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Preface

Table of Contents

	Introduction
1	Why this Book? Science in the Post Academic Era
2	Grants in Science How Public Money Helps You Do Your Research
3	Defining your Own Quality And Making Sure Assessors Recognize It
4	The Search for Originality And How to Show It
5	Bending Your Thoughts to Match Criteria What Panels Want to Read
6	Writing Your Proposal from Beginning to End A Concise Guide for Applicants
7	Nine Months Later The Long Road to the End
8	Physics, Life Sciences and Humanities: A World of Differences And How to Cope with Them
9	The End of Science (As We Know it)
	Useful Documents and Websites
	About the authors
Literature
Figures

Description

‘Excellence’ is said to be the sole criterion in grant decision-making. How excellence is judged by funding organizations is difficult to grasp. This book helps scientists to acquire a grant for basic research from national and international funding organizations. It describes the processes involved and explains the way in which decisions on the giving of grants are made by peer reviewers and field panels or juries. It focuses on the best strategy for applying, supplies information on how to cope with the application form and the way it is handled by the different people involved in the assessment of scientific excellence as well as by the funding organization. The book is based on hundreds of cases in which the authors have been involved over the last ten years.

Target group

This publication is aimed at academics researchers and academics in the field of scientific research funding.

Author's information

Frans van den Beemt worked as a program officer within the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW, now part of NWO), after finishing his study in the physics of nuclear particles. In line with this work, he became interested in the fundamentals of the assessment of scientific quality of proposals and its principal investigators. As an experiment, he made small changes to the proposals and resubmitted them, in consultation with the board of NWO. He discovered that these small changes were all that was needed for a proposal to be judged excellent instead of poor. At present, he applies his expertise at the company HandsonGrants by helping researchers to apply for national or international grants more successfully.

Peter de Zoete studied philosophy and psychology. For ten years he worked in the field of applied psychology and cofounded a consultancy firm using concepts from the psychology of persuasion to raise public awareness on societal issues. From here on, he became interested in the psychology of group decision making. Combining this interest with his ability in writing, he joined Frans van den Beemt at HandsonGrants.

 

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