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Tips on How to Write A Winning Grant Proposal

A.P. Dr Mohd Shahir Shamsir Research Management Centre UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA [email protected]

15 Jan 2015


INTRODUCTION

CORRECTING THE RESEARCH PARADIGM


Current scenario?


Our scenario?


Future scenario?


Common research paradigm

Apply for research grant

Supervise students Publication H-Index Promotion Retire?





Research 1

Research 2

Research 3


Thematic research paradigm

Disease monitoring

using mobile devices

Income generation

Industry and Social perception

Adoption & traction

Framework and design

Device heteroneity

Software & hardware

• Longer life cycle; 5-10 years • Leverage different funds • Leverage different levels • Sufficient to

• graduating mass • build credibility • create cohort • publication traction


Asymmetric Research paradigm

Income generation

Social and Industry impact

RESEARCH UG supervision

Incoming Industrial placement

Branding of niche

specialty

Industry’s pain points


Multiplier effect in research Example of equipment purchase

Accredited research facilities Services Consultation Income

Equipment purchase Research Publication H-Index

Training Income Network Publication H-Index

Networking Publication Students

Services Income H-Index

De-facto


RESEARCH GRANTS

CORRECTING THE APPLICATION PARADIGM


Research Grants

• Determines the way we write their proposal • Research funding sources?

– Private (industry, NGO, associations) • TORAY, UNDP, JICA, World Bank, WHO, National Geographics

– Public (agencies, one-off, state, national, global) • KPM; FRGS, PRGS, LRGS, RACE, KTP • MOSTI; Technofund, eScience • MOA, NRE, KETTHA • AADK, MDEC, SSM, SKMM, FELDA • Academy Sciences,

– Alternative? Pro-bono work? CSR? Crowdsourcing? • On-demand research • PetriDish • Innocentive


Research Grants

• Determines the way we write their proposal • Research Level

– Fundamental vs applied – Science and technology/social sciences/hybrids

• Research focus – Academic research – Contract research – Industrial research – Consultancies


Crowdsourcing research funding


Bidding for research funding USD 5000- USD 1 mil Other examples • Quirky • Jovoto


UN Grants Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Labour Organization (ILO) Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Office of the Secretary General United Nations Human Settlements Programme (HABITAT) United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Affairs (UNDPKO) United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA) United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) United Nations Development Group (UNDG) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Educational-Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) United Nations Gender Task Force United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) United Nations Secretariat United Nations Staff College (UNSC) United Nations University For Peace World Bank World Health Organization (WHO)


Foundations


Thematic research paradigm

Disease monitoring using mobile devices

Income generation

Industry and Social

perception

Adoption & traction

Framework and design

Device heterogeneity

Software & hardware,

prototyping


RESEARCH GRANTS

CORRECTING THE WRITING PROCESS


Correcting the writing process

• Ongoing, scalable and multifaceted • Salient points

– Criteria of the funds – Background study – Limits or prohibitions – Spending credibility – Spending ability – Supporting document – Impact of research


Example: executive Summary The aggregation of the pathological prion protein (PrPSc) is the cause of prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and Gerstmann-SträusslerScheinker syndrome (GSS), whereby the familial/genetic CJD (gCJD), FFI and GSS are caused by an autosomal-dominant mutation in the prion protein gene (PRNP). The structure of PrPSc has the tendency to assemble into insoluble aggregates, hence NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography are not able to determine the structure of this disease protein, making molecular dynamic simulation a viable alternative to elucidate the aetiology of these mutations. The pathogenic mutations E196K, V203G, N173K and Q212H are especially rare in humans and their effects on the protein conformation has never been studied before. We propose to study the conformational effect of these four rare mutations using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and characterise the pathogenic conformational behavior. The MD simulations will utilise wildtype, variants of the prion protein and compare with various animal prions e.g. horse (Equus ferus caballus) and mouse (Mus musculus) as the E196K for example has been discovered in these species. The result of this study will elucidate why these mutations are very rare in human and is pathologically absent in animals. We hypothesize that the delayed disease onset is due to ineffectual conformational changes of the mutant structure and reduced oligomeric formation susceptibility. The new knowledge will provide fundamental understanding on the aetiology of rare prion diseases which may have prolonged latency and delayed onset, making its occurrence a rare event in a human lifespan.


Demo with Sample

*Participants would share their proposals to be edited live during the worshop


RESEARCH GRANTS

MANAGING THE APPLICATION PROCESS


Managing the application process

• Be aware of – the cyclical nature of grants; same time, same people, – The scalability of research grants – Hot themes, expired topics, recent focus of funders; climate

change; social media etc – Bajet tahunan, annual government allocation and focus

• Initiate a

– Research proposal bank; be prepared – A scalable research proposal – Discussion and invite evaluation panel members for training,

tips – Share rejection within research peers


THANK YOU

QUESTIONS?

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