Questions tagged [funding]
This tag refers to questions related to source and utilization of academic funding from government or non-governmental sources.
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Declining an MSCA fellowship a few months into the program for a complicated personal situation: could it impact my career
My current situation is the following:
On the positive aspects:
I am currently working in a lab "X". There, my boss is a really great person. She gives me a lot of freedom in my research ...
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Elsevier: Funding information when grant receipt is not a coauthor
A manuscript I have been working on side for a year is ready to be submitted for an Elsevier journal. I have worked independently on this from experiments to drafting. However, I have received support ...
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Funding opportunities for small project collaboration between EU and US?
I'm a early career researcher in Italy (University of Bolzano) and I have a colleague who is Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute for Aerospace (private contractor of NASA at the ...
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I inadvertently conveyed acceptance of an admission offer when inquiring about funding
I was accepted to a fantastic [U.S.] program last year I was surprised to get an offer from but because they didn't offer me any funding and my life was still in a whirlwind due to the pandemic, I ...
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Research Funding conditionned to the signing of a debt acknowledgment with amount and debt in blank
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Are there other countries than Chile where the government requires researchers to sign a debt acknowledgement with date and amount in blank, validated at the notary, to be filled some time ...
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If the government pays universities for graduating students, how does that not lead to "predatory universities"?
From an answer to another question:
Unsurprisingly, both of these "jobs" cost money. Education needs teachers, research needs researchers, and both need administrative support staff. ...
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Grant number and acknowledgment
I submitted a paper to a journal a few months ago and applied for a research grant one year ago. Currently, my grant application has not yet been awarded, but I anticipate that it will be granted in ...
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What can I do if a grant proposal was rejected by a reviewer making false claims and using straw men?
Being an experienced reviewer, I know that rejection can be frustrating, but also fruitful and a good learning experience. There are many kinds of reviews (good, bad, constructive, opinionated, short, ...
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How to get funded to attend an international conference?
I am from a developing country and I can not afford plane tickets or hotel accommodation fees all by myself, I am not funded by any organization and I am a fresh grad so not even my university can ...
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Travel reimbursement for grant: The lab doesn't want to provide bank account details
I am a PhD student, who has been awarded a young researcher grant, which I intend to use to work at another (host) institute which my home institute is collaborating with. In order to accept the grant ...
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Do you know any system in which a PhD Student can apply for their own reserch grant? [closed]
I would like to ask about any funding for PhD Students to buy lab equipments, reagents etc. Because I know a lot of scholarships and travel grants for PhD students, but no research grants.
I know PIs ...
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How to deal with Pension as a postdoc regularly moving country? [closed]
I am a postdoc from the UK that currently lives in France paid by a Canadian institution as a contractor (not employee). I move country roughly every 1-2 years. How do I get a pension for old age? UK ...
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How to proceed with a postdoc research idea (in the UK)?
I am a UK-based PhD candidate with viva scheduled in a few weeks' time. I have a research idea that I would like to work on post-graduation, and I have also identified an organisation (in the UK) and ...
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My co authors backed out after paper acceptance, how to proceed
My paper was accepted in an open access journal, I am the corresponding author, but soon after acceptance my co-authors refused to pay their part of the article processing charges (APC) and sent me ...
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Asking Advisor to Augment Stipend to a Livable Wage
The company I work for is funding a project led by a professor at an engineering department in a US university. I was recently accepted by the university and they offered me a departmental fellowship ...
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Who decides on grant spending rules?
I am a university faculty supported by this Simons Foundation research grant. Who decides on the spending rules for this grant? Can my universty impose any rules, for example acomodation cost limits ...
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Pure mathematics PhD fellowships for international students in the US [closed]
I am an Indian student that completed both undergraduate and masters degrees outside India. I am currently looking for PhD fellowships that might fund my pure mathematics degree at US/Canadian ...
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How much emphasis is given on past research publications while evaluating postdoctoral grant proposals?
I am writing a project proposal for the JSPS postdoctoral fellowship in Japan. In my PhD I had 3 first author research papers with average impact factors (betwen 2.5 and 5.5) in my field (...
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Multiple proposals assigned to the same study section in NIH
I would like to know everybody's ideas about having multiple NIH proposals being reviewed in one study section/scientific review group (group of peer reviewers that evaluate proposals on a particular ...
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Funding on research collaborations
I am currently a graduate student, and I have an idea for research that connects to something I worked on during my undergraduate studies. Given that my supervisor agrees, I want to know how funding ...
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Asking host to select a project topic for JSPS fellowship
I am going to apply for JSPS postdoctoral fellowship in Japan. I need to fill up the application form which also requires a research proposal.
As I have very less knowledge over the matter, I don't ...
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Research at Public University vs Private University: A perspective for a data science enthusiast!
I'm wondering about the difference between public and private universities in terms of creating research directions for its students, specifically related to machine learning and neural networks. I ...
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Post-docs cannot be PIs: should a place-holder PI be included?
I have a situation similar to the question asked
here,
with some differences.
I am getting ready to submit an NSF grant proposal
(as a PI).
On this project,
I'd like to work closely with a post-doc ...
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How should I write a proposal in which one of the PI does nothing?
An NSF research proposal was prepared last year.
Even though all scientific work planned at the university will be done by two postdocs and 2 - 3 graduate students, the university requires a tenured/...
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Is my timeline for starting a PHD in Fall 2023 in Europe a complete 'Pipe Dream'?
