Barbara Walker, Holly Unruh

Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demystifies the process of writing winning grant proposals in the humanities and social sciences. Offering practical guidance, step-by-step instructions, and examples of successful proposals, Unruh and Walker outline the best practices to crack the proposal writing code. They reveal the most common peeves of proposal reviewers and offer advice on how avoid common problem areas in conceptualizing and crafting a research proposal in the humanities and social sciences. Contributions from agency and foundation workers offer the perspective from the other side of the proposal portal. It is essential reading for all those involved in funding applications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9781611323191
• ISBN-10: 1611323193
• Artikelnr.: 48748348

Autorenporträt

Barbara L. E. Walker is the Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA, where she is also Special Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor for Diversity Initiatives. Walker was a founding Board Member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP). Holly E. Unruh is the Associate Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center at California State University, Monterey Bay, USA. She previously served as the founding Associate Director of the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, and Associate Director of the University of California Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I - Prelude to a Proposal1. Introduction
2. Finding Funding
3. Assessing Funding Fit and Feasibility
4. Getting Ready to Write
5. Focusing the Research Idea as a Grant or Fellowship Proposal
Part II - Parts of the Proposal6. Writing a Strategic Proposal
7. Writing the Introduction
8. Writing the Theoretical Orientation and Significance Section
9. Writing the Methodology, Procedures, Plan of Work Section
10. Writing the Budget and Justification
11. Other Proposal Sections
Part III- Working with Others12. Interdisciplinary and Collaborative
Research
13. Funding Public Scholarship
Part IV - From Failure to Funding14. Failure or Success: What Next?
15. Resources
16. Parting Words for Institutions and Investigators