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2024 Call for Proposals

The Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) announces its 2024 Research in Strategic Management (RSM) Program. The RSM grant program aims to support research on a rotating set of themes central to the field of strategic management.

The theme for the 2023 and 2024 program cycles is “New Thinking in Corporate Strategy Research.” A foundational question in the field of strategic management asks how firms and managers make choices about firm scope and boundaries. Combined with the recent theoretical advances and empirical innovations, managerial and contextual changes in the business environment have opened new avenues for approaching corporate strategy research. This call for submissions seeks proposals that revisit this core strategic question with fresh theoretical perspectives, in contemporary contexts, or through advanced data and methodological approaches.

Proposals are required to tackle questions and phenomena that inform corporate-level dynamics and provide insights for corporate-level decision making. We encourage theoretical and especially empirical proposals. All submissions are required to articulate how the proposed research contributes to this theme, to strategic management theory, and to relevant managerial practices.

A few illustrative topics and questions are below:

· Whether, when, and how do corporate decisions become strategic decisions? What are the tradeoffs involved in and consequences of choices about firm scope, scale, and geographic reach? What assumptions about firm objectives and economic activity underpin the strategic significance of the decisions?

· How do managers pursue corporate strategic decision making? What is the interplay between corporate managerial decisions and organizational form and structure? What decision-making tools and methods guide managers? How does the nature and composition of corporate management teams influence decisions about corporate scale and scope?

· Whether, when, and how do corporate mergers, acquisitions, alliances, and divestitures retain their strategic value for achieving resource allocation and reconfiguration within and across firms? What other approaches can add, substitute, or complement these corporate development modes?

· How do contemporary contextual trends influence the antecedents, processes, and consequences of corporate strategic decision making? Three trends are notable. How does the emergence and diffusion of technologies such as automation, artificial intelligence, connectivity, and distributed manufacturing influence corporate strategy in the industry 4.0 era? How does the increasing emphasis on ESG objectives and purpose impact corporate strategy choices? How might diversified businesses be organized and managed differently considering the changing structure and preferences of the workforce?

All applications should articulate how the proposed research contributes to answering this thematic question. Submissions drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives to address specific research questions are welcome, providing the contribution to strategic management theory and practice is evident.

· Target Applicant: A full-time faculty member or post-doctoral researcher affiliated with a university, who is a current member of the Strategic Management Society.

· Funding & Key Terms: Grants of up to US$25,000 to support direct research expenses such as data collection and research assistance. No institutional overhead will be paid.

· Submission Deadline : October 1, 2024

· Grant Period : January 1, 2025 — December 31, 2026

Eligibility

All proposals are required to identify a Principal Investigator (PI). The PI, who leads the research effort and to whom the grant is awarded, must be a full-time faculty member or post-doctoral researcher affiliated with a university and a member of the Strategic Management Society at the time of submission and throughout the grant period. Also, the PI is the sole recipient of a grant even when proposal includes Co-Investigators (CIs).

At any time, a single individual is permitted to serve as a PI or CI on only one proposal across all SRF programs. Further, individuals named in a previously funded SRF proposal may not participate in a new proposal until expiration of the prior award. Individuals named on a proposal must disclose any prior SRF awards and demonstrate that the project in the current proposal is distinct from their previously funded research. All SRF grants aim to support research that has not been undertaken. Thus, completed work is not eligible for funding.

Funding & Deliverables

The SRF plans to award multiple RSM grants of up to $25,000 each during the 2024 funding cycle. Recipients will be named SRF Scholars. Recipients are expected to use the awarded funds within the grant period. 

The SRF program provides financial support to cover direct research expenses for data collection, student research assistance, and other activities that enable the conduct of the research project. Examples of ineligible expenses include conference travel and registration fees, compensation for PI or CI time, teaching buyouts, purchases of software or equipment, and university overhead. As the program aims to foster future research, reimbursement for previous expenditures is not permitted. Determination of eligible and ineligible expenses rests with the SRF.

