ASHA’s Science and Research Programs include several opportunities for students and emerging-to-mid-career scientists to enhance grantmanship: Lessons for Success, Clinical Practice Research Institute, Grant Reviewer Training, and special sessions at the annual Convention focused on funding mechanisms and grantsmanship. One message that resonates throughout these varied programs is that successful applications have several characteristics in...
In the discipline of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), intervention research aimed at informing clinical practice has proceeded for nearly a century now without a clear set of expectations about what the necessary, or at least desirable, steps ought to be to develop foundational knowledge that can later support inferences...
Many of us audiology types are curious people. We got into the field because we care about people, about good communication, and about both the science and the humanity of how hearing loss affects lives. We’re curious about what works and what doesn’t, and most of all we wonder “why?”...
The NIH does provide grant money for international research projects, international research collaborations, and international research training via the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in Health Sciences. The Fogarty Center has many international research and international training grants available. For example, the Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award,...
Many researchers engaged in collaborative research often just fall into their collaborations as a natural outgrowth of their work and their professional interactions. And the collaboration may work well. However, there are many situations when researchers should explicitly consider the nature, benefits, and pitfalls of collaborative research. The first is...