New Faculty Research Checklist
- Participate in the Early Career Research Network (ECRN), UMSL’s year long program that helps new faculty get connected to grant getting best practices, collaborators, mentors, and a supportive network of colleagues
- Take advantage of the ECRN external mentoring program and department and campus mentoring opportunities
- Read these incredibly helpful resources as soon as you can:
- Review campus and department tenure and promotion guidelines and understand expectations in your discipline
- Get to know the Research Development team and how they can help you develop competitive proposals and build collaborative teams
- Get to know your sponsored programs team and department grants and contracts staff to learn about the proposal submission process
- Learn how to find funding and navigate funding agencies
- Familiarize yourself with Research Development resources on this site such as boilerplate, upcoming workshops, recorded trainings, and resources needed for common proposal components
- Apply for internal funding including UMSL Travel Grants and UMSL Research Awards to obtain preliminary data and publications which will position you for larger external awards
- Have your first proposals reviewed by the Research Development team
- Get connected to peer reviewers
- Participate in grant-related trainings to build your skills
- Attend campus events to meet potential collaborators
- Reach out to the Associate Dean for Research in your college to share your research interests and learn about college resources to support your research
- Attend NSF and/or NIH regional conferences
- Book an appointment with Lena Marvin, UMSL Open Source and Reference Librarian to learn how to put your research products in UMSL’s Institutional Repository Library (IRL) and about open access
- Develop your research agenda – the questions and problems you aim to explore that can serve as a dynamic roadmap to guide conference, publication and funding target.