For proposals accepted for funding, the SRF will prepare an agreement to be executed by the PI detailing the responsibilities of both the PI and the SRF. Grant funds awarded will be disbursed at the start of the two-year grant period beginning January 1, 2025.

The SRF requires regular progress reports as well as a final report on the project. The PI will submit a progress report every six months of the grant and a final report within three months of the end of the grant. The final report will include an executive summary of the research findings and documentation of expenses incurred.

Submission Guidelines

Proposals (in English) are to be submitted by the PI through the online submission system. 

Submissions will include the following:

· Submission title

· Amount requested in US Dollars

· Name and academic affiliation of PI

· Names of any other CIs and their affiliations

· Summary (500 words) of the proposed research project

· Research Proposal of up to 10 pages, single spaced, with the following structure:

1. Specific research question(s) to be addressed, including how the research addresses the 2023-2024 RSM program theme, review of the relevant literature from the field of strategic management, and expected contributions to both the theory and the practice of strategic management

2. Research design, including descriptions of data and analysis techniques

3. Cited references

· Timetable/schedule (including a description of any work completed to date)

· Detailed budget in US Dollars, including disclosure of other sources of funding

· Expected impact of SRF funding on the quality of the research

· CVs for the PI and any CI(s)

· Disclosure of any personal or business relationship between researchers and organizations providing data, field access, or other assistance that could potentially create a conflict of interest

· A description of any non-disclosure agreements governing the research, including discussion of restrictions on publishing outcomes

· A letter from the Dean’s Office of the PI’s primary academic institution confirming support for the funding application and acknowledging any institutional financial resources provided to the project

· Disclosure of any relationship with SRF Co-Chairs or the RSM Program Director, which may create the perception of a conflict of interest: potential conflicts of interest include, but are not limited to, advising, co-authoring, or consulting relationships

Proprietary Rights & Acknowledgements

Grant recipients will retain copyright to all materials prepared in connection with the funded project. However, the SRF will retain an irrevocable, royalty-free license in perpetuity to use such materials for non-commercial purposes furthering the mission of the SRF. The SRF requires that any publication of the resulting research in articles or other forms includes an acknowledgement that the research was funded in part by the SRF of the Strategic Management Society.

Timetable & Evaluation Process

The SRF submission deadline is October 1, 2024. Notification of RSM grants awarded will be made by January 1, 2025. Submissions will be reviewed using the following criteria:

· Contribution to strategic management theory: Are the frameworks employed, the data to be used, and/or the potential results to be obtained likely to make a new and substantial theoretical or empirical contribution to the academic field of strategic management?

· Contribution to strategic management practice: Is this research likely to yield important advice for managers in private or public organizations and make a significant contribution to the practice of strategic management?

· Novelty of the research topic/question: Is this research likely to start or redirect a line of inquiry in the field of strategic management?

· Research design and methodological rigor: Are the data appropriate for the theory being

· developed or tested? Are the procedures appropriate for the research questions? Is the description of the methods to be used adequate? Is validity properly justified?

· Likelihood of project success: Are the qualifications of the research team appropriate for

· the proposed research? Do the researchers have sufficient access to resources (financial and non-financial) to carry out the project?

· Expected impact of the funding: Is SRF funding likely to make a significant difference to the quality, scope, or other characteristics of the project that will enhance its conceptual or empirical contributions to theory and practice?

Please send any questions about the Research in Strategic Management Program by email to [email protected] .

The Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) announces its 2024 Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant Program and calls for grant proposals associated with doctoral students’ dissertations. Proposals should describe original research in strategic management that is required for the award of a research doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent). 

Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant Program funds are intended to supplement other financial 

resources available to students and to support elements of their research that enhance the quality, expand the scope, augment the research design, or in some other way enrich their dissertation projects. 

· Target Applicant: A full-time student studying strategic management in a research doctoral program at an accredited institution. Ideal applicants are at the dissertation stage with 2-3 years remaining at the time of application. 

