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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