Did
I need a research grant?
About a month ago the GrantDoctor expressed the opinion that, despite what many postdocs think, you don't
need a research grant to get a job at a major research university and that, in fact, it's difficult and rare for a postdoc to get a research grant.
True or not, the idea that
you need a research grant to get a job is, apparently, an entrenched part of the postdoc mythology.
Not exact matches
Ultimately,
Grant's
research suggests that our ideas about workplace politics might
need some updating.
The result, the
research shows, is those in
need of help tend to stop asking for it after the first no, whilst those in a position to help are MORE likely to
grant a favor if they're asked twice.
@Acroyear: «Researchers however, can access other sources of
research, or do their own, targeted
research for whatever it is they
need, using
grants from the government, which I have no issue with.»
To reduce your
need for federal or private loans,
research and apply for
grants to help limit your education costs.
Since the fund was created, more than $ 350 million has been
granted to community organizations supporting veterans, poverty alleviation, medical
research and other significant areas of
need.
Much
research in universities has long been supported by
grants from industry and shaped to its
needs.
Common reasons provided by industry included overly complicated intellectual property arrangements, priority misalignment (publications and
grants of
research vs commercial outcomes of industry) and a lack of quality translators who can understand both business
needs and scientific solutions.
Research just published by
Grant Thornton highlights that the Irish food and beverage sector
needs to look beyond the «greenness» of food production.
Through the collaborative IBC
research grants and the recent matching gift campaign we're developing a new model for meeting the needs of those facing an IBC diagnosis,» said Ginny Mason, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the IBC Research Fou
research grants and the recent matching gift campaign we're developing a new model for meeting the
needs of those facing an IBC diagnosis,» said Ginny Mason, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the IBC
Research Fou
Research Foundation.
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Sammakia would not say how much financial help SUNY Poly
needs, but it will likely be a mix of state aid from the SUNY budget and debt relief perhaps from the
Research Foundation for SUNY, which oversees
grants to SUNY schools.
The Mesothelioma Institute received several state
grants supported by then Speaker Silver to carry out much -
needed research is a non-issue.
While the entire system of
grants, subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives
need to be reformed, a line item that
needs to be looked into is funding for energy
research, which accounts for 9 billion dollars.
Graduate schools generally concentrate so exclusively on university - based
grant - funded
research that exposure to the skills and knowledge
needed outside academe is often scarce to nonexistent.
Thus if you are looking for third - party funding for your Ph.D.
research, you
need to try to motivate your supervisor to apply for funding from a
grant - giving agency on your behalf.
The Society awarded $ 120,000 in
grants to science
research teachers to purchase much - needed equipment and $ 55,000 to 13 innovative organizations supporting community - based science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects through our STEM Action & Research Grant
research teachers to purchase much -
needed equipment and $ 55,000 to 13 innovative organizations supporting community - based science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects through our STEM Action &
Research Grant
Research Grant Program.
To be competitive, I
need a federally funded
research grant to list alongside those publications in prestigious journals.
10 December 2013 Fatma Kaplan After applying unsuccessfully for nearly 150 faculty jobs, Fatma Kaplan concludes that what she really
needs is a federal
research grant.
For decades, the educational
needs of students and postdocs have taken a back seat to universities»
need for cheap, skilled workers to perform
grant research.
UCSF's
Grant stresses that people
need many options to prevent transmission of HIV and that all of these advances that
research has provided during the past year must be put into action.
On the academic side, if you want to be on the faculty at a
Research I university, you'll most likely
need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of
grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.
T32 programs — Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants — allow institutions to award their own fellowships «to prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the health - related research needs of the Nation,» according to a notice issued in March 2011, late in the study
Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional
Research Training Grants — allow institutions to award their own fellowships «to prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the health - related research needs of the Nation,» according to a notice issued in March 2011, late in the study
Research Training
Grants — allow institutions to award their own fellowships «to prepare qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the health - related
research needs of the Nation,» according to a notice issued in March 2011, late in the study
research needs of the Nation,» according to a notice issued in March 2011, late in the study period.
Scientists write the
grant proposals and do the
research, but the
grant, which often also provides at least part of the professor's salary, is technically awarded to the university, which administers it and provides the facilities
needed to do the
research in return for overhead payments.
Sadly, these days such aspirations are overshadowed by fierce competition for papers,
grants, and the tenured positions trainees
need to build independent careers in academic
research.