· Funding & Key Terms: Grants of up to US$10,000 to support dissertation research expenses such as data collection that are required for completion of the doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent). No institutional overhead or researcher stipends will be covered. 

· Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024 

· Grant Period: January 1, 2025 — December 31, 2026 

The SRF recognizes that dissertation program structures vary but suggests that applicants will have 

completed at least half of their home institution’s program requirements, including preliminary or qualifying requirements (such as coursework, comprehensive examinations/research proposal defense) prior to submitting an application. Ideal applicants will be sufficiently advanced in their doctoral programs to have well-defined dissertation plans and early enough in the execution of their dissertation work to benefit from the support of dissertation expenses and the SRF Dissertation Workshop that will be held during the first year of the grant period. Previous recipients of SRF WMDRG program funds are not eligible to apply for additional funds. 

All SRF grants aim to support research that has not been undertaken. Thus, completed work is not eligible for funding. 

Funding  

Financial support will cover direct research and data collection expenses (e.g., purchase of data or subscriptions to databases, surveys and respondent incentives, and interviews of research subjects and related travel) as well as up to US$2,000 related to travel expenses for participation in SRF activities at the 2025 and 2026 SMS Annual Conferences. Research activities with funding limits include: Research Assistance (capped at US$4,000); Transcription Services (capped at US$4,000). Examples of ineligible expenses include but are not limited to: compensation for the Scholar’s time, purchases of software or equipment, copyediting and other expenses associated with the dissertation document, university overhead, tuition and other personal expenses, and expenses for conference travel, except as noted above. Determination of eligible and ineligible expenses rests with the SRF. 

When a proposal is accepted for funding, the SRF will prepare a written agreement that details the responsibilities of both the Scholar and the SRF. Grant funds awarded will be disbursed at the start of the two-year grant period beginning January 1, 2025 and are expected to be used by the end of the grant period. 

Deliverables & Activities

Recipients of the Will Mitchell Dissertation Grants are expected to provide the following deliverables: periodic update reports, an executive summary of the research findings, a copy of the dissertation, and documentation of the expenses incurred. All Scholars are expected to participate in the SRF Workshop at the 2025 SMS Annual Conference and the SRF Scholars Session at the 2026 SMS Annual Conference. Scholars participating in these activities will receive Annual Conference registration fee waivers. 

All proposal materials must be in English. A submission consists of the following: 

· Dissertation title 

· Applicant name 

· Doctoral institution 

· Dissertation advisor 

· Name of outside committee members, if any (to avoid conflict in review process) 

· Amount requested (in US Dollars) 

· Anticipated doctoral program completion date 

· Three keywords that characterize the proposed research 

· Summary (500 words) of the proposed research project 

· Research proposal of up to ten (10) pages, double-spaced, with the following structure: 

1. Specific research question(s) to be addressed, review of the relevant strategic management literature, and expected contributions to the field of strategic management 

2. Research design, including description of proposed data and analysis techniques 

3. Cited references 

· Timetable/Schedule 

· Detailed budget in US Dollars, including specific items proposed for SRF funding and sources of support other than SRF 

· Expected impact of SRF funding on the quality of the research 

· Applicant’s CV 

· A recommendation letter from the applicant’s dissertation advisor in support of the proposal. This letter will be requested through the submission portal and should be completed by the dissertation advisor. It should include a statement of the applicant’s stage of completion in the dissertation work and doctoral program, verification that the research components for which funding is sought have yet to be undertaken and are anticipated to be part of the applicant’s dissertation, and a description of the difference the award would make to the quality or nature of the dissertation.

Grant recipients will retain the copyrights to all materials prepared in connection with the funded project. However, it is expected that the SRF will be granted an irrevocable, royalty-free license in perpetuity to use such materials for non- commercial purposes furthering the mission of the SRF. The SRF requires that any publication of the resulting research in articles or other forms includes an acknowledgment that the research was funded in part by the SRF of the Strategic Management Society. 

