University Research Seminar: 2025-26
University Research Seminar: 2025 – 2026
Goals:
The purpose of the program is threefold:
- to support progress on scholarship during the academic year
- to provide support and a sense of community at the university for faculty engaged in active research
- to share best practices and hear from publishing professionals to optimize the quality of our scholarship, including how to make it more likely to be accepted for publication and how to deal with “revise and resubmits”
Eligibility: Applicants must be full-time faculty, including non-tenure-track Assistant Professors, Lecturers, Instructors, or Clinical Faculty. Preference will be given to early-career faculty.
Outcomes:
- By the end of the 2025-26 academic year, participants will have completed a journal article, book chapter, or book proposal that is ready for submission.
- Participants will learn a variety of successful strategies for sustaining research.
- Participants will become part of a supportive community of scholars at the university.
Program:
Participants will be expected to:
1. Attend monthly meetings for the academic year that will include assigned readings on ways to make steady progress with scholarship; sharing best practices, tips, frustrations, and how to balance scholarship and teaching; and meetings with editors and publishers to learn what they are looking for in submissions and how to make a submission publication ready.
2. Work on a consistent project, such as an article, book chapter, or book proposal, and report weekly on its progress.
3. Submit an abstract of the project at the start of the academic year and the completed or near-completed project by the end of the academic year. If the latter, it should be accompanied by a plan and schedule for completion.
Compensation/Stipend: Participants will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation in the Research Seminar. The stipend will be paid in two installments, in January 2026 and in June 2026.
Receipt of the stipend will be dependent on participation in the weekly-check-ins, attendance at the monthly meetings, and the status of the proposed project by the end of the academic year.
Selection Process: Up to ten participants will be appointed for the 2025-26 academic year. Participants will be selected on the basis of:
- Likelihood that the proposed project can be competed in one academic year
- Publication history to date
- Evidence of potential to contribute substantively to the work of the seminar, based on experience and expertise
Applications will be reviewed and recommendations will be made by the coordinator of the Research Seminar, Dr. Angela Weisl (angela.weisl@shu.edu), and the Director of the Center for Faculty Development, Dr. Mary Balkun (mary.balkun@shu.edu).
Applications (see below) should be submitted to Angela Weisl angela.weisl@shu.edu and Mary Balkun mary.balkun@shu.edu no later than August 25, 2025.
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH SEMINAR APPLICATION
Name:
Department:
Faculty Designation (tenure track Asst. Professor, non-tenure-track Asst. Professor, lecturer, faculty associate, instructor, clinical faculty):
Attachments:
____ Brief curriculum vitae that includes publications and presentations.
____ A description of the project you are hoping to complete by the end of the year, with an overview of the current state of the project and what remains to be completed. For the purposes of shared conversation, the project should be an article, a book chapter, or a book proposal.
____ Brief statement (maximum 500 words) why you believe that working with this group is likely to result in the completion of your project.