Seeking External Grant Funds? Office of Research and CISS Offer Informational Sessions and Support

  • By: Deborah Carr

Faculty members and graduate students seeking external funding for their research will find a range of workshops, resources, and informational sessions offered by CISS and BU’s Office of Research. Whether your research focuses on youth or older adults, uses qualitative or quantitative methods, or is a small versus large multi-year project, these upcoming events can help launch your project.

CISS affiliates seeking feedback on their grant proposal aims may sign up for a mentor at the CISS Grant Feedback Network. (If you are not yet a faculty affiliate, apply here). If you are looking for a possible collaborator who brings distinctive methodological or substantive expertise to your project, please reach out to Center Director Deborah Carr (carrds@bu.edu) for possible connections and information on upcoming research group events.

Are you new to the research process and want to learn about how to launch and execute a project? This upcoming workshop is for you.

Thursday October 20 3:30-5 pm (register here)

“From Half-Baked Idea to Publication: Launching and Structuring New Research Projects.”

Benjamin Sovacool, Director, Institute Sustainable Energy

Every research publication started as a vague idea, which was refined and reformulated as the research evolved. How do scholars come up with innovative topics for their research? How do they navigate requirements for novelty in their idea, rigor in their techniques, and sound writing style?  And how do these ideas get translated into feasible studies that can be carried out within a reasonable time frame? How can emerging scholars gauge whether their paper is publishable? Prolific scholar Benjamin Sovacool, (CAS) Professor of Earth and Environment, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, will lead this presentation and discussion about ways to conceive, design, and execute research, move the project to publication, and even achieve impact after it is published.

Please check our website regularly for updates on research related events, opportunities and research interest groups.

The Office of Research has lined up a range of exciting and informative workshops for the Fall 2022 semester. Just a few of the upcoming sessions include:

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