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ICEOL Announces Proposal Request for 2007 Research Grants Program

The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life supports a research grants program to promote innovative scholarship on a broad range of issues related to end-of-life care, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of spirituality and health care and on the care of vulnerable populations. This year, two grants will be awarded. Proposals are due May 15, 2007 (5:00 p.m.).

Funding Objectives

Proposals are welcome from any discipline on topics related to care at the end of life, and may pertain to dying persons of any age.Priority will be given to projects with practical applications in the following areas:

  1. Spiritual care at the end of life
    including studies of pastoral care and chaplaincy, and interventions for responding to patient and family spiritual concerns.
  2. Theological, literary, or historical aspects of suffering, death and dying.
  3. Disparity and end-of-life care
    including studies of variation in access to, and preferences for, palliative and end-of-life care services for vulnerable populations.

Terms of the Award

Grants may be awarded up to $15,000, and may be expended over 2 years.

Eligibility

Proposals will be considered from scholars in any discipline.Applicants must hold a faculty position at Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or North Carolina Central University. Post-doctoral fellows may also apply; however, they must identify a faculty mentor. Funds may be used to support graduate student research assistants.

Selection Criteria

Proposals will be judged according to originality, scholarly merit, relevance to funding objectives, and feasibility.

Preference will be given to:
(1) junior investigators;
(2) senior investigators seeking to establish a new area of research;
(3) interdisciplinary collaborations; and
(4) proposals with financial or in-kind support from other university departments or community agencies.

Download announcement and application procedure.

Email questions to Dana Hall.