1. What can Research Development do for you?
Dr Meredith Downes
Research Development Manager (Child Health Research Centre)

2. You are going to succeed (if you want it)
Health/biomedical research
Early Career Researcher
Go8 UQ
UQ Faculty of Medicine

3. Show me the money! Beat the competition Take advantage Build Momentum
Cross the “funded” line

4. Who can help?
Research Development Officers (RDOs) and Research Development Managers (RDMs)
Who are they? – Medicine Research Strategy and Support Office ( office)
Different approaches in different organisational units

5. What can we do for you? Coversheets and approvals
Eligibility and compliance
Peer Review
Grant review
Grant writing
Budget assistance and drafting
Finding funding
Activities to support applying for funding
Engagement with partners and collaborators
First point of contact for when you are funded

6. Be strategic in your approach
Think before you write
Seek advice
Plan long-term
Feedback is your friend
“Recipe for Success”
Training

7. Get your message across
First impressions count
Clear communication of your ideas
Active language
Detail
Depth of planning

8. Find the right opportunities
Talk to us
Find your own funding
Engage

9. Pave the way for your research
Why you need “annoying bureaucracy”
Funding coversheets - application-coversheet_2017.doc
Cerifications, Approvals and Letters of Support
Overheads - research-funding-and-consultancy-contracts
When you get funded – the “post-award” checklist

10. Happy grant writing!