Next Up in Funding Fridays: September 30 Workshop | Finding Funding, with Marco Cocito-Monoc (Executive Director of Foundation Relations) and Loren Walker (Director, Office of Research Development)
Are you a faculty member looking for funding to support your research? Without proper strategies, searching for funding can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. In this workshop, your guides are Marco Monoc, Executive Director of Foundation Relations and Loren Walker, Director of the Office of Research Development at UMass. They will provide an overview of systems that help you find federal or foundation funding, as well as suggestions for how to write competitive proposals aimed at different types of funders.
About the Funding Fridays Series
Register once, for as many sessions as you need!
Grants funding can be critical to faculty careers, but difficult to pull off on your own given limited time. ISSR invites you to take part in a flexible, 8-session workshop series aimed at motivating, informing, and supporting faculty writing grants for submission.
Stop by each week for remote workshops, writing sprints, and research design office hours that will help you stay on track for your goals, or hop on and off for only the sessions you need. Our registration form offers you a one-stop chance to sign up for the Funding Fridays sessions that interest you most, all semester long (*Note: a separate registration is required for the September 19 session on the ABCs of the IRB).
- Missed the start but want to join in? No worries, you can sign up at any time.
- Already registered but want to add sessions? Send us an email, and we'll add your selections.
All registered participants will be joined to the Funding Fridays Moodle course, where you will find a full library of helpful resources for all stages of the grant writing process. New registrants can review past materials, and seek support for early stages of grant development in our bi-weekly Research Design Office Hours.
Sessions meet most Fridays from 11 am - 12 pm on Zoom. Put these dates into your calendar now to assure that you have a completed proposal draft by December!
FALL 2022
September 30 Workshop | Finding Funding, with Marco Cocito-Monoc (Executive Director of Foundation Relations) and Loren Walker (Director, Office of Research Development)
October 7 Workshop | A Timeline to Success: Planning Your Proposal-Writing Process, with Katie Smith (ISSR Associate Director for Research Administration and Operations) and Sofiya Alhassan (ISSR Director of Faculty Research and Professor of Kinesiology)
October 14 Workshop | Framing is Everything: Making Your Research Questions Fundable, with Mary Fechner (Proposal Development Specialist, Office of Research Development)
October 28 Workshop | Budgeting 101: Creating a Realistic Budget, with Carrie Morrison Penland (Grants and Contracts Coordinator, ISSR) and Katie Smith
November 4 Workshop | Research Design: Matching Methods to Research Questions, with Jessica Pearlman (Director of Research Methods Programs, ISSR) and Laurel Smith-Doerr (Director of ADVANCE Program)
November 18 Workshop | So What? Significance and Broader Impacts, with Mary K. Green (Research Development Specialist, Office of Research Development)
ALSO | with separate registration
September 19 Workshop | The ABCs of the IRB, with Iris Jenkins (Associate Director of the Human Research Protection Office) and Lynnette Sievert, Chair of the Institutional Review Board at UMass Amherst
December TBA Infosession | The ISSR/CRF Scholars Programs, a chance to learn about these competitve yearlong opportunities to take your research funding to the next level, supported by ISSR and the Center for Research on Families
