Saint Joseph's University Faculty Scholarly Autism Research Grants

The Kinney Center’s two-fold mission to educate and train the autism professionals of tomorrow while supporting and serving individuals and families affected by autism today. In alignment with this mission, Kinney’s grants program aims to prioritize and support research with the following characteristics: 

- The project can be expected to result in meaningful, direct impacts for autistic individuals and/or their families. 
- The project provides scholarly research training experience for one or more SJU students that will directly enhance their autism-relevant academic and/or career development. 

Additional priorities include: 
- The project can be expected to result in a high quality scholarly output, such as a peer-reviewed scientific publication or a co-authored or co-edited book. 
- The project can be expected to lead directly to further scholarly developments or activities, such as a grant application or to build capacity for follow-up scholarly research activity at SJU. 

The ultimate aim of this grants program is to broaden and increase faculty engagement and productivity in autism-related scholarly research activity at Saint Joseph’s University.

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We welcome applications for a variety of types of scholarly research activities, including but not limited to quantitative research projects, qualitative research projects, and academic literature reviews. We also welcome applications from SJU Faculty to modify their existing scholarly research programs to focus one of their projects on the autistic population.

Applications to this program should be submitted by Monday, December 9, 2024, and should include the following. 

• Background information on the topic and the need for scholarly research 
• Methods to be used in the proposed project 
• Role and expertise of Faculty in the proposed project
• Role and benefits for SJU student(s) in the proposed project 
• Anticipated outputs for SJU Faculty and/or SJU student(s) from the project  
• Impact of the proposed project for the autistic population and/or their families 
• Proposed line-item budget, not to exceed $2,000 
• Applicants can include request for equipment/infrastructure up to $3,000 additional ($5,000 total grant application)
  • These requests should be specifically designed to establish re-usable equipment / infrastructure which will support longer-term autism research programs at SJU  
• Proposed timeline for the project (maximum 2 years of research activity)
• Current CV of SJU Faculty Applicant(s)

Please be sure to include in your application a realistic assessment of the feasibility of the proposed project and its timeline.

If your project would benefit or be dependent upon participation of the Kinney Center clients or families, please contact the Kinney Center at kinneyresearch@sju.edu well in advance of planning and submitting your application to discuss this aspect of your proposal.

Proposals submitted to this program will be considered and evaluated by a review board comprised of Kinney Center staff, SJU faculty external to the Kinney Center, and autistic self-advocates and/or individuals whose families are affected by autism. Funding decisions will be communicated to applicants in January 2025. 

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Reach out to our team directly today to discuss more about Research Grant Opportunities.

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