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leave list -----Original Message----- From: Jacquie Fraser <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 29 November 2001 19:29 Subject: Suggestions for successful qualitative research funding (fwd)] >This may be helpful. >Jacquie Fraser > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >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. >