Center for Business and Economic Research | Undergraduate Research Award 2023-24 | 3rd Round Call
Center for Business and Economic Research is accepting the application for “Undergraduate Research Award 2023-24”. The award is meant to support promising final year undergraduate research projects which demonstrate academic merit and genuine financial need to meet field data collection and other research related expenses, excluding stipends and purchase of hardware e.g., mobile phone, or tablet(s). This year, we too have funds for 10 awards. An awardee may receive a grant of upto PKR 75,000 depending on the nature of their project activities.
Eligibility:
Applicant must:
- Possess an active full-time enrollment in SSES ‘s Bachelor Programs
- Be engaged in ongoing work on their approved CE project
- Have already a willing faculty designated by department to supervise their research
- Be on track for their degree and free of unjustifiable delays or extensions
- Ideally not having any other source of funding for the same project. However, if it is, it must be duly mentioned in the application form.
How to apply:
The students shall submit their research proposal/partial or complete report (if project is near to complete or completed) on the prescribed format (see at the end of this call) to CBER by emailing at cber@iba.edu.pk on or before April 8, 2024. The form can be downloaded from our website https://cber.iba.edu.pk/cber-undergraduate-research-award-2022-23-2nd-round-call.php
Process:
- All research proposals will be vetted by a three-member committee.
- Awardee will be selected and get award conformation letter/email
- Awardee will attend a briefing session on how they may utilize funds
- Awardee will spend allocated funds in the manner prescribed in the award letter.
- Awardee shall submit a quarterly project progress report
- Project completion letter/email by the Department to show that the thesis has been completed and submitted to the Department satisfaction and that CBER’s support has been acknowledged in the prescribed manner.
- Awardee will submit a two-pager ‘Research Brief’ for the CBER’s website.
- CBER shall close the project financially and administratively and issue a project completion certificate to the awardee
Expectations:
- Grantees are expected to produce above average quality research closely on the lines proposed in the application for award and secure a minimum B+ level thesis grade. In case of securing lower grade, student submits a one-page reflection report honestly describing the reasons. No further queries will be made by CBER, or Department and the reflection shall be accepted as such. Learning from your experience may however be used anonymously for the training purposes to improve the quality and process of future CE projects.
- All CE grantees are expected to acknowledge CBER’s support in the final line of acknowledgement section of their thesis/final report with the statement, “This project has been completed with funding support of the Center for Business and Economic Research under their Undergraduate Research Award No. xxxx.” Similar acknowledgment is supposed to be made for any other outlet of research such as conference or journal paper’s acknowledgement section.
- Grantees should be prepared to make a brief presentation of their research at CBER’s in an event that may be organized by CBER specially for the purpose.
More information:
In case of any query please contact CBER team at cber@iba.edu.pk.