Developing Research Proposals

Writing Research Proposals: Developing Your Rationale

This video covers how to develop and explain your project story.

How to Develop hypotheses and research questions

For many fundamental research projects, strong hypotheses or research questions are key to success. We discuss how to formulate them.

 

providing background and describing the state of the art

Here, we discuss how to provide needed background and explain how your research fits into the state of the art without overwhelming the reviewer.

describing your Methodology and work plan

Many PIs do a great job describing their goals, innovation, background and preliminary results, then they drop the ball when it comes to how they will actually achieve their goals. We’ll discuss what reviewers are looking for in this section.