Start-Up Grants for New Faculty

Start-Up Research Grants are designed to assist new faculty, within their first year of contract with ZU, to continue previous research or to seed new research.

Start-Up Grants aim to:
1. assist new faculty to continue ongoing research projects; or
2. seed new faculty directed research, which would normally be eligible for annual Research Incentive Fund (RIF) grant funding.

Start-Up Grant recipients are expected to apply for a RIF Grant in the next award cycle.

Application

Eligible faculty may apply for a Start-Up Grant by submitting the Research Project Description to their Director or academic Dean. Allocation of Start-Up Grant funding is at the discretion of the Director or Dean.

The Office of Research will allocate funding for Start-Up Grants to the ABP Director and College Deans in the Fall semester of each year.

Expenditure and Accountability

On award of a Start-Up Grant, the Director or College Dean notifies the Office of Research and forwards a copy of the completed Research Project Description.

A cost-code specific to the research project is created and the faculty member notified. All expenditure against this cost-code should then be forwarded through the Office of Research for verification.

Start-Up Grants will be closed on the submission date of the next RIF proposal call and may not be extended.

Start-up grant recipients are required to submit a Final Report.

2010/2011 Recipients

2010-2011 Zayed University Start-Up Grants offered to New Faculty
College/ Department	Budget 2010-11	Faculty Awarded	Project Amount	Title of Project
ABP	6,500 AED	David Jeffrey	1,000 AED	Matching Student Aspirations with Educator and Administrator Expectations in the Academic Bridge Program of ZU
		Laila Hawker	2,000 AED	Something Gained, Something Lost - Arabic, English and Identity in Cross-Cultural Contact (PH.D.)
		Mehtap Kocatepe	3,500 AED	An exploration of ABP Students' out-of-class learning activities
CAS	39,007 AED	Elizabeth Monoian	5,000 AED	Land Art Generator Initiative NYC 2012 Design Competition
		Man Cheung Chung	5,000 AED	Posttraumatic Stress disorder following anaphylaxis: The roles of coping and personality
		Michele Bambling	4,007 AED	Conversations with Japan's Living National Treasures: Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Artistic Practices
		Yasmine Abbas	4,600 AED	Foundation Study for the Evaluation of the Estidama Implementation Process
		Susanne Kranz	7,700 AED	Women's Movements in Chennai
		Suzanne Joseph	7,700 AED	Class, Gender and the Demographic Divide
		Rima Sabban	5,000 AED	Narrating the 'Silenced' history of Domestic Slavery in the UAE through the Colonial Archives
CBS	25,998 AED	Catherine Nickerson	4,333 AED	The Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility in the United Arab Emirates
		Perihan Iren	4,333 AED	Investability and Crises
		Marc Poulin	4,333 AED	Status of Mass Customization in the Emirate of Dubai
		Shereef Ellaboudy	4,333 AED	GCC Monetary and Economic Integration
		Thomas Clausen	4,333 AED	Islamic Banking and the Use of the Balanced Scorecard
		Winifred D. Scott	4,333 AED	Creating a balanced scorecard to analyze corrections corporation of America, a private prison
CCMS	25,998 AED	Matt Duffy	8,666 AED	The National and the UAE Press: A comparative analysis
		Janis Page	8,666 AED	The Impact of Visual Images on U.S. Citizens' Attitudes about the United Arab Emirates
		Birgit Trauer	8,666 AED	Risk in Adventure Tourism: Expectations, Experiences and Interpretation - a matter of motivation or emotion
CE	13,000 AED	Kennon Rider	13,000 AED	SWOT Analysis of Dubai's Early Childhood Education Sector
CIT	13,000 AED	Mario Guimaraes	7,000 AED	Design and Develop Videogames that will aid in teaching
		May ElBarachi	6,000 AED	Service-Oriented Network Virtualization: Architecture and Uses Cases
University College	13,000 AED	Michelle Elghardgui	13,000 AED	Types of Freshman Year Experience Models used Internationally
Library	5,000 AED
IWS	6,500 AED	AbuBaker Ibrahim	6,500 AED	Developing an Integrated Approach for University Textbook in Islamic Civilization

2009/2010 Recipients

2009-2010 Zayed University Start-Up Grants offered to New Faculty
College/ Department	Budget 2009-10	Faculty Awarded	Project Amount	Title of Project
ABP	20,000 AED	Tara Waller	10,000 AED	Instructor perceptions of leadership and professional motivations in EFL

CAS	50,000 AED	Scott Morrison	10,000 AED	The Development of Civil Society & Its Impact on Political Participation
		Adam Hanieh	8,980 AED	GCC Regional Integration & International of capital in Bahrain, Qatar & UAE
		Stephane Laurent	5,848 AED	Art, Light and Technique
		Munawwar Khan	10,000 AED	Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Streptococcus and Staphylococcus Species in the United Arab Emirates
		Akbar Keshodkar	9,601 AED	Ethnographic fieldwork in Zanzibar
CBS	20,000 AED	Jack Zimmerman	4,000 AED	The paradox of Corporate Entrepreneurship
		Amal Al-Sawad	5,040 AED	An ethnographic study of a multicultural organization in the Arabian Gulf – context and culture, challenge and change
		Estelle Toomey	5,200 AED	Expatriate job satisfaction within a multicultural workplace in the UAE
		Constance Van Horne	2,700 AED	Value creation through community engagement and outreach: a multi-actor view from the UAE
		Scott Campbell	3,000 AED	Adjusting to Working in the GCC as a Female
CCMS	10,000 AED
CE	10,000 AED	Lydia Barza	5,000 AED	Home Literacy Practices in the United Arab Emirates
		Peter Parker	5,000 AED	Examining the reading strategies of monolingual and bilingual Emirati children.
CIT	10,000 AED	Ibrahim Baggili	4,000 AED	Investigating the Forensic Linguistic Analysis of SMS Messages
		Peter Cox	3,000 AED	The Impact of using Virtualization in teaching and Learning of Computer Networks
		May AlTaei	3,000 AED	Study of Best Practices in Knowledge Management at the UAE: A System-Based Approach
University College	20,000 AED
Library	10,000 AED	Bridie Farah, Zola Maddison, and Jennifer Snoek-Brown	10,000 AED	Information Literacy Perceptions of ZU Faculty