The Centre for Leadership in Learning assumes that most applicants will use a word processor to type their proposals and therefore would find it more convenient to answer a list of questions than to complete a form. The questions are designed to help the reviewers assess how well the proposal meets the grant criteria. Where relevant, please comment on the relationship between this project and other initiatives in the Faculty. The key criterion for these grants is that the project should improve the quality of students' learning. The project should deal with an identified learning problem and the application should describe the evidence that led the applicant to decide that this was the problem.
Projects involving applied educational research are acceptable.
This is defined as research whose purpose is to determine how students in a particular class or course can learn more or more effectively. It does not extend to theoretical studies. The CLL does not fund projects that involve normal instructional tasks such as updating course content, preparing bibliographies, etc. The project should deal with the problem in a realistic way so that it stands a reasonable chance of being completed, of being evaluated, and of being accessible and useful to others. The grant fund is intended to provide seed money and not to support ongoing expenses.