The SRF submission deadline is October 1, 2024. Notification of SRF Will Mitchell Dissertation Scholar Awards will be made by January 1, 2025. Submissions will be reviewed using the following criteria: 

· Contribution to strategic management theory: Are the frameworks employed, the data to be used, and/or the potential results to be obtained likely to make a new and substantial theoretical or empirical contribution to the academic field of strategic management? 

· Conceptual and empirical contributions: Does this dissertation study a new phenomenon? Even if the phenomenon is not new, is the dissertation’s empirical base novel? 

· Novelty of the research topic/question: Is this dissertation likely to start a new or redirect an existing line of inquiry in the field of strategic management? 

· Research design and methodological rigor: Is the data appropriate for the theory being built or tested? Are the procedures appropriate for the research questions? Is there adequate description of the methods used? Is validity properly justified? 

· Quality of writing: Is language used consistently? Are the arguments made clearly? Does the writing flow naturally? 

· Managerial implications: Is this dissertation likely to yield important advice for managers in private or public organizations? 

· Expected impact of the funding: Is SRF funding likely to make a significant difference to the quality, scope, or other characteristics of the dissertation that will enhance its conceptual and/or empirical contribution to theory and/or practice?

Please send any questions about the Dissertation Research Program by email to

[email protected]. 

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The Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) of the Strategic Management Society (SMS) announces the 2024 Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant (WMDRG) Program. This program aims to support doctoral student dissertation research in the field of strategic management. Proposals should describe original research that is required for the award of a research doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent).

The WMDRG funds are intended to supplement other financial resources available to students and to support elements of their research that enhance the quality, expand the scope, augment the research design, or in some other way enrich their dissertation projects.

Target Applicant

A full-time student studying strategic management in a research doctoral program at an accredited institution. Ideal applicants are at the dissertation stage with 2-3 years remaining at the time of application.

Grants of up to US$10,000 to support direct dissertation research expenses such as data collection that are required for completion of the doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent). Financial support will cover direct research and data collection expenses (e.g., purchase of data or subscriptions to databases, surveys and respondent incentives, and interviews of research subjects and related travel).

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Michigan Ross Strategy PhD Students Awarded Prestigious Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant to Enhance Their Research Capabilities

Since 2011, several students from the strategy doctoral program at the Ross School of Business have received the prestigious Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant , which provides funds to directly support their dissertation research expenses. 

The grant supports elements of doctoral students’ research that enhance the quality, expand the scope, augment the research design, or in some other way enrich their dissertation projects.

Susie Choe, a rising fifth-year strategy PhD student, is the most recent recipient from Michigan Ross.

Choe’s dissertation, “Identity-based Competition: How Identities Shape Producers’ Market Opportunities and Constraints,” examines how consumers evaluate the offerings of organizations and entrepreneurs. Specifically, she studies how producers’ social identities shape their competitive positioning and market outcomes. One aspect of her research looks at how the Yelp reviews of Japanese restaurants are influenced by the ethnicity of the restaurants’ owners. Capturing these nuances is just the first step toward comprehending the complex way in which businesses occupy their social frameworks. 

With this grant, Choe will be able to pursue her research to the fullest extent. “For a more rigorous test of my core theoretical framework, I recognized a need for a mixed-method approach using experiments, which can be quite costly to implement,” said Choe.

Yue Maggie Zhou , associate professor of strategy at Michigan Ross and strategy department PhD coordinator, believes the award provides an essential resource for PhD research. 

“The grant provides a critical source of funding for students who have developed creative ideas for their dissertations, but would otherwise be discouraged from pursuing such ideas because of the high cost of running experiments or purchasing large datasets to empirically test their ideas,” said Zhou. 

Beyond the financial benefits, the students receive access to a collection of career-building resources that, according to Choe, “immerses recipients in a network of colleagues and leading scholars who provide 1:1 developmental feedback, mentorship, and career advice.”

