Book
Successful grant writing: strategies for health and human service professionals
Oct 2013
Abstract
This book provides grant-writing information that encompasses many disciplines and focuses on building a research career with grant writing as a step-wise process. For a research grant, federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provide a certain amount of money to the applicant’s university over and above the requested budget for direct costs associated with implementing the project in order to help defray basic operational expenses. Agencies are primarily interested in funding the best ideas from among those that are submitted and the applicants most capable of being successful in carrying out their proposed project. Well-written proposals are those in which ideas are presented clearly, concisely, and logically. Such proposals have a greater chance of receiving a favorable review than those that are disorganized, unclear, and filled with typographical errors. A grant-writing team enables individuals to share the joy and pains of writing and developing the proposal. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an important approach to bridging research-practice gaps, particularly in addressing health disparities. The basic assumption of a CBPR approach is that by involving key stakeholders and end users, research questions, methodologies, and outcomes will have greater relevance and be more swiftly integrated into health care practices. Proposing randomized clinical trials (RCT) can be challenging given the page limitations for an application imposed by the NIH and other funders. The book also offers case examples relevant to social work, nursing, psychology, rehabilitation, and occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
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Details
- Title
- Successful grant writing
- Creators
- Laura N. Gitlin - Johns Hopkins UniversityKevin J. Lyons
- Publisher
- Springer Publishing Company; New York
- Edition
- 4th
- Number of pages
- 369
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Nursing and Health Professions
- Other Identifier
- 0826101038; 9780826101037; 991020112048904721