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 教育顧問
Dr Trevor Lane是一名學術出版和教育顧問，同時他亦是出版倫理委員會當選理事之一。他有25年幫助作者在同行評審的學術期刊上發表研究成果的經驗。
他先前的職務包括在亞洲和美國的不同醫學和社會科學期刊中擔任高級編輯和出版職務，以及在香港大學教授研究交流和出版道德。他擁有牛津大學的生物化學碩士學位和癌症遺傳學博士學位。
香港灣仔軒尼斯道99號
彰顯大廈 2101室
上午 9:00 至下午 6:00
(+852) 2590 6588
