About the webinar
This webinar highlights key organisational and English language features of successful applications for competitive research grants. Focusing on applying for a grant from the annual Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund (GRF), we discuss how to write a logical and engaging narrative to confidently promote your ideas and increase your application’s quality and chance of success.
The webinar is about 60 minutes long. The final 15 minutes will be set aside for live Q & A.
This webinar covers:
1. Language for research proposals
– Develop a clear research “storyline”, with relevant signal phrases
– Explain your approach to answering the research question
2. Language for grant applications
– Write a persuasive research plan
– Use logical argumentation in each paragraph
– Signal phrases in key sections of the Hong Kong UGC/RGC General Research Fund (GRF) grant application (https://www.ugc.edu.hk/doc/eng/rgc/form/GRF2.pdf)
– Convince the reviewers
– Promote your personal brand
– Promote your value
3. Tips for writing your application
– Convince and convert the reviewers
– Communicate effectively
– Sound professional
– Edit your proposal
– Use short, simple, focused titles
– Don’ts
– Dos
AsiaEdit 教育顾问
Dr Trevor Lane是一名学术出版和教育顾问，同时他亦是出版伦理委员会当选理事之一。他有25年帮助作者在同行评审的学术期刊上发表研究成果的经验。
他先前的职务包括在亚洲和美国的不同医学和社会科学期刊中担任高级编辑和出版职务，以及在香港大学教授研究交流和出版道德。他拥有牛津大学的生物化学硕士学位和癌症遗传学博士学位。
香港湾仔
轩尼诗道99号2101室
9:00am – 6:00pm
(+852) 2590 6588
