Who is Shirley Moore, Grant Writer?
Let me share a little about myself. I am a Professor of Nursing and the Associated Dean for Research at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. I study recovery following cardiac events, with an emphasis on lifestyle change. Most recently I have been conducting trials of interventions to increase lifestyle exercise in cardiac patients. I also direct a P30 Center of Excellence in Self-Management Research and run a T32 Training program for predocs and postdocs. You can read more about me at this website.
I am just finishing a current grant, and the grant application that I am blogging about is a competing continuation of this grant. (Competing continuation applications scare me – Do I have enough data from the current study to go forward in this area? Do I have the right idea to even put forward as the next step? It’s pretty obvious that I need to have a telephone conversation with my NIH program officer to get his opinion. I’ll share in an upcoming posting what I do to prepare for this call.)
Oh, I promised in this posting that I would share my grant writing workplan (timeline) for writing this application. I always do a workplan for each grant that I write. I start with a template and then I personalize it for each project. Here is my template. Here is my draft workplan for this project. I call it a draft workplan because I find myself revising it frequently as I get deeper and deeper into the application. I don’t know what I would do without this workplan, though. It keeps me focused on the right thing at the right time (and prevents me from getting paralyzed when I am overwhelmed). Let me know if you try it and it is helpful to you or if you have suggestions. Remember, you will see this change a lot of the course of the next 3 months as I personalize it more to this project and my progress.
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