Are you new to the Australian research funding environment? Or struggling to achieve research grant success? Sprint 'Limber Up' is an ideal way to prepare yourself to apply for a research grant in Australia.
Sprint 'Limber Up' has been developed by GrantEd, Australia’s leading research grant development company. GrantEd has helped hundreds of brilliant researchers win over a billion dollars in competitive research funding over the past decade. Founded on best evidence principles of teaching and learning, this multi-modal, scaffolded course will help you learn how to develop competitive research funding proposals for the Australian research funding environment. Sprint 'Limber Up' is user-friendly, employs GrantEd’s highly regarded, real-world examples, explains important elements such as innovation, creativity and impact and will help you develop the skills to craft highly competitive research funding proposals.
- the main grants available for Australian researchers
- the different types of grants
- why research should meet the significant needs of academia, and stakeholders outside of academia (industry, government, community, consumers)
- what significance and impact mean
- what research leadership is
- why and how to argue your research is innovative, creative, high quality, and feasible
- the importance of environment (people, places and materials)
- how to find and work with mentors
- the importance of and how to undertake co-created research
- relevant ethical principles and guidelines.
Sprint 'Limber Up' will give you an overview of the essential information you need to know to write any research grant. Topics covered include:
- The funding landscape
- Essential elements of a research proposal
- Meeting the needs of stakeholders outside academia
- Meeting the needs of academia
- Understanding findings, outputs and outcomes
- Benefit/impact
- Innovative and creative research
- Aims, objectives and hypotheses
- High-quality and feasible research
- Methodology
- Engagement planning
- Co-created research
- Telling my professional story
- Ethical principles and guidelines
- Writing tips
When you have completed Sprint 'Limber Up', you will have developed several deliverables that will help you in your future research grant applications, including a:
- summary of your research focus and why it is significant
- short research proposal you can use as the basis for future research grant applications
- funding plan for your future research grant applications
- summary of your top 5 career outputs
- tailored innovation and creativity matrix.
Experiential learning enables you to actively participate in and leverage the application of new knowledge to real-world situations via concrete experiences, reflective observations, abstract conceptualisations, and active experimentation.
Scaffolded design breaks complex learning goals into digestible portions, with one portion of learning sequentially building on the previous via the active connection of new and old learnings, to demonstrate how to solve a problem independently.
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