The 2012 ASHS Annual Conference

Objective(s):
Grant writing is becoming an increasingly important part of life in academia and industry, but how should you write a grant? What happens after you submit it? And how do you deal with the money and reports once you get it? This workshop has been designed to help teach graduate students the following: 1) How to write a grant, including how to create a budget and timeline. 2) What happens to the grant after it’s been submitted to the grant’s budgeting committee. 3) How to administer the grant once you receive it.

Grant writing is an important skill that is in demand in today’s job market, but how should you go about writing a grant and what do you do once you receive it? More goes into writing a grant than one might think. Besides having a great idea, you must also have a justification, a budget, and a timeline just to name a few things. After the grant has been written, it goes to a committee which will then determine if the grant is worthy of funding. If you’re one of the lucky ones whose grant gets funded, then you have to figure out how to budget the money and write the reports. The goal of this workshop is to show graduate students how to write a grant, what to expect when it goes to committee, and how to administer it once you have been funded. There will also be extra time for discussions about each part of grant writing.