InCHIP Services Support Research
InCHIP has a twenty-year history of supporting research in the behavioral and social health sciences at UConn. We offer a variety of programs, services, and resources to UConn health researchers free of charge. InCHIP support falls into three interconnected areas - Research Training and Development, Team Science and Collaboration, and Grants Management.
Are you new to InCHIP or not sure where to start? We would love to learn more about your research and discuss your needs - schedule a meeting with our Research Development Team.
Upcoming Events
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Dec
12
“Moving Beyond Implications: Research into Policy” Conference 11:30am
“Moving Beyond Implications: Research into Policy” Conference
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
11:30 AM - 06:00 PM
Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106
CT SSN is excited to partner with Representative Jaime Foster (D-57 (Ellington, East Windsor, and Vernon)), Representative Dominique Johnson (D-143 (Norwalk and Westport)), and UConn’s InCHIP to host the second “Moving Beyond Implications: Research into Policy” (Moving Beyond) conference. The conference will bring together academics, legislators, and other policymakers in advance of the 2025 Connecticut legislative session.When: Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 11:30am lunch | 12pm-6pm conference programming
Where: Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106 -
Feb
6
InCHIP Lecture Series: Social and Psychological Influences on Physical Health and Aging 12:30pm
InCHIP Lecture Series: Social and Psychological Influences on Physical Health and Aging
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP Lecture Series
Laura Kubzansky, MPH, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Topic: Social and Psychological Influences on Physical Health and AgingDr. Laura Kubzansky is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Society and Health Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also serves as co-Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program and is a sitting faculty member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Dr. Kubzansky received her Ph.D. (social psychology) from the University of Michigan, and completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship in social epidemiology as well as obtained her M.P.H. at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kubzansky has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health, with a particular focus on the effects of stress and emotion on heart disease. She also conducts research on whether stress, emotion and other psychological factors help to explain the relationship between social status and health. Other research projects and interests include a) studying the biological mechanisms linking emotions, social relationships, and health; b) relationships between early childhood environments, resilience, and healthy aging, and; c) how interactions between psychosocial stress and environmental exposures (e.g., lead, air pollution) may influence health.
Research Training and Development
InCHIP helps researchers move their research ideas to funded projects through one-on-one consultations, mentorship, pilot funding, and grant writing training. Listed below are a few of the programs available. You can learn more about all of InCHIP's services here.
Internal Funding Opportunities
InCHIP hosts several annual seed grant competitions. These seed grants provide pilot funding to investigators to stimulate new health research at UConn that ultimately leads to external funding.
Grant Writing Training
InCHIP is currently offering one program aimed at helping faculty and postdocs write NIH grants: the R-Series Boot Camp led by Seth Kalichman Psychological Sciences).
Proposal Feedback
Prior to submitting an external grant, InCHIP can provide feedback on grant proposals through the Grant Proposal Incubator (GPI), or can arrange and provide funds for an External Grant Review.
Find Funding or Build Your Team
InCHIP’s Research Development Specialist can work with UConn Faculty to build a targeted list of external funding mechanisms and help researchers identify and build collaborations across UConn.
Team Science & Collaboration:
Team science is in many ways at the heart of InCHIP’s mission – we strive to bring researchers together to develop innovative solutions to society’s most urgent health care challenges. Partnerships brokered by InCHIP span UConn departments, colleges, and campuses and represent the best of what team science has to offer – a problem-focused, solution driven perspective that allows new ideas to form at the edges of interdisciplinary fields and advances the science base through high-impact research discoveries. InCHIP can help researchers connect with other UConn-based researchers and clinicians. Listed below are a few of the programs available. To learn more about the services available click here.
Convergence Award Program
InCHIP's Convergence Awards Program is designed to prepare interdisciplinary teams at UConn to be competitive for convergence funding from NIH, NSF, and other funding agencies.
Faculty Research Collaboration Services
InCHIP can help researchers connect with other UConn-based researchers, community-based organizations, and clinicians based on the needs of their project or team.
InCHIP Ideas Labs
Ideas Labs are multi-day workshops held by institutions (and sometimes federal agencies) to spark creative solutions to complex problems by harnessing the collective energy of an interdisciplinary team. InCHIP works with creativity experts from KnowInnovation (KI) to implement Ideas Labs here at UConn.
InCHIP Grants Management & Business Services
InCHIP’s Grants Management Team provides InCHIP affiliates with the tools needed to submit and manage externally-funded projects. InCHIP’s Pre-Award services help faculty through the entire application process. Upon being awarded, InCHIP’s Grant Management Team will assist investigators in processing the grant through the life of the grant’s award period.