CHHS Engaged Scholarship Seed Grant

The College of Health & Sciences (CHHS) Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the 2024 Engaged Scholarship Collaboration Seed Grant program. This funding opportunity is for CHHS faculty and a collaborator from another Texas Tech University (TTU) college or another U.S. institution to design a collaborative engaged scholarship project with a community partner to serve a community need. 

Engaged Scholarship Description: Engaged scholarship emerges from both learning and discovery in collaboration with communities. It engages scholars in academically relevant work that simultaneously meet the university mission as well as community needs. Scholars engage with communities by integrating scholarly interests that are relevant to the assets, needs, and reciprocal interests of both the community and campus partners.

Award Level: There will be up to two awards of up to $6,000 each. Funds are to be used for domestic travel and engaged scholarship-related expenses of the TTU faculty member and their collaborator. During their time on the TTU campus, and in addition to meeting with their TTU counterpart regarding the grant, it is expected that the collaborator and community partner will present their work with the faculty seed grant recipient at a college colloquium Funds may be used for a collaborator to visit campus and for the CHHS faculty member to travel to a collaborator’s institution and/or community partner’s site.

Examples of Engaged Scholarship Project Themes:

• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Applied Research
• Needs Assessments
• Program Evaluation

Proposal Review: Proposals will be reviewed by the CHHS Research Committee and rank-ordered based on their scientific merit, feasibility, and the likelihood of receiving a state or federal grant award. The Research Committee will then recommend to the Dean’s Office which proposal(s) are funded. Note that CHHS Research Committee members are eligible to apply but must recuse themselves during the evaluation of their proposal.

Required Documents:

1. A completed Seed Grant proposal cover sheet. 
2. A two-page project narrative that includes the following sections: background, methods, significance of the proposed project, a timetable for completion, and a detailed budget.
3. A short two-page bio-sketch of the collaborator and community partner, including a description of their role in the project.

Application Due Date: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024, by 5pm.  

 

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2022-2024 Recipients

• “Family and Consumer Sciences Summer Teaching Camp”
  • Cynthia Miller, Ph.D.
• “From Foster Care to College: Empowering Youth in Children’s Home of Lubbock with Sustainability Education Training Using VR”
  • Julie Chang, Ph.D.
• “K-12 Sustainability Education: A Game-Based Online Learning Approach”
  • Stacy Lee, Ph.D.
• “Bridging the Gap Towards Successful Vegetable Introduction: Proof in Concept for Early Head Start”
  • Wilna Oledwage-Theron, Ph.D. (Stephanie Shine, Ph.D.)
• “Building Up Global Citizens: Using Culinary Heritage as Tool for Community Engagement”
  • Jing Li, Ph.D.
• “Using Literacy to Increase Levels of Empathy Correctional Workers Feel Toward Prisoners and Their Families”
  • Kyle Roberson, Ph.D.
• “Sexism Cinema: Public Scholarship and a Community Film Series”
  • Elizabeth Sharp, Ph.D.
• “Baking Up a Word of Education and Career Opportunities” (awarded May 2024)
  • Melanie Schmitt, Ph.D.  
• “Growing GRUB: Empowering Youth and Program Leaders Through Research Communication and Advocacy” (awarded May 2024)
  • Paulina Velez Gomez, Ph.D.