Choe joins a history of scholars from Ross who have been awarded the grant. Current strategy PhD student Hyuck David Chung received it in 2021 for his dissertation, “The Theory of the Firm in the Platform Economy.” Chung noted that the grant has “​​high standards on both theoretical rigor and sophisticated methodology,” and he feels what sets the Michigan Ross program apart is “the supportive and nurturing relationship with advisors that further empowers students to combine different theories and develop novel and innovative dissertations.” 

The grant has also assisted with the research of Diana Jue-Rajasingh , PhD '23, assistant professor at Rice University, and Reuben Hurst , PhD '24, assistant professor at the University of Maryland. Previous grant recipients from Ross include Sun Hyun Park , PhD ’12, professor of strategy and international management at Seoul National University, and Sara Ryoo , PhD ’18, lecturer in knowledge management and organizational learning at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York.

The Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant is presented by the Strategy Research Foundation of the Strategic Management Society, a program that aims to support doctoral student dissertation research in the field of strategic management. 

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Applications close on October 1, 2024.

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I'm an an associate professor and co-chair of the strategy and business policy department at HEC Paris, and academic director of HEC Paris’ Strategic Management MSc program.  My research interests include understanding the drivers and impacts of strategy and performance in human capital intensive firms that relate to firms' professional workforce and client relationships.  More generally, I am interested in topics related to strategic human capital, employee mobility, demand-side strategy, and relational market ties. I sit on the editorial review board for Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal and I am the Associate Program Director for the SMS Will Mitchell Dissertation Grant Program and a member of the Executive Committee for the STR (strategy) Division of the AOM.

I obtained my PhD in Business Administration (Strategy) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Haifeng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on employee mobility, knowledge spillover, and employee entrepreneurship, particularly the labor market frictions that impact human resource-based competitive advantage.

Haifeng’s dissertation examines the factors influencing firms’ noncompete agreements (NCAs) enforcement and the subsequent outcomes, including the organizational and contextual drivers of NCA enforcement and the effects of NCA enforcement on employee mobility, productivity, and spinouts. The SMS Will Mitchell dissertation research grant has supported this project.

Haifeng is also conducting another entrepreneurship project that explores how early employment organizational context influences employees’ human capital accumulation and entrepreneurial transition.

Selected Published Journal Articles

Ganco, M. & Liu, J. & Wang, H. & Yamaguchi, S. (2024). Strategic Restraint: When do Human-Capital-Intensive Companies Choose (Not) to Use Noncompete Agreements? Strategic Management Journal

Wang, H. & Coff, R. (2022). On the Matter of How Much Industry Matters Strategic Management Review

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I currently teach courses on strategy, the use of data for managerial decision-making, and research design at the M.Sc., MBA, and Ph.D. level. My teaching portfolio includes courses on Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, and Strategy in the context of creative industries. At the doctoral level, I also have experience teaching Behavioral Strategy and Corporate Strategy.

Biographical note

I am an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Department of Management & Technology, Bocconi University, Milan, and Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. I obtained my PhD from Bocconi University in 2011. My research focuses on the interplay of competition and cooperation, with a specific focus on factors that foster or inhibit the creation and transfer of knowledge, within and across organizations.

I currently serve as an Associate Editor for Strategic Management Journal and Contributing Editor for Strategy Science , and am in the editorial review board of Organization Science, Strategic Organization, and Journal of Organization Design.

I am the Program Chair of the Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant Program of the Strategic Research Foundation, and serve on the board of the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation (CCC) .

At Bocconi, I serve as the director of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) at SDA Bocconi School of Management, a member of the Ethics Committee (since 2020) and a member of the Department of Management and Technology Executive Committee (since 2020). I am affiliated with BELSS and iCrios.

Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a faculty member of HEC Paris, where I am still part of the SnO Research Center. Prior to joining academia, I worked as a product manager for L’Oréal Paris.

