Purpose of Fellowship
To equip individuals with the knowledge, leadership skills, mentorship, and peer support to develop and implement a strategic plan for building research capacity within their own programs, departments, or institutions.
Qualifications of fellows
Those who want to build research/scholarship in their institutions—which requires skills in leadership, research organization, and faculty development. Candidates have been asked to be a change agent for building their organization’s capacity for producing scholarly activity. The fellow’s organization should support development of that capability, including supporting the development of a strategic plan as a product of the BRC Fellowship. Fellows might be chairs, aspiring chairs, research directors, research change agents in a residency program, administrators or others charged with making change in the organization.
The Building Research Capacity (BRC) Fellowship has 3 aims:
- Coaching: Provide coaching support to build research and scholarship capacity within a program or institution
- Support: Develop a peer support/network among other individuals or teams trying to build research capacity
- Strategic Planning: Create a strategic plan for research and scholarship within their home program/institution
Curriculum overview
- The following curricular elements will be emphasized throughout the fellowship
- Leadership development
- Research tools and skills
- Fellows will be expected to:
- Attend the NAPCRG annual meeting at the beginning of the fellowship (November)
- Attend the NAPCRG annual meeting at the completion of the fellowship (November)
- Participate in scheduled webinars
- Produce required end products
- Faculty will:
- Provide coaching and support as fellows navigate through their fellowship year
- Offer feedback to the BRC Fellowship Leadership Team regarding fellow progress and areas for program improvement
- Evaluate the curricular products produced by fellows
- End products
- Vision statement for research/scholarship in their organization (department, program, institution)
- 3–5-year strategic plan for research/scholarship in their organization
- Research capacity assessments
- Stakeholder map
- Progress summary data and narrative
- Write a Leadership Philosophy identifying their leadership styles, strengths, and potential blind spots
- Summative presentation at NAPCRG
Application Process
- The application process for the fellows will begin May 9, 2023 and end July 31, 2023
- Required documents include:
- CV
- Personal statement describing why this fellowship is important for the applicant and what is to be gained
- Letter of recommendation from supervisor/chair, including intent to provide funding and protected time for the applicant
Tuition
- The tuition is $6,250 - which includes:
- NAPCRG Annual Meeting 2022 Registration and Membership
- ADFM 2022 Annual Meeting Registration
- NAPCRG Annual Meeting 2023 Registration and Membership
- Bimonthly Webinars and Workshops