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GAMER Application for November 2022 In-person Workshop Experience

Although there are several forms to be filled out for the application, please do NOT get intimated by the application process. Contact Rick Segal at segal@musc.edu and he will walk you through the process.

The application can only be submitted once. You will be uploading five documents to your application, two letters of support, your biosketch, your faculty mentor's biosketch and your research plan. Please have your biosketch and research plan in final form before you submit.

General Information:

First Name

* must provide value

Last Name

* must provide value

Current Position

* must provide value

Institution/Organization

* must provide value

Email Address

* must provide value

Work Phone

* must provide value

Cell Phone

Demographics: this information is for data collection.

Gender Identity

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Racial Background (Mark one or more)

* must provide value

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

Black or African American

White

Intentionally Withheld

Hispanic or Latino?

* must provide value

Do you have a disability?

* must provide value

Research and Education:

Specialty or Research Focus

* must provide value

Title of proposed grant

* must provide value

Key words related to your proposed grant

List your degree(s) and the institutions/organizations that awarded them.

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Previous & Pending Research Support: Include titles, source of funding, descriptions of each project, dates of project, role on project, and total funding.

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What agency(s) do you plan to submit your proposal to as a result of this workshop? (If you are not sure, include which agencies you are considering.)

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Federal

State

Foundation

Internal funding such as institutional

Please list the names of faculty who will serve as mentors, collaborators, or consultants on the project.

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Upload Letter of Support from Department Chair/Division Head/Unit Head

Must be from registrant's institution/organization or, if senior trainee, in institution/organization where permanent position is anticipated. The letter of support should contain the following information.

1. Commitment to provide registration fee for the workshop.

2. Willingness to provide protected time for registrant to prepare for and participate in the 4-day workshop, to complete and submit proposal for funding to a funding source, and, if funded, to execute the proposed research.

* must provide value

Upload file

Provide the email address of your Department Chair/Division Head/Unit Head

Upload Letter of Support from Research Mentor

The letter of support should contain the following information.

1. Potential of registrant as a faculty member and as a researcher

2. Adequacy of training and research experience to be competitive for an external research grant from a federal or nationally recognized funding agency; or a research training award or ability to build upon internal seed grant funding

3. Overview of registrant's research topic, planned approach, availability of necessary facilities, resources, and expertise/support.

4. Mentor's qualification (e.g. Record of funding accomplishments and related publications) and plans for supporting the registrant in planning and writing a competitive research proposal. For the strongest application, the letter from institutional/organizational mentor should also include evidence of past and present mentoring interactions with mentee.

5. NIH-like biosketch of faculty mentor

* must provide value

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Upload Faculty Mentor's biosketch.

* must provide value

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Provide the email address of your research mentor

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Upload Your Completed Biosketch

To view a sample biosketch and use that as a guide, please refer to the GAMER website: http://acapt.org/gamer.

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Upload Your Application Proposal (No more than 4.5 pages; references don't count in page limit but should be no more than 1 page)

Format:

1. Summary/abstract of Proposal: Should concisely capture items 2-5 (No more than 250 words).

2. Problem-Gap-Hook (importance/significance) (no more than 1 page)

a. Problem:

What is the problem that people are concerned about and that your research will address?

b. Gap:

Briefly review the relevant literature in terms of what is already known about the problem

What is the gap and/or controversy in the literature that your study will be able to fill?

c. Hook:

Why is filling the knowledge gap critical, ie, what happens if we don't gain this knowledge?

What is the significance/importance/impact of your project in terms of implications for the field of study, the profession, practice, future research, etc.?

3. Research Questions/Purpose: (no more than ½ page)

Clearly and specifically state the purpose(s) of your study and research questions (suggest bullet points).

4. Approach: Outline an approach to the study that is coherent with the purpose(s)/research questions, including the following: (no more than 2 pages)

Theoretical or conceptual framework that supports the approach to your study

Research design

Participants

Procedures

Analytic methods (may be general description)

Potential limitations and alternative approaches

5. Research/Scholarship Agenda and Trajectory: (no more than 1 page)

a. Briefly describe the objective of your overall research/scholarly agenda.

b. How does the proposed study fit within your research/scholarly agenda?

c. What are the next steps in your research/scholarly agenda based on completion of this proposed study?

6. References/Citations (does not count in page limit but should be no more than 1 page)

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