Research interests

My general research interests are in the area of innovation, knowledge, and organizational learning. More specifically, I study the interplay of competition and cooperation, with a specific focus on factors that foster or inhibit the creation and transfer of knowledge, within and across organizations.

From a methodological standpoint, my research is prevalently mixed-method, with a focus on experiments and field work more broadly. I have partnered with a number of organizations to conduct experiments “in the wild.”

My work is often conducted in the context of creative industries, broadly defined – from gourmet cuisine to science, from computer programming to academia.

Selected Publications

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Dissertation Research Grant

The Dissertation Research Grant is an award paid by The Graduate School to assist doctoral students with expenses associated with research necessary to prepare dissertations. Awards will be up to  $1,000 . The tiers will be determined by the rankings of the review committee. The applicant must complete the online application and submit their CV as well as the major professor's statement form to The Graduate School prior to the deadline. 

The application cycle is now closed.

*Click here to view the fellowship eligibility guidelines, application submission instructions, and deadline. (Updated 11-3-23)  

Master's in Four (Min4) Competition

Competition Details and Deadlines

Master's students who have earned 18 hours of graduate coursework toward the degree may compete in the Master's in Four Competition during which they have four minutes, and four slides to explain their research to a diverse audience. 

 Monetary prizes are provided for the four Master's in Four (Min4) winners. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners are selected by judges while the "4 the People" prize is selected by the audience's vote. 

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Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award

The Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award  is designed to recognize the superior scholarship of FSU graduate students. All required nomination materials must be submitted as one PDF packet to James Beck ( [email protected] ) via FSU Nifty by the deadline below.

FSU graduate students will be recognized for their outstanding contributions to research and creative endeavors at the Celebration of Graduate Student Excellence held each spring in April. Awards of $1,000.00 will be made to students in three disciplinary categories: Natural and Physical Sciences (includes mathematics and engineering), Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Humanities and Arts.

• Must be an active FSU degree-seeking graduate or professional student in good academic standing.
• Must show evidence of outstanding scholarly/creative productivity as a graduate/professional student at FSU; if the effort is part of a team the nomination materials must clearly delineate the contributions of the applicant.
• Must show evidence of national visibility in research/creative activity (e.g., publications, presentations, juried exhibits, or performances). This could also include evidence of recognition and honors in endeavors related to the research and/or creative activities .
• Winners of the award will be required to complete and submit a video showcasing their research/creative endeavors for the Graduate School’s GradWorld FSU website. 

*Please review the Instruction Form below for more information regarding the nomination, submission and review process. The application cycle for this award is now closed.

Nomination Instruction Form

Please download the Instruction Form here.  

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For more information, please contact James Beck in The Graduate School at (850) 644-3501.  

Graduate Student Leadership Award

Sponsored annually by the Graduate School at Florida State University, the Graduate Student Leadership Award recognizes outstanding graduate student leaders who are making a positive difference in their scholarly/creative work, campus, and wider communities. Graduate students who exhibit strong leadership skills are encouraged to apply. The person selected for the prestigious Graduate Student Leadership Award will be recognized at the  Celebration of Graduate Student Excellence  held each spring semester in April. All nominees are recognized at the event. The Graduate Student Leadership Award recipient will also receive a $1,000  award.

Requirements

Each applicant must be an active, enrolled, FSU degree-seeking or professional graduate student in good academic standing and must provide the following to the Graduate School:

• A personal essay that includes a rationale for receiving the Graduate Student Leadership Award. The essay needs to explicitly address the evaluation criteria noted in the Instruction Form. Maximum Length is 2 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. font. Calibri, with 1-inch margins.
• An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume
• A Letter of Recommendation supporting the student for the Graduate Student Leadership Award.  Maximum length is 3 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, Calibri, with 1-inch margins. Only one (1) Letter of Recommendation should be provided by a faculty or administrator who can address the leadership skills and efforts of the student in light of the evaluation criteria. The letter can be co-written. It is strong encouraged that the faculty or administrator sends the Letter of Recommendation to the student so that it can be uploaded into the online application portal via Qualtrics during the submission process. However, if the faculty member or administrator does not feel comfortable doing this, the Letter of Recommendation can be sent via email directly to James Beck (see contact info below). 

