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What is the best formula for writing a successful research grant proposal? Photograph: Alamy To many academics the following account may sound familiar: "I personally spend about a third of my time writing for grants, fellowships and PhD studentships – which is time I cannot spend helping to foster ongoing experiments. I've had a few funding successes, but not enough to wholly suspend the feverish activity needed to optimize my research performance. I've had to postpone entire promising side shoots of [my] project because there is not enough time or resources to do them credit." This is the experiece of Jenny Rohn, a cell biologist at University College London, who in a recent blog for Guardian Science's Occam's Corner , wrote about administerial pressures taking over her academic career, with funding forms leaving little time for the research itself.
Research funding: writing a successful grant proposal – live chat | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
Planning applications in batches is the best way to recover from post-rejection blues, says Andrew Derrington. Photograph: Alamy Read the eligibility rules
Research funding: 10 tips for writing a successful application | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
29 January 2013 by Tseen Khoo Gingerbreak man (Photo by Tseen Khoo) So, you’ve lost out on the major grant rounds for last year. It only took about eight months to find out, right? Often, you’ve waited with all of your career possibilities riding on the outcome. And you got nothing.
Picking up the pieces | The Research Whisperer
Under-representation of women at higher levels of faculty in the biomedical sciences has long been noted. 1 However, whereas differences in representation in academic sciences are clear, less is known about disparities in important indicators of research success that might partly account for such differences, such as success in obtaining funding. 2—4 For instance, the equity of amounts awarded to male and female awardees has not been assessed. We used publicly available data from grants awarded from Oct 1, 2000, to Sept 30, 2008, by a major UK biomedical funding body, the Wellcome Trust, to assess grant funding amounts awarded to women versus men. Gender was assigned to each primary recipient on the basis of name, with consensus agreement by GB and NTVD (internet searches resolved disagreements).
Gender inequality in awarded research grants
Preliminary evidence appears to show that this approach to responding to referees is - on balance - probably sub-optimal. (Photo by Tseen Khoo) This post is co-authored by Adam Golberg of Cash for Questions (UK), and Jonathan O’Donnell and Tseen Khoo of The Research Whisperer (Australia).
Responding to Referees | Cash for Questions: social science research funding, policy, and development
