ANNUAL SUBMISSION DEADLINES

November:  Deadline for RIF proposals

Mid-December:  Provost’s Research Fellowship Award for reassignment in the following Fall semester

Mid-May:  Provost’s Research Fellowship Award for reassignment in the following Spring semester

Spring Semester:  Submission of proposals for Start-up Grants

Please check the Office of Research website for exact dates

Several people on both campuses are working on various research projects that will eventually require ethical clearance. The ABP Research Committee is here to help you out with this process. Here are the ZU Office of Research Ethical Clearance Guidelinesand link to the ZU webpage for the Office of Research.

The process is time consuming as the ZU Ethical Research Committee only meets about once a month. If you are planning research in the near future, the time is now to apply for clearance. Please feel free to set up an appointment with Jenny E., Aicha, David Jeffrey or myself on the DXB campus or Effie, Tara, Debra, or Jeffrey on the AUH campus. We can explain the process and review applications and survey tools prior to you submitting to the EC.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Committee Members 2011-2012:
Dr. David Palfreyman (University College)
Dr. Mercedes Sheen (College of Arts and Sciences, Natural Science and Public Health)
Dr. Mohammed Lahkim (Institute for Community Engagement)
Dr. Sadiq Midraj (College of Education)
Dr. Sharon Parker (College of Arts and Sciences, Art and Design)
Dr. Wendy James (College of Business)
Birgitta Feldges (Office of Research)
Dr. Michael Allen (Assistant Provost, Ex-officio for the Office of Research)

The Committee meets monthly and considers all applications for ethical clearance.  Applications should be received by the Office of Research as per the timetable below:

Application deadline	Meeting date
23 OCT 2011	31 OCT 2011
23 NOV 2010	30 NOV 2011
07 DEC 2011	14 DEC 2011
16 JAN 2012	23 JAN 2012
20 FEB 2012	27 FEB 2012
14 MAR 2012	21 MAR 2012
23 APR 2012	30 APR 2012
21 MAY 2012	28 May 2012
06 JUN 2012	13 JUN 2012

(Every effort will be made to accommodate research requirements necessitated outside these dates)

Dear ABP faculty,

Please be advised that the deadline for proposal submissions for the Provost’s Research Fellowship Award is Jan. 20, 2011.

For further information on the proposal process and relevant forms, visit the following link.

The ABP Research Committee members will be happy to offer any further support or simply listen and discuss your ideas.

Thank you.

All research projects using students or faculty members of ZU must be approved by the Ethical Clearance committee.

The Committee meets monthly and considers all applications for ethical clearance.  Applications should be received by the Office of Research as per the timetable below:

Application deadline	Meeting date
15 FEB 2011	01 MAR 2011
22 MAR 2011	05 APR 2011
26 APR 2011	10 MAY 2011
24 MAY 2011	07 JUN 2011

There are a number of different avenues you may take to get started on a research project – big or small.

1. Contact Tara Waller as the ABP representative on the University Research Standing Committee and she will be more than happy to sit down with you and discuss how to set up a project or point you in a positive direction to get started.

2. The university Office of Research offers a number of workshops to help faculty members who are currently conducting research projects. Attending these workshops are not only helpful in developing your research skills, but also provide you with an opportunity to meet other faculty members who are doing research, which may lead to collaboration or motivational support.

3. Find another colleague who might have research experience, interest, etc and work together to build a research project, making it easier to tackle with someone than alone.

The ABP management and Zayed University fully support faculty research. With this support will come consideration for more time to focus on a project, possible funding opportunities and inevitable professional development!

 

Truthfully, you are probably doing research every time you walk in to your classroom and look for ways to better teach your students. Just because it isn’t defined as such or drafted into a research project, doesn’t mean that you aren’t doing research! If you’re doing it anyway, wouldn’t it be great to package it so that it can benefit your colleagues, develop the field and pad your CV?

Not every research project needs to be at a PhD dissertation level. Doing a small Action Research project is something that will benefit your classroom/teaching directly and can help others once you present and/or publish your results! Why not give it a try?

 

What is Research Exactly?

How do we define research?

There are many definitions or explanations available on what research means, but in simple terms doing research is to do “a careful study to discover the correct information” about a particular topic or area of interest. Most commonly educational research stems from a question/problem found in the classroom and an appropriate solution is studied, tested and applied to help the teacher and learners.