Workshops

2013 Faculty Grant and Fellowship Writing Seminar
Thursday, April 25th 2013 / May 9th 2013 / May 23rd 2013
12:00pm-2:00pm

Faculty Club

This 3-day seminar series is for faculty members who are ready to prepare an extramural proposal (or who have a draft proposal) that they plan to submit to a funding agency in 2013-2014. The seminar will provide a systematic and detailed explanation of the proposal writing process, including best practices for generating research proposal ideas, and writing the specific key sections of a proposal.
See the full RFP here
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PIVOT Search Engine Training
Thursday, December 13th 2012
2:00pm-3:00pm

1529 Phelps Hall

Join us to learn about our campus PIVOT funding opportunity database. PIVOT consists of 25,000 records representing over 400,000 individual funding opportunities from sponsors across all disciplines. Users can search by keyword, residency requirements, activity location, deadline and more. All data is verified with the sponsor and updated daily. Subscribers can also elect to receive a weekly e-mail with a customized list of funding opportunities based on your saved search criteria.

Pac Rim Research Program Information Meeting
Wednesday, October 31st 2012
10:00am-11:00pm

North Hall 2208

Professor Sabine Fruhstuck, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Rim Research Program, and Professor Yunte Huang, UCSB representative on the Executive Committee of the Pacific Rim Research Program will present information and answer questions about the 2013-14 call for proposals. Click here for a recording of the workshop.

Crowd Funding: A New Source of Funding for Academic Research
Monday, May 7th 2012
12:00pm-1:00pm

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Dr. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Professor of Sociology at UCSB, discusses how she raised over $16,000 for a social science documentary research project with Kickstarter. Dr. Holly Unruh, Associate Director of the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, presents her research on crowd funding in the academic arts community. Dr. Jai Ranganathan, Post-Doctoral Scholar at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), and Dr. Jarrett Byrnes, Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Massachusetts Boston, talk about the #SciFund Challenge, an effort they are leading that trains scientists on how to raise research funds via crowd funding.

A recording of the event can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnT7QuJJ5Ps

Diversity Research Funding
Wednesday, January 25th 2012
3:00pm-4:00pm

2206 North Hall, the Pellish Room

Dr. Barbara L.E. Walker, Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts will present information about current funding sources for diversity research (research on diversity, multiculturalism, gender, race, LGBT topics, etc.) and diverse researchers (including women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups).

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