School of Arts and Humanities – Research Administration Grants Info Sessions – Grant Writing Tips and Tricks

Research Services are delighted to offer the following panel sessions in a bid to assist EMCRs to better understand navigating grant application and ECU’s processes.  This session will be offered in hybrid mode, but we would encourage you to attend in person as a networking and collaborative opportunity. 

Panel Discussion/Q&A:  Grant writing – what works?  How to plan a project before writing the application.  How to establish collaborations and what are the benefits?

Come and learn from experienced SAH researchers about their grant writing tips and tricks and what have been hard learnt grant writing and collaboration lessons. This will be an interactive Q&A session where our panel will discuss broad grant writing lessons including picking the right grant scheme, knowing if you are ready for the scheme especially fellowships, how to create collaborations and manage them, when and how to get started, what are assessors looking for, and many other valuable insights.

Professor Loretta Baldassar
Loretta is a professor in Anthropology and Sociology with a research focus in migration, diversity, and care research.  Loretta is currently leading an MRFF funded randomised control trial (Befriending with GENIE: A social, technology intervention to reduce loneliness and increase social support and services access for people living with dementia and their care givers from CALD backgrounds) and co-leading an ARC Discovery Project Youth Futures after Mobility (YFAM) which extends earlier research project Youth Mobilities, Aspirations and Pathways Project.  Loretta has also received grant funding from federal and state government and philanthropic funding. 

Professor Lelia Green
Lelia’s research focuses on children’s digital lives, particularly marginalised and disadvantaged children and teens.  Lelia is currently leading an ARC Linkage Project (Working with teenagers to co-design a porn literacy program that mitigates potential harm) and is a Chief Investigator working with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.  Lelia has been a CI on 15 national competitive grants including numerous ARC grants.

Professor Verena Thomas
Verena’s research focus is on communication and social change, communication for development, arts-based research approaches, visual methodologies and participatory design.  Verena has led over 20 projects funded by donor agencies, government and non-government partners. She has extensive experience in research and media capacity building in the Pacific region.

Associate Professor Naomi Godden
Naomi is a social worker, social justice and environmental activist, and feminist participatory action researcher from the rural community of Margaret River on Wardandi Boodja in Western Australia.  She has worked in in grassroots rural community organisations, local government, international development organisations such as Oxfam Australia and International Women’s Development Agency, and has worked in Australia, Peru, United States, Honduras, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, India and Thailand.  Naomi currently holds an ARC DECRA and has also lead grants funded by federal and state government.