Faculty Fellows

FPG Fellows are UNC-CH faculty who actively collaborate with FPG investigators.  FPG expects Fellows to be engaged ambassadors who use and promote FPG resources, help build collaborations, and support sustainability — and in return, Fellows gain access to a powerful interdisciplinary network, core services, visibility, and infrastructure that strengthen their research, mentoring, and impact.  Fellows benefit FPG by fostering innovative and interdisciplinary work and increasing our visibility and impact across campus and beyond.

In addition to collaborating with FPG investigators on papers, proposals, and projects, Fellows are encouraged to be meaningfully involved with FPG in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

• Serve as an FPG ambassador with home units and UNC more broadly
• Share expertise at seminars and through participation in grant-writing groups, workshops designed to enhance investigator professional development, and other events
• Serve on committees such as Mentoring Committees, the Appointments and Promotions Committee, Management Team, and other ad-hoc committees
• Facilitate investigators’ connections with academic departments (e.g., co-supervise independent study students, invite FPG investigators to give talks in their classes)
• Use FPG core services and supports when feasible and share partial F&A through funded work
• Acknowledge FPG in grants and publications when appropriate
• Refer undergraduate and graduate students to FPG for research opportunities, when relevant
• Provide opportunities to FPG junior investigators to collaborate on papers and projects, and
• Provide pre-reviews of FPG grant applications 

Fellows are entitled to full membership in the community of FPG investigators and in all other activities of the Institute. They are invited to attend seminars, special events, investigator meetings, annual meetings, and celebrations. Their work can be promoted on FPG’s website and through our extensive e-news distribution.

Those Fellows who choose to submit applications and manage their research projects within FPG also will be provided with grant proposal and accounting services and basic IT support. Furthermore, they may access FPG’s other core support services (e.g., IT, data management, statistical analysis, instructional and web design), most of which require salary support for core services staff. Finally, research projects housed and administered through FPG may be granted space to support the work.

The criteria for being granted Fellow status are that: (1) the individual is an assistant, associate, full, or research professor in an academic or health affairs department at UNC-CH; (2) the faculty member’s work is aligned with FPG’s mission and strategic plan; and (3) the individual actively participates in the FPG community. UNC-CH faculty may apply for a Fellow appointment by contacting the FPG Associate Director for Research. Appointments are for 2 years with the potential for renewal.