| Founded: |
July 2000 |
| Funding: |
$40, 000 per year |
| Purpose: |
to encourage the development of research programs and
initiatives in the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University and
generate greater public awareness of the Faculty's high levels of
scholarly expertise and creative productivity. |
| Specific goals: |
use of HRI funding (1) to support the development of
individual and collaborative research programs, (2) to generate
viable applications for external funding of various kinds, and (3) to
promote the activities of the Faculty of Humanities through various
colloquia, symposia and related public events. |
| Organization: |
the Institute is administered by a Director,
appointed for a two-year period, in consultation with an Advisory
Board consisting of five Research Institute Associates (including the
Dean of Humanities ex officio). The Director receives one
half-course teaching remission at this point. A full course remission
per year will be offered to the Director beginning in 2003-2004. |
| Membership: |
there are currently 100 HRI Associates at Brock for
the academic year 2007-2008. As part of the application process, each
Associate files a Research Plan with the HRI, consisting of a
one-page statement summarizing research interests, ongoing projects,
past accomplishments, awards and grants history, along with a current
copy of his or her C.V. All full-time, tenured or tenure-track
faculty in Humanities are eligible for Associate Status. Research
Plans and CVs must be updated annually in the spring. |
| Research Plans: |
the Humanities Research Institute defines
"research" broadly and inclusively, recognizing that
research, scholarship, and creative activity in the Humanities take
many forms, and that individuals may have more-or less-defined
research and/or performance programs in place at different stages in
their scholarly lives. It thus welcomes research "plans"
that take a variety of forms - some consisting of formally set-out
statements of intention with respect to the next few years, and
others involving statements of a more general and exploratory nature
with regard to work newly begun or still at a ruminative stage of
development. |
| Associate Status: |
Associates are eligible to compete for HRI Research
Awards (two competitions are held per year, in January and again in
June) or for HRI support for conferences or colloquia in the
Humanities that they are organizing. As well, although the HRI does
not administer Dean's Travel Award funding, only Associates are
eligible to apply to the Dean for such funding in support of
conference travel. |