General Nomination/Selection Process

An academic department or college may nominate a student of their choosing. Any graduate student interested in applying for the Graduate Student Leadership Award should consult with their program/unit and faculty/staff member who will be writing their Letter of Recommendation. Program faculty/staff are encouraged to identify students within their respective units who demonstrate strong leadership skills through the general competencies and criteria noted in the Instruction Form below.

The number of nominations each department or college (if no departmental subunits) may submit for the Graduate Student Leadership Award will be based upon its number of graduate students. Departments or colleges with fewer than 100 graduate students may nominate one candidate; department or colleges with 100-200 graduate students may nominate a maximum of two candidates; departments or colleges with over 200 graduate students may nominate a maximum of three candidates.

*Please review the Instruction Form below for more information regarding the nomination, submission and review process. The application cycle for this award is now closed .

Instruction Form

Please download the Instruction Form by clicking the link below!

Graduate Student Excellence in Visual Arts

The Graduate School is pleased to announce a revision to the art competition that was established last year to recognize the artistic talents of graduate students at Florida State University. Cash awards will be coupled with   an exhibition of the selected works in the Honors, Scholars and Fellows House on the FSU Campus for one year (April 2020-April 2021).

We are looking for high quality works of art that clearly show excellence in visual arts. In addition, the artist’s statement will be assessed for its success in conveying to the judges (and a broad, general audience) why the artist was moved to create the piece, what the artist is trying to convey to the viewer and how successful the statement was in creating a deeper understanding and connection to the specific work presented. Consider the combination of the art work and the statement about the work to be a type of visual “Three Minute Thesis” combo…. bringing to life what the artwork is about.

In the statement, we are looking for the “so what factor.” Questions to consider addressing are: What is this?; Why does this piece matter?; Why is it important?; What is the connection to your field of study and what broader connections can one see in the work?, etc.

While all mediums will be considered, there are limited exhibition spaces in the Honors, Scholars and Fellows House as noted below. The graduate awards will be presented at the  Celebration of Graduate Student Excellence  held each spring in the month of April. Up to eight applicants will be selected as finalists whose works will be exhibited at the Honors House. From that group, another jurying will select three graduate student winners each of whom will be awarded $500. In addition, there will be a $250 People’s Choice Award that will be determined by the votes cast by the attendees of the opening exhibition. The award winners must agree to display their “winning” art work in the Honors, Scholars and Fellows House and the installation must remain up for one year (April 2020-April 2021). Please note that the three or four winners will be invited to exhibit 2-3 additional works in the Graduate School offices and 4 th  Floor Gallery Hall. The other finalists will each be recognized with an Honorable Mention designation and receive a $50 award and are encouraged to provide their artwork for display in the Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House.

The competition is open to all currently enrolled, degree seeking graduate and professional students in good academic standing. Applicants should consider the criteria for submitted artwork noted below under Guidelines.

The identification of the award recipients will be a two-step process. First, a diverse panel of judges (faculty, staff, students) will identify a group of up to eight finalists. The judges will consider technical/artistic merit, personal appeal, as well as the artist’s statement. Second, three graduate student winners will be chosen from this group by a committee of faculty and staff from the Honors, Scholars and Fellows House, and the Art on Campus Director.

*The application cycle for this award is now closed!

Application/Submission Process

Applicants must complete the form . This will ask for:

• your contact info
• student status info.
• image of your work in jpeg format, 1-3 no larger than 2MB
• work specifications and completion date
• Technical description of work (Materials used, size, date made)(Max: 100 words),
• Artist’s statement about the work that includes the conceptual background of work and the ideas/meaning/story of the work. The purpose is to have a broad audience understand the work and create in the viewer a strong connection to the work. Note that while visual quality of the work is an important element, a major part of the award is for the the abiltiy of the artist to convey an Understanding and Appreciation of the Visual Arts to the audience.   Artist’s Statement must be MINIMUM:300 words, MAXIMUM: 500 words

If you have questions regarding artwork eligibility or installation, please contact the Art on Campus Director, Professor Lilian Garcia-Roig at [email protected]

Three Minute Thesis (3MT™) Competition

The  Three Minute Thesis (3MT™)  is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland, Australia. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of students' capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience.

Doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their dissertation topic and its significance. 3MT™ is not an exercise in trivializing or ‘dumbing-down’ research but forces students to consolidate their ideas and crystalize their research discoveries.

All 3MT™Finalists will receive a certificate and a $100 award and are eligible for one of the three awards: 1 st  Place ($1,000), 2 nd  Place ($750), and the People’s Choice ($500) selected by the audience.

Please click here to view more information about this competition.

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Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (CA-DDRIG)

View guidelines, important information about nsf’s implementation of the revised 2 cfr.

NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website . These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.

Important information for proposers

All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in this funding opportunity and in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that is in effect for the relevant due date to which the proposal is being submitted. It is the responsibility of the proposer to ensure that the proposal meets these requirements. Submitting a proposal prior to a specified deadline does not negate this requirement.

Supports doctoral research aimed at understanding patterns, causes and consequences of human social and cultural variation, including research that has implications for confronting anthropogenic problems.

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability.

Contemporary cultural anthropology is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid in investigations of human cultural variation. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology. Because the National Science Foundation's mission is to support basic research, the NSF Cultural Anthropology Program does not fund research that takes as its primary goal improved clinical practice, humanistic understanding or applied policy. A proposal that applies anthropological methods to a social problem but does not propose how that problem provides an opportunity to make a theory-testing and/or theory-expanding contribution to anthropology will be returned without review.

Program research priorities include, but are not limited to, research that increases our understanding of:

• Sociocultural drivers of critical anthropogenic processes such as deforestation, desertification, land cover change, urbanization and poverty.
• Resilience and robustness of sociocultural systems.
• Scientific principles underlying conflict, cooperation and altruism, as well as explanations of variation in culture, norms, behaviors and institutions.
• Economy, culture, migration and globalization.
• Variability and change in kinship and family norms and practices.
• General cultural and social principles underlining the drivers of health outcomes and disease transmission.
• Biocultural work that considers the nexus of human culture and its relationship with human biology.
• Social regulation, governmentality and violence.
• Origins of complexity in sociocultural systems.
• Language and culture: orality and literacy, sociolinguistics and cognition.
• Theoretically-informed approaches to co-production in relation to scientific understandings of human variability and environmental stewardship.
• Mathematical and computational models of sociocultural systems such as social network analysis, agent-based models, multi-level models, and modes that integrate agent-based simulations and geographic information systems (GIS).

As part of its effort to encourage and support projects that explicitly integrate education and basic research, CA provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation projects designed and carried out by doctoral students enrolled in U.S. institutions of higher education who are conducting scientific research that enhances basic scientific knowledge.

Updates and announcements

Video and slides from cultural anthropology funding opportunity webinars, may and july, 2022, program contacts.

Program Director

	(703) 292-7783	SBE/BCS
Program Director		(703) 292-8740	SBE/BCS
Program Director		(703) 292-8740	SBE/BCS
Program Specialist		(703) 292-4636	SBE/BCS

Additional program resources

• AAA Statement on Protecting and Preserving Field Records and Related Links
• Sample successful CA-DDRIG proposal

Awards made through this program

Related programs.

• Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)

Organization(s)

• Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
• Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (SBE/BCS)

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SRF Grant Recipients

The purpose of the Strategy Research Foundation is to support and advance scholarship in the field of strategic management. The core activity is the operation of competitive research grant programs.

SRF currently operates two competitive grant programs: the Research in Strategic Management Program (RSM) and the Will Mitchell Dissertation Research Grant Program (WMDRG).