Faculty Summer Immersion - Research
Faculty Summer Immersion: Research
Program Dates: July 22 – August 2, 2019
Location: 1919 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20006
Program Leader: Jeanne Geiger-Brown
Overview
The two-week immersion in research proposal writing will provide nursing faculty, clinicians, and doctoral dissertation-phase students with didactic education and personal mentoring to increase their research productivity.
Participants will arrive on campus with a research idea and leave with a near-to-completed written research proposal and clearly outlined ‘next steps’. Didactic presentations will be supplemented with individual mentoring and supportive small group work. Protected time to write is built into the schedule. Writing coaches will assist participants to refine their drafts. The research summer enrichment program is an opportunity to focus deeply to produce a research proposal that well organized, well written, and impactful.
Audience
New faculty members, faculty with lapsed research careers that want to retool, postdocs that want an intensive time to work on a research proposal, doctoral students after comps who want to work on their proposals. Researchers who want protected time to focus on preparing a grant proposal. Nursing faculty members, clinicians who are interested in a researchable idea, and PhD students in nursing who are in the dissertation phase. It is essential that each participant come with a research idea, as well as an idea for a potential type of funding.
Objectives
- Situate a research idea within the context of a program of research
- Develop a proposal that is both significant and impactful
- Overcome writing blocks and learn strategies for maintaining research productivity
- Refine proposal development skills including:
- Writing a compelling aims page and narrative to sell the idea
- Fitting the scope of the study to the budget at hand
- Organizing and synthesizing existing literature, and keeping up with the science
- Choosing the strongest study design possible to answer the research question
- Working effectively with a statistician
- Choosing study team members, who to pick and who to avoid
- Justifying the budgeted costs
- Engendering confidence in your ability to complete the work of the proposal with an effective bio-sketch
- Writing a human subjects section that covers all the ethical concerns