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By: Robert J. Sternberg
In: Writing Successful Grant Proposals from the Top Down and Bottom Up
Chapter 1: Securing a Research Grant
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483387628.n1
Subject: Finance/Funding/Grantwriting, Research Methods in Psychology (general)
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Sternberg, R. (2014). Securing a research grant. In R. J. Sternberg Writing successful grant proposals from the top down and bottom up (pp. 3-24). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781483387628.n1
Sternberg, Robert J. "Securing a Research Grant." In Writing Successful Grant Proposals from the Top Down and Bottom Up, 3-24. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781483387628.n1.
Sternberg, R 2014, 'Securing a research grant', in Writing successful grant proposals from the top down and bottom up, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 3-24, viewed 16 July 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781483387628.n1.
Sternberg, Robert J. "Securing a Research Grant." Writing Successful Grant Proposals from the Top Down and Bottom Up. Robert J. Sternberg. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. 3-24. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 16 Jul. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781483387628.n1.
Securing a Research Grant
Robert J.Sternberg
When I started as an assistant professor in 1975, I was offered $5,000 in seed money from my university to start up my research. I had no extramural (outside) funding. A quarter century later, I had more than $6 million in extramural funding. But, there were some years that I seemed to have the golden touch in getting grants and other years in which everything I touched seem to turn to lead. Oddly, I never could predict which grant proposals would get funded, even after years of experience writing proposals.
That is the first lesson you need to learn about securing research grants. The grant-getting process is uncertain: One never knows which grant proposals will be funded, nor ...
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Chapter 8: While You're Up, Get Me a Grant! Grantsmanship from the Perspective of a Retired National Science Foundation Grant Giver
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Chapter 10: Obtaining Department of Defense Funding for Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Chapter 11: Writing Grant Proposals for Military Agencies
Chapter 12: Preparing Institute of Education Sciences Applications: There's (Almost) an App for That
Chapter 13: Securing Support for High-Quality Scientific Research and Development in Educational Sciences
Chapter 14: Diversifying Your Funding Portfolio: The Role of Private Funders
Chapter 15: Seeking Funding from Private Foundations
Chapter 16: Funding Opportunities at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chapter 17: Building a Strong Institutional Research Training Program
Chapter 18: Interdisciplinary and Interinstitutional Collaboration on Research Grants: Hard but Fun!
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