It is not enough to have a good idea. Your good idea must also be well positioned, or review panels for grant agencies are unlikely to approve it. A year ago, I wrote a column about how to best position your research idea to attract a grant. Now I'd like to turn the focus on you, the investigator.
Grant writing is the end of a process, not the beginning. Long before you make the decision to write a grant proposal for your research, you should be taking concrete steps to raise your profile in the eyes of reviewers.
What does that mean? Most basically, it means preparing yourself as a scholar, a researcher, and a grant writer in ways that will strengthen the ideas behind your proposal, demonstrate that you have the wherewithal to carry out your project, and enhance your ability to communicate what reviewers are looking for.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Becoming a Successful Principal Investigator - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Author: David A. Stone