I am an EU citizen currently working in a field completely unrelated to academia. I have been interesting in returning to academia for a number of years now, and finally plan on applying for a PHD. My ...
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which one is better to use for scholarship application: personal or institutional email?
should I use my university domain email to show the admission committee that I am an academic staff, or my personal email for scholarship application?
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Should I mention my PhD in a PhD scholarship application?
I did not like my Msc. specialization (one of Chemistry streams). I won a PhD scholarship overseas. Though the area (protein engineering) was my favorite area, I graduated without having enough ...
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Why doesn't your stipend increase after your courses are complete?
A big argument I hear for why stipends are actually a great deal is because tuition is covered(often).
This makes sense for the first year or two but once courses are complete it's no longer a valid ...
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My PhD fellowship for spring semester has already been paid to me. If I drop out mid-semester, what is the likelihood that I'll have to pay it back? [closed]
I understand this question has been asked before, but my question is unique in that I am paid a lump sum stipend at the beginning of each semester for that semester. In other words, my tuition is ...
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Can we consider the Stack Exchange Q & A process to be research? And can we refer to it on our cv/resume, etc. especially for admission & funding?
I have seen a definition of research in the Cambridge Dictionary. It says:
a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding:
Here we see ...
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Is "academic incest" a concern with research grant applications?
A colleague and I, early-career researchers, are planning to submit a research funding proposal. The research program we are envisioning would need a third PI with complementary expertise and ...
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Unhappy with PhD - Can I use my research assistantship to switch field? Or do something else drastic?
I've just started a 2nd year of a PhD student at a UK 'Russel Group' uni - something I had dreamt about for ~decade. Half of my funding comes from a lab, half is from UKRI. Really naive, I know, but I ...
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Publishing a paper as an independent researcher, without funds
I have written a small paper that I have written in the field of computer science. I've had several people read it, and one recommended that it's of enough quality they think I should be able to ...
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What happens to project money?(USA, federal)
I was involved in several projects which got considerable funding from the US federal government.
In retrospect I feel there was a substantial amount of equipment that should have been purchased/built ...
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Will PI salary provided by a research grant be deducted from their university salary?
(Considering the fact that this question is specifically about the UK academic system,) this webpage says
Applicants are expected to spend an average of at least 50% of full
time working on the ...
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Does year gap create any problem before Computer science(nlp) PhD
I completed masters in 2017. After then I did internship as a software engineer in one company X for 6 month in 2018. And then did another company Y job in 2019 as a full stack developer. But during ...
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Can you get promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Sydney if you have good research outputs but not ARC grant? [closed]
Currently considering resigning from an associate prof position in the US to take up a lecturer one at Sydney Uni but am worried that promotion might be very hard to get without ARC funding. No one in ...
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How do TA-ships / RA-ships / Fellowships work when you are doing a PhD and have a full-time job?
I was reading through the post Is it possible to work full time and complete a PhD and had a few follow up questions:
(1) I read somewhere that one can complete a PhD without funding from a TAship or ...
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Grants accessible to Italian mathematicians? [closed]
What kind of grants can mathematicians working in Italy apply to?
In addition to the various ERC grants are there any other specific funding programmes that mathematicians working in Italy may apply ...
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Are there changes in the process and culture around grants, funding and publishing with changes in countries or institutions?
Currently, as a graduate student in the social sciences, my supervisor has given me a short list of federal institutions that give out the majority of grants to all levels of academia, they share ...
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How should a renewal NSF proposal be prepared differently?
What NSF's guideline (PAPPG) says about (traditional) renewal proposals is that they...
...must be developed as fully as though the proposer is applying for the first time.
Should there some special ...
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Failed to submit the final grant report on time
I am working on my PhD thesis. This study was funded the Foundation for Joint Russian-Finnish Scientific Innovation Projects (TEKES - Funding Agency, Finland). The grant consists of two intermediate ...
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Can my past supervisor use our unpublished data for grants without my permission?
Say I work on a project as a Postdoc/PhD student and conduct an experiment or study, and this results in data that leads to another interesting follow-up question, or possibly even indicates a major ...
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10 minute presentation for a scholarship PhD interview
I was selected for an interview for a PhD scholarship and asked to give a 10-minute presentation consisting of 10 slides including "summarising both your research experience and your research ...
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Are there grants that work at any accredited university?
There are scholarships for PhD students that work at any accredited university, sometimes in a particular zone. Example.
Applications may be submitted by full-time students who desire to study ...
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How to force a German university to take action against possible fraud?
This case concerns a university in south part of Germany. There is a lady who has a full-time job in this university (she is PI of a group not a professor) and has brought several millions Euro to the ...
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Are academic groups allowed to use grant funds to hedge against exchange rate changes?
If an academic group receives a multi-year grant denominated in a currency different from that that they pay salaries, can they use some of the grant to hedge against changes in the relative value of ...
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Can professors arrange for an MSc scholarship if you contact them by e-mail and they are interested in working with you?
I wanted to know if one can get MSc scholarships just by emailing professors from different universities, by showing them that we have some interest and some experience in fields that they have ...
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Any successful examples of funding research through crowd funding?
Has there been any successful examples of crowd funded academic research projects? (i.e., instead of grants from funding agencies)
I would restrict the scope of this question to only within academia.
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What does NSF do with Project Reports?
I am working on an NSF (in the USA) project report now and wondering what users end up using this information.
Do program officers use it when considering me in my next grant application?
Does NSF ...
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