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Developing Your Capacity

Developing Your Capacity. Research Beyond the Book ( RBtB ). Jan 2019. For Funding & Doing Sponsored Research. Top Tips & Best Practices. Things To Think About. Who are your primary funders? What type of research do you want to do? What skills do you need to develop?

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Developing Your Capacity

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  1. Developing Your Capacity Research Beyond the Book (RBtB) • Jan 2019 • For Funding & Doing Sponsored Research

  2. Top Tips & Best Practices

  3. Things To Think About Who are your primary funders? What type of research do you want to do? What skills do you need to develop? Will you need partners, collaborators, access to institutions or sites? If you have been successfully funded, what are your next steps?

  4. Research Development Tools

  5. Funding Support Tools • Funding Info Portal: grantsinfo.unc.edu • Types of Information • Funding Search Databases • Awards Made • Expertise Databases • Subject Area Information • Funding Databases • Carolina Internal Funding Database • SPIN Plus • Foundation Center Directory

  6. General Funding Types

  7. Grant Roles

  8. Timeline Overview SUBMIT GRANT TO SPONSOR / AGENCY (if electronic system upload items 2-3 days before due)

  9. Researcher Support Offices • Research Support Offices at UNC-CH are oriented by the position of the scholar. • The Graduate Funding Information Center (GFIC) serves graduate students. • The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs serves postdoctoral scholars. • The Office of Research Development (ORD) serves faculty.

  10. Additional Campus Support

  11. Simplifying Grant Prep • Don’t reinvent the wheel for every grant • Take the time to prep High Quality Standardized Grant Sections for Federal and Private Funders • Institutional Boiler Plate • Training / Research Plans • Broader Impacts Statements

  12. Strategies for Success • Mapping Your Goals, Needs, Timing

  13. Strategies for Success • Reading Successful Proposals

  14. Strategies for Success • Broader Impacts • AKA: • The “So What?”

  15. New Trends: Visualization • Help Reviewers and Funders Quickly Engage with your Research • An Image-based version of the elevator pitch, main arguments, or findings • Infographic formats are great for this and can be used for compliance reporting as well • Also make great marketing material for websites / social media

  16. Strategies for Success • Seek • Mentors for • Multiple • Aspects of • Your • Development

  17. Strategies for Success • Peer Writing / Review Groups This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC

  18. Reminders • Your Research & Funders Interests should Align • Don’t Change Your Work to Get Funding • Building Relationships w/ Private Funders is a Long-Term Process • Sponsors Fund PIs They “Know” will Succeed • Start w/ Smaller Funding Opps & Build Up • Contact Program Officers to Talk about Fit for Programs

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