Resource Spotlight: The Research Development and Grantwriting Newsletter
BY: Carolyn Bradley| PUBLISHED: November 15
FSU’s Office of Research Development (ORD) enthusiastically provides high-quality consulting to researchers. At the same time, we believe that faculty members can achieve greatest success by continually growing their personal knowledge of the research grant environment. To this end, we distribute amongst FSU faculty a monthly electronic newsletter, Research Development and Grantwriting News, produced by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC.
We regard this newsletter as an optimal resource for helping faculty keep abreast of developments in issues pertaining to research grants. Shining a light on the goals and expectations of diverse grant agencies, calling attention to promising funding opportunities, and unveiling strategies for composing effective proposals, the newsletter offers a great resource for the many faculty members who possess a seemingly boundless understanding of their personal fields of research but perceive the grant funding world itself as intimidating and obtuse.
Designed to be enlightening and reader-friendly, Research Development and Grantwriting News features short and long articles as well as hot links to web resources. A typical issue includes:
- Notifications of funding opportunities from public and private agencies
- Articles on grant agencies’ activities and internal operations
- Strategies for grant writing and other forms of proposal development
- Tips for nurturing collaborative research teams
We have secured an institutional license to the newsletter, and we house former issues on our website: https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/ord/proposal-resources/learn-how-to-write-grants/. The newsletter is released on roughly the 15th of each month.
ORD encourages research faculty to review the Research Development and Grantwriting News to broaden their understanding of funding agencies and sharpen their grantsmanship skills. In this way, faculty members can improve the likelihood of winning grants and, by extension, using their vast expertise to make a difference in their disciplines through research.
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Contact: Carolyn Bradley | Proposal Development & Funding Specialist
Carolyn Bradley serves as the Proposal Development and Funding Specialist at Florida State University’s Office of Research Development. Her responsibilities include helping FSU researchers in the Arts and Humanities to identify promising funding opportunities and prepare competitive proposals. She also facilitates limited submissions, coordinates mock review panels, and develops proposal budgets. She is passionate about research, and is driven to help FSU faculty members make their research dreams a reality.
Prior to coming to FSU, Carolyn worked as a staff member for the University of Florida’s Southern HIV and Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC) Center. She earned a PhD and Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Florida, and a BA in English from Vassar College. She loves to travel, and spent two years teaching English in southern Spain after college, and also studied abroad in Florence, Italy as an undergraduate.
