Funding Your Career in Science From Research Idea to Personal Grant

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1 Funding Your Career in Science From Research Idea to Personal Grant Dreaming of a successful future in science? This practical guide for students, postdocs, and professors offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you get the funding to start or to consolidate your own research career. From preparing and writing effective career grant applications, to understanding how funding agencies will evaluate them, it provides guidance to enhance your skills and combine them with those of others who can support you on the road to success. Learn how to generate great original ideas for your application, strategically prepare and optimize your plan and résumé, develop a convincing title and abstract, convert reviewers comments to your advantage, and succeed at a selection interview. With numerous valuable tips, real-life stories and novel practical exercises, this must-read guide provides everything you need to optimize your funding opportunities and take responsibility for your own career in science. is Dean of Talent Development and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Groningen. He has extensive experience as a trainer on career and personal development courses and is the author of Developing a Talent for Science (Cambridge, 2011).

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3 your Career in Science From Research Idea to Personal Grant University of Groningen

4 University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: / R. C. Jansen 2013 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2013 Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by the MPG Books Group A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Jansen, Ritsert C. Funding your career in science : from research idea to personal grant /. pages cm ISBN (Hardback) ISBN (Paperback) 1. Research Finance. 2. Proposal writing in research. 3. Science Vocational guidance. 4. Research grants. I. Title. Q F5J dc ISBN Hardback ISBN Paperback Additional resources for this publication at / Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

5 Contents Introduction 1 1 Applicant Introduction 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Idea 1.4 Strategy 2 Agency Introduction 2.2 Target 2.3 Brochure 2.4 Procedure 2.5 Rules 3 Proposal Introduction 3.2 Plan 3.3 Impact 3.4 Abstract 3.5 Title 3.6 Budget 3.7 Résumé

6 vi contents 4 Evaluation Introduction 4.2 Reviewers 4.3 Rebuttal 4.4 Panel 4.5 Interview 5 Support Introduction 5.2 Mentoring 5.3 Coaching 5.4 Training Epilogue 192 Further reading 195 Acknowledgments 202 Index 204 Chapter Opener Images Chapter 1 : original istockphoto.com/ugde. Chapter 2 : original istockphoto.com/yuxiz. Chapter 3 : original istockphoto.com/ohiromosov. Chapter 4 : original istockphoto.com/malerapaso. Chapter 5 : original istockphoto.com/fotostorm.