Psychology

Grant submissions for the Department of Psychology are done in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Research Office (CLAS RO).

The CLAS RO primary contact email address is resoffice@clas.ufl.edu. All requests for assistance should be sent to that address.

CLAS RO is available to assist with all of the internal paperwork, agency forms, and proposal routing using the UFIRST system. Please contact them early in the proposal development process but no later than 10 business days prior to the funding agency’s submission deadline.

UF Office of Research, Division of Sponsored Research (DSP) has comprehensive information on all aspects of proposal processing and award management.

If you are applying for the first time to a federal agency (e.g., NIH, NSF, DoD, or CDC) you will have to get a user name and password for their site. For example, to initiate the NIH “Commons” registration process, visit the DSP Forms web page and complete the NIH Commons Registration Form. You only have to register once (but passwords need to be updated periodically).

Frequently Used Facts – most grant applications ask for a lot of institutional information; much of this information can be found here.

Your proposal must be submitted using UFIRST, which you can access at https://my.ufl.edu/ps/signon.html
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For NIH grants, the following is needed by DSP, although all grants have similar requirements. All documents should be attached in UFIRST.

1. Solicitation number must be entered.
2. Budget – this must be entered in UFIRST, an excel attachment will not be accepted in place of entering the budget. You must include a 3% salary inflation rate, and a 5% tuition inflation rate; if this is an NIH proposal you must also enter a salary cap of $185,100.00 under personnel costs.
3. Budget Justification – is also required by the Dean of CLAS.
4. Scope of work – is also required by C&G.
5. Disclosure of Conflict of Interest Form: http://research.ufl.edu/faculty-and-staff/forms.html
   1. The FCOI form must be added in UFIRST Smartform under 2.1; 1.0 Select UF Personnel.
6. If UF will receive a sub-contract on your behalf, please check with the PI at the Prime Institution to obtain any necessary documents Proposal Processing will need to send to them. Please upload as an attachment in UFIRST, if they need a letter of intent and they do not provide you with one, see templates: http://research.ufl.edu/faculty-and-staff/forms.html
7. If you are receiving a sub-contract or if this is a non-federal grant please indicate in 7.0 of the Smartform (who, when, where, and how) to send your submission.
8. Cost Sharing Documentation if any, see below:
   1. https://research.ufl.edu/dsp/proposals/budgeting/cost-sharing.html
   2. For Mandatory Cost Sharing: You will need a copy of the funding agency’s guidelines and their written commitment from the individual authorized to commit the resources.
   3. For Non-mandatory or Voluntary Committed (offered to the sponsor in a proposal): You will need a CLAS Dean’s written approval. The Chair has a form letter for this purpose.
9. If you are working with CLAS RO for proposal processing, you no longer need the Department “No Additional Grant Resources” form. However, if you are not processing with a point person from CLAS RO listed in UFIRST, you will need to complete this
   • GrantCert.pdf
10. Once you have completed UFIRST, please contact Cindy Heesacker to review.
    • You will then need to press “Certify” under My Activities
    • Next you will need to press “Submit for Review and Approval “ under My Activities
    • Once all of the Science is complete in the SF424 you will need to press “Ready for Submission to Sponsor” under my Activities
    • If you are not submitting a federal project and your submission is complete press the “Submit for Review and Approval” and “Ready for Submission to Sponsor”.