New Year, New Grants, New Service
Not all research funding comes from federal awards. There are other sources of funds out there if you know where to look. It’s far from comprehensive, but I’ve stumbled on some of the smaller and more obscure sources of funding through a couple of free subscription services. I’ve curated them for the benefit of the research community. Ideally, I plan to send this out monthly depending on the application submission dates, so investigators have time to apply. Nothing is worse than finding the perfect opportunity, but not enough lead-time to prepare a competitive application. Keep in mind this isn’t grants.gov, The Foundation Center, or the sponsored programs office, but check out the information below for some grants for environmental and conservation research.
If this isn’t your research area,don’t worry, I’ll be covering other topics include biomedical opportunities.
The Grant Science Journal subscribers will be the first to receive this information before it shows up here.
Best,
Deb Cook PhD
A Book on Viruses and Bacterial Hosts
Update: Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts won the award for best postgraduate textbook from the Royal Society of Biology.
Research grant consulting has great benefits. Reviewing and editing the proposals keeps me current in across the life sciences. In fields outside the life sciences, I serve as your colleague and novice or lay expert reviewer from another department. About two years ago, a book editing opportunity came my way through Twitter. In a Twitter conversation Jung Choi @jung_gt was following, someone complained about not getting research grants funded or leaving science and replied “or hire my wife” @grantsciencelab. In less than five minutes, his colleague Joshua Weitz, who was also following the conversation and said, “What’s this about hiring your wife?”
It’s July: NSF Career Proposals Due Soon
It’s that time of year again. How did July arrive so fast? Deferred home maintenance and the necessary home improvement kept my attention for most of the Spring and away from consulting. Career proposals are due between 7/20/2016 & 7/22/2016 depending on the directorate, but you knew that already. Last year, I summarized a dissertation on successful NSF Career Proposals into a free 10 page guide, Secrets of Successful NSF Career Proposals. Just click on the title to enter your information to receive the report. Use this handy guide to polish your proposal narrative for submission later this month.
Enjoy the summer. It’s time to get caught up on all that deferred research, renovation, and most importantly rest. Don’t forget to have some fun too. The academic grind will begin all too soon in August for many. It’s also not too late to lock in review plan pricing for the rest of the year. My flat fees will go up on or around August 1. You can get on the list here.
Deb Cook PhD
