Grant Writing - Training Opportunities
These resources, while developed with the postdoctoral trainee in mind, are useful to a broader group of individuals, including medical residents, study coordinators, and nursing or allied health students.
| On-campus Instructional Opportunities | Campus Resources | Online Resources |
On-campus Instructional Opportunities:
COMM DIS 900: Seminar on Grant Preparation - Grant Writing Course
3 credits; spring (except 2010)
Listed as "Seminar - Speech Science" in timetable. This seminar will focus on issues related to grant preparation and protocol development, with emphasis on challenges faced by new investigators in establishing an initial research program. The primary focus is on NIH funding, but alternative funding options will be explored. NIH funding programs aimed at new investigators will be reviewed, including F31, F32, R03, K series, R01, R21, P01, P30, and P50 awards. An overview will be provided of the structure of the NIH, components of grant applications and administration, scientific review process and revision process. Weekly course assignments and readings will be assigned, relevant to the student's discipline. A completed research grant proposal for an R03/R21 award (or equivalent) is the final class project.
ICTR Scientific Writing Workshop - Grant Writing Section
View information about the upcoming November 2009 offering of this workshop.
Select presentations from the March 2009 offering of this workshop are also available for online viewing via the IME video library.
Campus Resources:
The UW-Madison Writing Center
http://www.wisc.edu/writing
The Writing Center provides assistance for graduate students in writing proposals, dissertations, & other projects by providing individual consultations, workshops, and other services. Instructors can work with you on issues such as analyzing your style, organization, and arguments. Writing workshops are also offered; click the Classes link on the Writing Center's main page.
UW-Madison Libraries Grants Information Collection
http://grants.library.wisc.edu/index.html
The Grants Information Collection, located in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a collection of print and electronic materials that is open to the public. Collection users do their own research. The Grants Information Collection (GIC) is a cooperating collection of the Foundation Center, an independent national service organization in New York that is the "nation's leading authority on philanthropy."
UW-Madison Libraries - Subject Liaisons by UW Department
http://library.wisc.edu/directory/directory/liaisons
Subject librarians serve as liaisons to your department and can help you with questions about:
- Library services, collections, and policies (e.g., reserves, runners, Library Express, etc.)
- Collections and purchase requests
- Article alerts and customized searches
- Help managing information (e.g., RefWorks)
- In-depth reference consultations
- Customized instructional sessions and web-based Library Course Pages
- Citation verifications
- And more...
Online Resources:
NIH Center for Scientific Review website
http://cms.csr.nih.gov/
The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is the portal for NIH grant applications and their review for scientific merit. The CSR organizes the peer review groups or study sections that evaluate the majority (70%) of the research grant applications sent to NIH. The CSR also receives all grant applications for NIH, as well as for some other components of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
The CSR has produced a video of a mock study section meeting to provide an inside look at how NIH grant applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit. The video shows how outside experts assess applications and how review meetings are conducted to ensure fairness. The video also includes information on what applicants can do to improve the chances their applications will receive a positive review.
http://cms.csr.nih.gov/ResourcesforApplicants/PolicyProcedureReview+Guidelines/
OverviewofPeerReviewProcess/InsidetheNIHGrantReviewProcessVideo.htm
The CSR site also provides an overview of the Peer Review Process, available at:
http://cms.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/OverviewofPeerReviewProcess.htm
NIH Office of Extramural Research Grant website
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
Features information regarding NIH grant application basics, NIH grants process overview, how to apply, and award information and data
"Demystifying the NIH Review Process"
NIH Review Process Slides.pdf
From Duke University School of Medicine (Dec. 2008)
Presented by Rebbecca Moen, MBA
CTSA Program Manager, Duke Translational Medicine Institute
UW-Madison Libraries online RefWorks access
http://www.library.wisc.edu/refworks
RefWorks is a software application accessed from the UW Library website that will help you format bibliographies and citations automatically while you research, create and organize a personal research database online, access your information online from any computer, and share your database with colleagues around the world. Any UW-Madison student, faculty or staff can use RefWorks. It is provided for your use by the UW-Madison Libraries.
Steps in Proposal Submission at UW-Madison
http://www.rsp.wisc.edu/routing/proposalsub.html
From the Research and Sponsored Programs office website.
UW-Madison Writing Center Online Handbook
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html
The UW-Madison Writing Center's online handbook. Includes section on how to document references.
Department of Medicine Research Services - Grant Resources
http://www2.medicine.wisc.edu/home/research/grantresources
This site features links to information regarding grant procedures, research forms, funding opportunities and proposal writing guides, including potential examples of completed forms and proposals.
Contact: Betty Weiss, Research Services Director, at 262-7744 or
GradLink@Madison
http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/education/gsc/gradlink/gradlink.html
GradLink@Madison is a monthly email newsletter intended to inform graduate students of events and opportunities that support their professional development. It includes workshop announcements, fellowship opportunities, academic deadlines, volunteer opportunities, social events, and community events likely to be of broad interest to most graduate students.
UW Madison Research and Sponsored Programs
http://www.rsp.wisc.edu
The RSP office promotes and facilitates the research, education, and outreach missions of the University of Wisconsin-Madison by supporting and administering extramurally sponsored programs. The RSP office also provides workshops and training on grant preparation, as well as information on funding resources.
