The UW Bothell/Cascadia College Library is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows grant, a Library-sponsored opportunity for UW Bothell faculty. The Library seeks to support 1-2 UW Bothell faculty in developing a digital scholarship project over the course of the 2023-2024 academic year. Faculty Fellows will receive a $5000 stipend and support from the Library’s Head of Digital Scholarship and Library staff. Applications are due October 20, 2023. Please read about 2021-2023 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows’ projects on our DS@UWB blog.
Award
The award for Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows includes the following:
- $5000 stipend to be used to fund your own research and development time, paid undergraduate student assistance, supplies, or other pre-approved costs
- Library support, including:
- Project hosting in any of the UW Libraries’ DS Hosting tools and platforms, including WordPress, Pressbooks, Omeka, etc.
- Digital scholarship consulting services, including project planning, choosing tools and platforms, copyright, metadata, open pedagogy assignment design, digital archives, open publishing, web accessibility, etc.
- Staff technical support with UW Libraries’ DS Hosting tools and platforms
- Teaching partnerships, if relevant
- Project publicity and impact
- Budget support from the Library Administrator
Requirements for Fellows
Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows are expected to:
- Develop a DS project using the UW Libraries’ DS tools and platforms, with a shareable result by June 1, 2024
- Develop a project that is fully Open and follows accessibility best practices
- Work with your department’s Administrator in purchasing and making arrangements for payment of student payroll. All applicable UW purchasing and employment policies and procedures must be followed
- Contribute a blog post about the project to the Library’s DS@UWB blog
- Participate in occasional UW Libraries events, assessments, or publicity/outreach efforts
Selection Criteria
In choosing Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows, the Library will prioritize project proposals that meet the following criteria:
- Project will use Library platforms and services
- Project will be fully Open and accessible
- Project will contribute to campus, library, and digital scholarship priorities and values of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Application includes a budget
- Funds will be used to support undergraduate researcher(s) working on the project with faculty
How to Apply
In a one-page document, please address the following:
- What is your vision for this project?
- How does this project align with Digital Scholarship Priorities and Values, based on UW Bothell’s and the Library’s social justice equity, diversity, and inclusion priorities and values?
- What types of support do you anticipate you will need from the Library?
- Will you have collaborators or partners?
- Will there be an open pedagogy component to your work?
- Will you be including undergraduate researcher(s) in your project?
- Include a tentative budget.
Send the one-page document and budget via email to Richard Lewis, Associate Dean of UW Bothell and Cascadia College Library (rlewis88@uw.edu), and Denise Hattwig, Head of Digital Scholarship (dhattwig@uw.edu). Please contact Denise Hattwig, Head of Digital Scholarship, with any specific questions. We look forward to hearing from you!
