small stipend to offset the cost of fellowship work and/or fellowship-related travel.


ARIS will recognize the work of fellows on the Center website, at the annual Summit, and with a letter to your organizational leadership.

2022 Fellowship Priorities

ARIS encourages applicants to address any one of the below priorities in their application. ARIS will select Fellows with the most innovative and potentially impactful approaches overall. We will not necessarily fund all of the below priorities, and may fund more than one proposal in some priority areas. Applicants may propose another project with ample justification and demonstration of how the proposed work adds value to existing literature and resources on the topic.

Please note: research impact activities for a specific research project will not be competitive; development of resources based on a single case will not be competitive. Project outputs should be aimed at serving the research community broadly and be of value and interest across disciplines.

Priorities for 2022 Fellows Program (in no particular order)

Impact Practices

  1. Developing research impacts that advance cyber security in the U.S.
  2. Choosing, using, and evaluating social media for research impacts. 
  3. Elevating diversity, equity, and inclusion in workforce readiness programs.
  4. Using critical practices for engaging persons with disabilities in STEM.
  5. Using evidence-based inclusive science communication principles in research impacts activities.

Institutional and Proposal Planning

  1. Institutional level research impacts assessment and evaluation strategies.
  2. Promising approaches to broader impacts in the social and behavioral sciences.
  3. Guidance from Indigenous perspectives on wise practices for partnering with tribal governments, organizations, and communities on NSF proposals and projects.
  4. HBCU research impacts perspectives, unique realities, and opportunities for partnership.
  5. Engaging humanities scholars in large-scale NSF proposals (Convergence, INCLUDES, Centers and Institutes, NRT, etc.)

The below priorities require applicants to communicate with specific ARIS partners prior to submission. Contact Julie Risien early enough to make those connections.  

  1.  Assess and characterize demand for various types of research impacts training across diverse groups and organizations.
  2. Convene research administration representatives from Minority Serving Institutions to develop an implementation plan of the MSI – BI Framework developed at New York City College of Technology.

Eligibility

All professionals, researchers, faculty, educators, graduate students and others working to advance research impacts practice are eligible to apply. Applicants must demonstrate standing and experience in the communities and/or institutions relevant to the priority they are addressing. All applicants must attend one of the three Zoom sessions (or alternatively communicate with Julie Risien) to verify their intent to apply. These sessions will include open time to ask questions about the process and discuss proposal ideas.

Select to view video explaining ARIS Fellowships applications for 2022

Please watch this overview video to learn more about the program and application process first.

 

  • Zoom Session: July 30, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Central
  • Zoom Session: August 16, 4:00 p.m. Central
  • Final Zoom Session: September 8, 2:00 p.m. Central

(There are no additional Zoom sessions scheduled.)



No applicant may propose work that is already within the scope of work of any existing grant, fellowship, or contracted project. Selected fellows will be required to certify that they are not already funded to conduct their proposed projects. Proposed projects may be complementary and add value to existing projects.

Program Requirements

The overall work is to advance scholarship and provide clear and concise synthesis or original products that will build capacity for the research community and their partners to enhance the social, economic, and environmental impacts of their research. Fellows will conduct small-scale individual or paired projects that result in useful tools, products, activities or scholarship that facilitates use of evidence-based impact practices throughout the research community. Fellows are to approach their work collaboratively with ARIS and other awarded Fellows. Below are some of the specific requirements:

  • Participate in virtual meetings with the community of fellows and program leaders every other month through 2022 to discuss project status, share insights, and exchange feedback.
  • Collaborate with and respond to feedback from former Fellows, ARIS leadership and others with expertise related to your project.  
  • Complete projects and peer-reviews within the program timeline.
  • Maintain open communication with the ARIS team about project successes and challenges.
  • Comply with all policies of NSF and the Institutional Review Board for research on human subjects (if applicable).
  • Conduct your work under norms of scholarly practice including using appropriate citations, sharing credit where applicable, and appropriately responding to reviewer comments.
  • Share work in formats accessible to persons with disabilities. 
  • Present project at the Spring 2023 ARIS Summit. (Note: Stipends can be used to cover travel to the Summit; additional travel funds may be available for fellows who cannot otherwise attend the Summit.)
  • Collaborate with ARIS to finalize, publish and disseminate final products.
  • Serve as a mentor to future ARIS Fellows.

Application Process

Applications deadline was September 30, 2021 by close of business your local time. Application text is limited to 1,600 words. Please include page numbers and the primary applicant’s last name in the footer of each page. Please name the document using the last name of the primary applicant as follows
Lastname_ARIS_2022_Fellowship_Application.pdf.

Include the following sections using the provided HEADERS below.

  1. TITLE
    Brief, but descriptive.
  2. OVERVIEW
    This is a brief overview of the project. Indicate a) if the project is individual or collaborative; b) identify if the project has a synthesis or new scholarship focus;  c) which priority area is addressed, and how addressing it will support the research community to advance research impacts; d) how will your approach this work; and e) who is your intended audience. You may include a relevant figure in this section, although this is not required.
  3. OUTPUTS
    Describe the planned project outputs and how they may be used and by whom. These may include one or more creative or scholarly outputs such as interactive web tools, digital documents, white papers, peer-reviewed publications, guidelines or guidebooks, etc. You may include a graphical sketch or diagram in this section if relevant.
  4. TIMELINE
    Include a basic project timeline aligned with important dates below.
  5. CHALLENGES
    Describe anticipated project challenges and plans for overcoming them.
  6. APPLICANT PROFILE
    A brief description of your background and interest in the proposed project. This section should clarify your qualifications and standing in the discipline and/or community around which your project is centered.
  7. BIOSKETCH(es)
    Please include a two-page biosketch or resume for each applicant. Include these on separate pages at the end of the document.
    Note: Biosketches, figure-embedded text, and references are not included in the 1,600 word count.

Application Review Selection of Fellows

All applications will undergo an initial internal ARIS review. Those applications that meet the criteria above will undergo further external peer review. ARIS will select Fellows based on external and internal reviews that demonstrate 1) merit of project and evidence that the applicant(s) are qualified and likely to be successful; 2) potential of proposed project to broadly contribute to advancing research impacts scholarship and practice; and 3) degree to which the project descriptions meet the 2022 program priorities and/or provides a compelling rationale.

Timeline and Important Dates

Applications were due September 30, 2021

  • Fellows notified by December 2021
  • Fellows announced, fellows officially begin January 2022
  • Fellows meetings continue every other month March 2022 – March 2023
  • First draft of product due July 2022
  • Internal feedback sessions completed August 2022
  • Revised products submitted for external peer review October 2022
  • External review of products returned to fellows November 2022
  • Revised products due January 2023
  • Presentation of final products April 2023

Awards and Use of Funds

ARIS will distribute awards through University of Missouri issued stipends. Single fellow awards are $5,000 and team projects are $7,500 split among named collaborators. Awards will be distributed as stipends directly to individual fellows in two installments. We will distribute half after fellows submit an initial and acceptable draft product (targeted for July 2022). We will distribute the second half after submission of a production-ready draft product (targeted for January 2023).

Additional Information

Awarded fellows will sign an agreement with guidelines about product authorship, intellectual property, production and distribution of projects. The ARIS Center may copyright selected complete products through the University of Missouri; authors will be acknowledged for their leading role in product development, organizations may also be acknowledged in final products. Final fellowship products and resources will be posted on the ARIS website and may be used to update or enhance ARIS training modules or other capacity-building initiatives. Fellows may also post their materials on their personal or institutional websites acknowledging ARIS and NSF support.

Applicants may contact ARIS with any questions.

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