Scholarship in Teaching Fund: Guidelines and Dates
Preamble
The University has established the Scholarship in Teaching Fund to support and enhance learning and teaching. The scholarship of teaching is the systematic and rigorous reflection on university learning and teaching by academic staff. It includes the development and evaluation of new approaches to teaching, critical discourse about learning and teaching, and analyses of professional and institutional cultures and frameworks as they bear on learning and teaching. The scholarship of teaching is relevant to all disciplines and professional fields within the University.
Purposes
The purposes of the Scholarship in Teaching Fund are:
i. to promote research and scholarship in university learning and teaching within CSU
ii. to enhance the capacity of CSU to reflect on, evaluate and improve its learning and teaching practices
iii. to support priorities for research and scholarship in learning and teaching identified in the University’s Learning and Teaching Plan
Operation
i. Funding will be allocated on a competitive basis
to applications assessed against the criteria set out in (3) below.
ii. Funding will be allocated by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Academic) or nominee on advice of the Learning and Teaching Committee.
iii. Applications for funding will be called for in March
of each year.
iv. Funds will be available for expenditure from June
of the year in which an application is approved. Funds are expected to
be expended by December of the following year. Funds may not be carried
forward beyond that time without approval of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Academic) or nominee.
v. Normally grants from the Fund will not exceed $10,000
for any project, although the total funding for a project from all sources
may exceed this amount.
vi. Applications for funding should include:
vii.
- Title of project;
- Investigator(s), including Chief Investigator/Team Leader where a team project is involved;
- Estimated time (days per month) required by each investigator and certification by their Head of School that the investigator will be able to devote such time to the project;
- Summary description;
- Aims and rationale;
- Description of project including methods, expected outcomes, timelines, and rationale for budget;
- Statement addressing the criteria;
- At least one referee, who can attest to the value of the project and the capacity of the applicant(s) to undertake it;
- Budget, including details of costings. (Submissions anticipating using casual assistance to include provision of 20% for on-costs.);
- Dissemination strategies for results.
viii. The Learning and Teaching Committee may seek advice
on applications from within or outside the University.
ix. Funding would be dependent on the Ethics in Human
Research Committee approval if appropriate.
x. A report on completion, including a summary suitable
for promulgation in the University, must be submitted to the Learning
and Teaching Committee.
Criteria
i. the merit of the proposal as research and scholarship in teaching;
ii. capacity to enhance reflection on and development of learning and teaching at CSU beyond the normal role expected of a subject or course coordinator;
iii. linkage to disciplines or fields within the University’s profile;
iv. alignment with priorities for the scholarship of learning and teaching identified in the Learning and Teaching Plan;
v. effective dissemination strategies, within the University and through publication and conference presentation.
vi. capacity of project to lead to further research and scholarship, including external funding.
Note: normally learning resource development will only be supported if it involves an innovative project which is systematically evaluated, with the results available for dissemination within the University.
Eligibility
- All permanent academic staff of the University.
- Staff of DLTS may be included as members of project teams with the approval of the Executive Director, DLTS.
Indicative uses of Funds
- Teaching release
- Research or technical assistance
- Equipment
- Consumables
- Travel within University
- Dissemination costs within University