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2004-01-01

Haiying Feng (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Ling Shi (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Compared with other academic writing, the research grant proposal involves a high degree of marketisation with an attempt to sell the proposed research as well as the researcher. Instead of a general audience, it addresses two different groups of readers: peer reviewers who are highly informed...

2010-07-29

Goosney, Danika L. - Director, Program Planning and Process, CIHR

The PowerPoint PDF of the session may be downloaded. Dr. Danika Goosney (Director, Program Planning and Process, CIHR) identified important considerations when applying to CIHR compared to SSHRC.

2010-11-02

Campbell, Sandy - Public Services Librarian, Libraries, Walter C Mackenzie Health Sciences Center, Vanderjagt, Leah - Digital Repository Services Librarian, Libraries

The PowerPoint session \"Compliance with Funding Agency Mandates for Open Access to Research Data\" is available for download. This session reviewed options, opportunities, and challenges for researchers who are required by funding agencies, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to...

2010-10-22

Research Capacity Development Representatives from CIHR

This 45-minute PowerPoint presentation is ready for download and will provide contextual information about CIHR (mandate, strategic plan, priorities, organizational structure), as well as specific information about all student and trainee programs, including a general description of the program,...

2010-07-20

Rowe, Brian - Professor & Research Director, Emergency Medicine, Klarenbach, Scott - Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Michalak, Marek - Professor, Biochemistry; Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Rosychuk, Rhonda - Associate Professor & Director Biostatistics, Pediatrics

The PowerPoint PDF of this session is ready for download. The panelists discussed the importance and nuances of committee selection and key elements of funded CIHR OOGP applications. Key factors such as inclusion of statistics, data management, and health economics evaluations were addressed and...

2010-10-18

Desrosiers, Marilyn - Deputy Director, Targeted Initiatives Branch, CIHR

The PowerPoint presentation is available for download. Dr. Marilyn Desrosiers (CIHR Deputy Director, Targeted Initiatives Branch) described CIHR’s Catalyst Grant Program including how and when to find funding opportunities. A comparison between the differences in strategies and keys for success...

2011-10-21

McPhalen, Cathy - thINK editing

This downloadable resource, A Primer on Document Design, may be useful in presenting complex information in a clear, organized and understandable manner. Basic principles covered are applicable to grant applications and other text-heavy documents. By using a section of a sample document, this...

2011-09-09

Cave, Andrew - Professor of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

Dr. Andrew Cave (Professor, Department of Family Medicine) discusses the CIHR Knowledge Synthesis funding opportunity. This opportunity is designed to support teams of researchers and knowledge users to produce knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews that will contribute to the use of synthesized...

2011-11-08

Graves, Roger - Director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Professor, Department of English and Film Studies

This workshop was spent discussing the argumentative strategies of writing grants through the use of funded grant applications to the CIHR Open Operating Grant Program (OOGP) competition in Themes 1-4. Critical moves, argumentative structure, citation patterns etc specific to different sections...

2011-11-29

Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, CIHR Special Project, Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, CIHR Special Project

All funded applications from the March 2011 CIHR OOGP competition received a standard 19.5% budget reduction. However, approximately 72% of applications funded by the core budget at the University of Alberta received additional budget reductions. Consequently analysis of the peer review and...