Resources
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Professional development
Induction and staff development
Developing your research is a good introduction to research at UniSA for new staff. The Quick Guide to Starting Research @ UniSA (PDF file, 424kb) provides a range of useful information.
Professional development (Division of Business)
Professional development for researchers: Dean's area website - Division of Business (password protected, access to UniSA staff and students) features information in PDF file format on:
- Gaining ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants
- Gaining Industry Government research money
- Writing a small research grant application
- Writing papers and getting published
- Statistics for professionals
Note: this resource is intended for Business (BUE) staff, so not all of the information will be relevant to staff or candidates outside the division.
Marketing
Research Marketing Toolkit
The Research
Marketing Toolkit (staff access only) provides guidelines, tips and production
resources to assist research institutes, centres and groups to
produce high quality, relevant and engaging marketing
communications.
MDU Image Library
State of the art research images (staff access only)
UniSA Branding and Style Guide
UniSA logo,
Text Library, in-house styles and more
Grant writing tutorials
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) tutorial system (USA) provides strategies which are equally applicable to National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC) funded proposals, including 'How to plan a grant application' and 'How to write a grant application'.
- Resources for Behavioural Science Researchers provides an NIH-funded grant writing tutorial for behavioural science researchers with the sections: Formulating a question; Your proposal team; Writing the proposal; Fatal flaws and common pitfalls.
- The art of grantsmanship - Dr Jacob Kraicer, former Director of Research Grants at the Human Frontier Science Program
- The buck starts here - Karen M Markin, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Words worth their weight in cash - Karen M Markin, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The art of writing proposals: some candid suggestions for applicants to Social Science Research Council competitions - Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon, Social Science Research Council
- Grant proposal writing tips - US Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Five things to know about writing better grant proposals - QED Education Network
- Proposal writing guides - FindHow, the How-To Search Engine
- Hints for grant writing - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Proposal preparation resources - US National Council of University Administrators
- Grant writing tips - Center for Social Work Research, The University of Texas at Austin
- Winning, managing, and renewing grants (PDF file) - The Scientist 2000, 14, 21: 31