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From: "Jacquie Fraser" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: Suggestions for successful qualitative research funding (fwd)]
> This may be helpful.
> Jacquie Fraser
>
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>
> The NIH Report on Qualitative Research distills the expert guidance of
> 12 researchers who either served on NIH review committees or
> successfully
> obtained funds from NIH. Culled from a workshop held in 1999, its 19
> pages of nuts-and-bolts guidance take you through PHS 398, the Public
> Health Service Grant Application form used to obtain NIH funding. At
> each
> step, the report provides tips aimed specifically at investigators whose
> proposed research takes a qualitative, or combined qualitative and
> quantitative, approach.
>
> Here's a sample tidbit from the "Budget" section: "Applicants frequently
> make the mistake of underestimating or trying to 'downplay' the cost of
> qualitative research methods. ... An unrealistically low budget or short
> timeline for a project may be seen by reviewers as reflecting a lack of
> experience or judgment on the part of the researcher. On the other hand,
> an inflated budget is not useful to the application."
>
> For the full document (NIH publication number 02-5046), go to
> http://obssr.od.nih.gov/publications/qualitative.pdf.
>
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