Views on proposal writing
I’ve found a few academic researchers who have posted their thoughts about proposal writing on their blogs and talk about the experience from their perspective. When I first started writing grants I remember the feelings of being overwhelmed and rushed through the process. (I’m not even going to explore the feelings of waiting to find out/being funded/not being funded, but I’ve had those too. FYI, in my experience the first is stressful, the second is awesome and the third is just plain awful.)
In any event, enjoy:
Female Science Professor on The Five Stages of Proposal Writing
Blue Lab Coats on The ‘Dark Art’ of Grant Writing and Grant-writing mania and Go bold or go boring?
Survival Blog for Scientists on Will the reviewer of my grant proposal steal my ideas?
The titles themselves are interesting. I have had folks worried a bout the stealing of ideas but it seems to be limited to specific disciplines. How have we come to a place where creating knowledge is so competitive that this is a concern? It saddens me.
I completely agree. It is very sad. There seems to be a lot of scary/sad things happening at the moment:
An Iranian researcher who republished complete articles as his own work. http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/fourth_paper_retracted_in_iran.html
Professor Laura Bierut’s data being used ahead of embargo from a shared database
http://network.nature.com/people/ennis/blog/2009/09/17/scooped
I could list more, but these two really upset me so I thought I’d share. I really have to get back to my stack o’ grants.
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