Register by August 11: Grant Proposal Development Workshop

August 3, 2022 Tom Birkland 3-min. read

College of Humanities and Social Sciences faculty are invited to a Grant Proposal Development Workshop from 12:15-4:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, in the Faculty Senate Chambers (2nd floor, West Wing of D. H. Hill Library).

Lunch will be provided (courtesy of the college’s Research and Engagement Office and the Department of Communication). Space is limited. Please register here by Wednesday, August 10 so we can confirm your lunch order if you plan to join us for lunch! Registration will remain open until August 16, but only those registered by August 10 will be provided lunch.

Workshop participants will benefit from coming with a project in mind: the goal is to leave the workshop with a letter of intent (LOI). Facilitators have experience obtaining significant external funding for digital humanities projects; this workshop is relevant to all genres/modes of humanities and social science research.

Facilitators

Dr. Vicki Gallagher, Professor of Communication, NC State University
Dr. Anthony Arrigo, Associate Professor, Department of English and Communication; Associate Director, Community Research and Partnership Initiative (CoRPI), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Outcomes

We suggest that a targeted and deliberate approach to introducing faculty to the opportunities and strategies for funded research will result in a higher quantity and quality of grant applications and external funding engagement for communications scholars. It will also help those faculty to promote an overall culture of grant writing and funded research, something that is often not part of faculty research agendas.

A structured, early-career investment in grant seeking, like the one we are promoting, will provide a pathway to overcome grant-seeking anxiety for new faculty, bolster grant-seeking for underrepresented groups, increase the diversity of grant-seekers in communication-related fields, grow funded research for communication faculty, and provide a framework for long-term sustainability. Participants will come away from this short course with an understanding of how to navigate and understand a funder’s RFP, practical advice for writing in this genre, and tailored resources, frameworks, and rubrics to help them get started writing grants.

Agenda

The workshop begins with lunch at 12:15 p.m. and a presentation from Dr. Arrigo about his funded VR Hoover Dam project and game.

The Grant Development Workshop will follow from 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Introduction to grant seeking
Introduction to grant seeking as a genre of writing
Building interdisciplinary teams and community partnerships
Exploring and understanding funding sources
Understanding the RFP
Pre-writing
Planning
Framing your research questions
Specific considerations of the grant writing genre
Writing the grant narrative
Writing for social impact
Writing for community engagement
Defining goals and objectives
Writing intellectual merit and broader impacts
Developing data collection methods and sustainability plans
Developing a budget
Publishing and promoting your findings
Maximizing Impact
Q&A

Reviews from previous workshop presentation at the National Communication Association (NCA):

“This was by far the most helpful NCA short course I’ve taken. Thank you for your time, attention, and expertise!”

“This was really great, the best NCA short course I’ve been to.”

“Thank you so much for your professionalism and expertise”

“All of the materials provided were extremely helpful resources, especially the financial resources.”

“I really liked that there were two people presenting and tag-teaming the effort – it added nice texture but also multiple viewpoints/experience with grant writing.”

“The organization of this course was excellent and enabled participants to understand later aspects of the course in greater depth. Later conversations in the session built nicely upon initial discussion topics.”