For decades, the Tourette Association of America has led the way in
research and therapeutic development for Tourette Syndrome and other Tic Disorders, and has provided more than $ 20 million in
grants to fund
research and develop medical programs that meet the
needs of those affected by Tourette.
For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them —
Research Universities states that the great
need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching,
grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»
«We're advocating for the bill because of the
need to get NIH back on track,» says Jennifer Poulakidas of the Association of Public and Land -
grant Universities in Washington, D.C. «If there's the possibility of expanding that approach to all federally funded
research, then we'd be in favor of that, too.
Do you
need an R01
grant to get a job at a tier - I
research university?
Institutions
need to register both with NIH's Electronic
Research Administration Commons (eRA Commons) and the government's central
grants portal,
Grants.gov.
«There's a great hunger for
research in Germany's university system, and we
need greater resources to meet that demand,» says biochemist Ernst - Ludwig Winnacker, president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the
granting agency with the biggest pot of basic -
research funds for German university scientists.
In fact, according to the 2000 National
Research Council report, Addressing the Nation's Changing
Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists, Ph.D. scientists were named as PIs on more clinical
grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality than M.D.s or M.D. / Ph.D. s in fiscal year 1997 in the United States.
The first question that
needs to be considered is whether a postdoc can get a
research grant.
«At the same time, we recognize that
research institutions that employ postdocs will
need to readjust the salaries they pay to postdocs that are supported through other means, including other types of NIH
research grants.
Funding was provided by the University of Missouri
Research Board and
Research Council; the Doris D. and Christine M. Brown Fellowship; the USDA National
Needs Fellowship; and a USDA International Science and Education
Grant.
Montague Demment, who studies international agricultural development at the Association of Public and Land -
grant Universities in Washington, D.C., calls the atlas «absolutely unique» and predicts that it will help set
research priorities and bring attention to the
need to invest in raising yields.
Graduate students aren't usually eligible for the big money
needed to finance all of their
research, but they are eligible for oodles of smaller
grants.
Research development officers often cover a wide range of topics, so you need to be comfortable working in scientific fields outside your own: Joanna Downer, associate dean of research development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, ch
Research development officers often cover a wide range of topics, so you
need to be comfortable working in scientific fields outside your own: Joanna Downer, associate dean of
research development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, ch
research development at Duke University School of Medicine, notes that in 7 - and - a-half years of working in the area, she has yet to work on a
grant involving her Ph.D. discipline, chemistry.
Over her years in
research development, AtKisson has seen top - tier
research institutions shift from believing that their faculty doesn't
need help writing
grants to recognizing that, no matter how talented their faculty members are, funding is «so hypercompetitive that they
need all the help that they can get,» she says.
Clearly, we
need to develop mechanisms that ensure novel
research ideas get a fair hearing from
granting bodies.
By partnering with Science Buddies to create Project Ideas based on your
research, you can help inspire thousands of students, annually, while meeting your own academic outreach and
research grant funding
needs.
Through the collaborative IBC
research grants and the recent matching gift campaign we're developing a new model for meeting the needs of those facing an IBC diagnosis,» said Ginny Mason, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the IBC Research Fou
research grants and the recent matching gift campaign we're developing a new model for meeting the
needs of those facing an IBC diagnosis,» said Ginny Mason, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the IBC
Research Fou
Research Foundation.
«It
needs to be incubated to generate enough data to attract an investor or rely on
grants to fund
research,» he said.
«CBN venture
grants and postdoctoral fellowships have provided a wonderful mechanism for developing novel
research projects and for generating critical preliminary data
needed to make our NIH
grants competitive,» said CBN Researcher Larry Young, Ph.D., of Emory University.
There are many urgent
needs for short - term spending on science, such as infrastructure spending and bridge
grants to allow
research to continue until longer - term funding proposals are successful.
Three years into that position, I realized that I was not able to pursue the
research I wanted to do because the university did not have the
research infrastructure and
grant - processing office I
needed to perform translational
research.
Other critical
needs, however, require longer - term commitments, such as an increase in success rates for investigator - initiated
research grants, which typically involve commitments of continued funding over 3 - 5 years.
Responsive to the
needs of the community, the AAS reviews and issues small
research and travel
grants (sponsored by the AAS, NASA, and the NSF), holds town meetings with agency representatives, and has recently demonstrated its leadership in preparing The American Astronomical Society's Examination of Graduate Education in Astronomy (funded by the NSF; AAS, 1997).