Achieving your long-term research and creative activities goals happens over many steps and on many time frames. CFE can help you develop an overall strategy to meet your goals by identifying the projects and funding opportunities that will help you progress in your career, developing scaffolded steps within large projects, sequencing your grant-seeking efforts from initial “seed” funding to more complex funding opportunities, and helping you improve your proposals and scholarly writing.
We offer a series of workshops to help you reach your research and creativity goals.
R&CA 110: Defining Your Strategy to Incorporate Research and Creative Activities Across Your Career
The OU Center for Faculty Excellence provides this workshop to help you describe your work to educated non-experts, think through your strategy to pursue external funding, and begin to form your strategy for research and creative activities. This includes a brief introduction to GrantForward.
R&CA 116: Strategies for Research & Creative Activities in the Arts and Humanities
Come develop your strategy for productive research! An interactive 90-minute workshop aimed at arts/humanities faculty who are starting a new book (or other multi-year) project, or who are in their first year at OU. The workshop will help participants with:
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The Big Picture: Designing Long-Term Contributions in the Arts and Humanities
This series of seven, interconnected asynchronous workshops was designed to be completed sequentially by a cohort of junior faculty in the arts and humanities, although each session could be useful as a standalone workshop, depending on your specific goals. It draws on various inspirations, including:
R&CA 117: Developing Your Idea & Communicating it Through the 1-Page Summary
Project ideas can loom larger than life when developing in your mind. Getting the idea down into a document can launch your project development forward by creating opportunities to articulate details that may otherwise remain undefined. This workshop invites OU faculty to articulate their project ideas using the 4-question model towards developing a 1-page project summary. This 1-page summary is useful for project ideation, enticing others to collaborate, and checking alignment for funding with Program Managers.
In this session, we provide acivities to:
Directions in Digital Humanities is a Canvas based resource for those who are interested in Digital Humanities (DH) research and scholarship, but don't know where to begin.
Enroll in this resource to access modules including:
