ECR Personalised Grant Writing Workshop

Concept

A hands-on grant writing workshop for ECRs. with advice from former ARC College of Experts members.

Where – UoW Main Campus, Room 101 of McKinnon Building (B67)

When – Wednesday 3rd December

Key contacts – Alexander Hamilton Alex.Hamilton@unsw.edu.au

Timetable

14:00-14:30	Introduction – Alexander Hamilton
14:30-15:30	Reading other people’s project proposal
15:30-16:10	Coffee
16:10-16:30	Panel discussion: Advice from current & former ARC panel members
16:30-17:00	Improving your own project proposal and re-reading each others’

Pre-Work

Participants must complete and submit this google form before the 24th November, 5 pm AEST.

Before the workshop you will prepare a one-page pitch for a grant/fellowship application, in the format below.

During the workshop you will review the project pitches of 3-5 of your peers, analysing the weaknesses and giving constructive suggestions of how the pitch could be improved.

The project pitch must be submitted one week before the workshop (24th November, 5pm AEST), and should consist of short (typically 3-7 sentence) paragraphs explaining:

Project Title
Your name
Background – What the field is and why it matters (e.g. what is electron hydrodynamics, and why is it important scientifically)
What are the major research questions? – a challenge / obstacle / deficiency / aspect of the field that you will be addressing (e.g. how challenging it is to detect hydrodynamic flow in electronic devices)
How you will address it?how is your approach novel and innovative, and what specific things will you do?
Research Impact– What are the potential economic, commercial, environmental, social and or/cultural benefits for Australia and/or international communities of the research? If you are successful, in 5-10 years time how will other scientists (or the public) be affected by / use the outcomes of your work? Will the research create/enhance collaborations?
Figure with brief caption can be used if it helps illustrate the project, but is not critical.

This project pitch must be emailed as a PDF to ECRworkshop2025@qed.physics.unsw.edu.au one week before the workshop. No submissions after 5pm AEST Monday 24 November will be accepted.

You must also bring 5 hard copies of the one page proposal with you.