Douglas W. Bray and Ann Howard Research Grant

General Procedures and Policies

The grant submission package must include a grant proposal (see formatting guidelines below). The proposal should describe how the research will have a significant impact on assessment center methods and/or the development of managers and leaders.

The principal investigator of the project must be a SIOP member (which includes Student Members) and must submit the research proposal. Proposals submitted with a Student as the principal investigator must include a letter of endorsement from a SIOP professional member.

To encourage wide participation and a large variety of individuals and institutions involved in the program, an individual can only be involved in one proposal per review cycle per grant. In addition, individuals who received a Bray-Howard Grant within the last two years are ineligible. Before submitting a grant proposal, check with each of your co-authors to ensure that neither of these requirements is being violated.

When submitting application materials, applicants will also be asked if they are being investigated, or have been found responsible, for misconduct prohibited in SIOP’s Anti-Harassment Policy and to provide a brief explanation if this is the case.

Guidelines for Proposal Budgets

The explicit policy of the Bray-Howard Grant Program is that grant funds may not be used for overhead or indirect costs. In the committee’s experience, most universities will waive overhead and indirect costs under two circumstances: (a) the grant is relatively modest in size (e.g., under $10,000), and/or (b) the awarding institution (i.e., SIOP Foundation) does not allow it. If the above statement disallowing funds to be used for overhead is insufficient,  a Chair of the  Awards Committee will provide additional documentation and evidence explicitly recognizing this policy.

The Bray-Howard Grant can be used in conjunction with other funding for a larger-scale project. In this case, the proposal should describe the scope of the entire project, the entire budget, and the portion of the budget for which SIOP award money will be spent.

In addition, grant funds should not be used to pay for ancillary costs related to the project (i.e., publication or presentations at conferences, such as open access and registration/travel costs).