Grant Writing - Science topic

Public engagement opportunities are identified through staying informed, networking, and following relevant organizations. The frequency varies by project and field. While crucial in academia, industries also engage with the public for various reasons. Understanding public engagement enhances communication skills and contributes to corporate responsibility efforts.

Lots of people have lots of opinions, but unless this administrator is in line to review you for tenure and promotion, you can safely ignore their opinion.

In my experience, almost no gets "training" in how to write research proposals. If you are lucky, you get it via an apprenticeship with a more senior researcher. If not, then it can take a great deal of work to figure out how successful funding works. So, congratulations on your achievement, and "don't let the bastards grind you down."

It's not worth fighting. Just go somewhere else where you're appreciated and keep everything confidential to you until publication :)

by remote I mean, that you don't have to be in the country itself

Several companies are working on medical research writing, and some specialise in specific topics. You can search online for your area. This is an example: https://aidfm-cetera.com/service/medical-writing/.

Kindly, see also the following link: https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/08/07/improve-writing-skills

A strong and genuine motivation letter describes your aims, goals, and intentions. CV is just facts about you. If you endow the letter with the necessary elements for the potential supervisor, it will create all necessary conceptual environments for the supervisors to evaluate you. Good luck!

Hermann Gruenwald Dear Dr. please let me know about the hidden option..i would be glad if u could even personally msg me....it would be of great help....thankyou and regards

List of Travel Grants (International/National) for Indian Students/Researchers

1. DST International Travel Grant (International Travel Support, ITS)

2. EMBO Practical Courses and EMBO Workshops

3. IBRO Travel Grant: International Travel Grants International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO)

4. ICMR Travel Grant: International Travel by Non-ICMR Scientists ICMR

5. Conference, Travel, Exhibition and Popular Lectures (CTEP) Programme

6. Ratan Tata Trust and Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust Education grant- Travel grants

7. IBM Travel Grant for Resident INDIAN Students and Researchers

8. National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) (DAE)

9. Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) Travel Grants

10. Inlaks Research Travel Grants

11. Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay Travel Grants

12. The Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties Travel Grants

13. Indian Emblem Indian Council of Social Science Research Travel grant

14. Indian Council for Historical Research

15. The World Academy Of Sciences (TWAS) Research Grants

16. Indian Institute of Metals SJEF travel grants

17. Royal Society of Chemistry Travel Grants

18. Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) (International)

19. Indian Academy of Neurology Travel Grant

You can visit this page for complete detail. List of Travel Grants for Conferences (https://www.saveandtravel.in/travel-grants-for-conferences/). Good luck.

Maybe some publishing houses may do that but you have to have a good plot to your book for them to accept it

Other than the excellent resources suggested by Christopher J Graham, it would be good to study the instructions and templates provided by the grant funding agency. In addition, understanding the funding agency's goals and priority research areas could help guide the way that you "pitch" your proposal.

this link is useful

www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio300/mycorrhizae.htm

regards

You may want to check Keith F. Punch's book entitled Developing Effective Research Proposals published by Sage. The book includes 5 examples of good research proposals in chapter 8. I hope this helps.

Hi,

I think that you should apply to international funding agencies for support of your research. There are funding agencies that are not affiliated with a specific institution, but work internationally.

Hi Hanisah,

There are many factors - but perhaps the most common considerations are:

- An established team - with good leadership from the Chief Investigator who has an established track record in successful grant capture.

- A multi-disciplinary team which spans a number of related disciplines. 

- A team that includes members who are specialists in or can multi-task i.e. project management, IT and technology, method and methodology experts - such as statisticians. 

- A good publication record across all the team.

- Adhering closely to the scope and guidelines of the awarding body.

- A carefully crafted and complete submission that is well structured and thought through  i.e. careful and accurate budgeting etc.

Perhaps the attached chapter, while nursing-focused will assist, as the principles are generic related to applying for grants.

Interesting, Thank you !

This is absolutely to be considered. In my country, we still take notice of letters of recommendation for academic posts, grants, scholarships, and so on. They are in fact, mandatory. But your view is correct. 

Excess always leads to misbelief !

Dear Miguel,

How to get this grant for NGO? It was interesting.

Thanks

University of Florida, too, automatically returns a portion of indirect costs back to investigators. in addition, some funded retained by the central office are used for internal, competitive seed-funding programs. These programs are invaluable for junior investigator development and team science projects. 

Nelson - a somewhat broad question -  but one that can be answered 'in parts' - so you may get quite a few responses in this thread. I would 'start' by suggesting that, despite your lack of experience in grant writing, you are best to consider the nature and scope of your team initially. It may well not be a good idea to put yourself forward as Chief Investigator (CI) or Principle Investigator (PI). Grant proposal reviewers need to assess the ability of the investigators in the research team to undertake the research. Therefore, proposals require some information about the research team (e.g. name, qualifications, employment position) as a minimum. In some instances (e.g. NHMRC grants), a short biography (research track record) and publications list are necessary for each investigator. All authors on the research team should provide intellectual capital to the research project in a 'ranked order'; that is, they must actively participate in the project and contribute to the generation of knowledge. Following some unfortunate episodes of ‘honorary authorship’ to persons in authority who provided no academic input to the research and related publications, there are now guidelines on authorship, sponsorship and accountability, issued by, among others, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (Halperin et al. 2005), and Universities Australia http://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/. These types of resources may well assist in working through the grant process

@Giuseppe, it is very good to hear that you and your colleagues are working on grant submissions to Horizon2020. I would say that using RG you will receive some positive responses related to both proposal writing and partner search.

Sylvia

I am not sure about the exact focus of your question, but for the record, for me it has always been much easier to get money for collaborative research with experimental groups than any purely bioinformatic activities, such as algorithmic work or studying possibilities for new types of analyses, etc. Which also meant some of my best ideas remained unfunded and underdeveloped. This may also depend on the specific funding agency.

Hi Matt. I can assure you that your colleagues are not pulling your leg. Lay-out, formatting, esthetics...are really very important aspects of a good (and successful ;-) application. As you indicate, this may be surprising, and obviously, cosmetics can't substitute good science.

However, you need to put you into the position of the evaluator who usually has to plow through a large amount of applications in a minimal time. As an example, major EU grant applications, literally 100 of pages long, are often evaluated in a matter of a few hours.

So readability is paramount. Less is more in terms of text. Good illustrations (perhaps preliminary data supporting the application), Pert-charts etc. Air! Spacing between paragraphs, good, informative heading structure - all of this makes it easier for a stressed and tired evaluator to read through and even enjoy reading through your application.

Key to a good structure to know the evaluation criteria. These are often available as separate documents, but often over-looked by the applicants because the think this is just something for the evaluators to read. If you e.g. see that your application should be judged on "originality", then make damn sure that you have a sub-heading called "Project originality" where you explain the originality of your proposal. Sometimes this works like putting words in the mouth (or the mind) of the evaluators. While they form their own opinion of the originality, you've made sure that your point of view has come across. If it's a realistic, short and concise comment on the originality, an evaluator may actually use it.

Cheers, Thrandur

There is usually no prescribed format. (Ask!) Basically you should list your recent research publications, and include a full copy of a relevant paper. If you have supervised any students to completion, give the titles of their theses. Include a one page CV. Very important: include a 4-page research proposal, outlining the research you propose to do or continue. Include with a covering letter or covering E-mail. The committee will evaluate the person, the past, the project prognosis and practicalities and the probabilities.