Set yourself up for grant success – Allied Health, Nursing and Midwifery

Presented as a parallel session at the Western Australian Health Translation Network’s Science on the Swan 2023 Conference

Event details:

Date:	Wednesday 10 May
Time:	9:00am – 2:30pm
Format:	Face to face workshop
Venue:	Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
Capacity:	60 pax
Audience:	Open to all (incl SOTS non-attendees)
Registration:	Venue: SOTS conference organisers Registration: SOTS conference organisers

The WA Department of Health Office of Medical Research and Innovation (OMRI) and the University of Western Australia present a workshop for allied health, nursing and midwifery researchers to develop their health research grant writing skills.

About this event

Grant funding is highly competitive but, when successful, offers an opportunity to further your research, gain visibility, and engage more effectively with the community you serve.

The WA Department of Health Office of Medical Research and Innovation and The University of Western Australia are co-hosting a grant writing workshop at the Science on the Swan 2023 Conference for allied health, nursing and midwifery researchers to develop skills in writing grant applications and improve success rates in winning funding. We will focus on how to position yourself, how to identify key information that should be presented in a proposal, ways of presenting this information, storytelling, and language. Hear tips and advice from experienced researchers and university research office speakers on how to write a wining application. At the end of this workshop, participants will have the tools necessary to help write their next successful grant application.

If capacity is exceeded, please register your interest for the waitlist.

Guest Speaker Bios – to be supplied on confirmation of speakers

Proposed SOTS program detailed agenda

9:00-9:10am	Introduction Speaker: Professor Vasan Seshadri, or nominee, with Professor Romola Bucks Local MC Acknowledgment of Country Welcome to event – program outline Intro to MC
9:10-9:15am	MC tbc Housekeeping – emergency exits…, restrooms…, refreshments,….
9:15-9:25am	Overview of Future Health Reasearcn and Innovation Fund (FHRI) Programs tbc, OMRI
9:25-10:30	Session 1. Positioning yourself and grant writing skills Speaker: Evenda Dench (UWA Research Office) General advice about how to approach grant writing will be presented. We will focus on how to position yourself, how to identify key information that should be presented in a proposal (e.g. significance, stakeholders, translation, impact/benefit), ways of presenting this information, storytelling, and language.
10:30-11:00am	Morning tea
11:00am-11:45pm	Session 2. Consumer involvement (45mins) Speakers: Debra Langridge (WAHTN CCIProgram) This session will present an overview of CCI and its importance for research, how and when to engage with consumers, and ways to involve consumers in research. This session will also explore how consumer representatives on grant review panels assess grants and what makes an application stand out.
11:45am-12:30pm	Session 3. How to be successful (45mins) Speaker: TBC This session will focus on strategies for developing a successful research career, with advice from a successful applicant on how they have approached their successful grant application/s.
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch break
1:30-2:15pm	Session 4. Reviewer’s perspective (45mins) Speaker: TBC An experienced grant reviewer to present on what they look for in a successful application.
2:15-2:30pm	Close Speaker: UWA MC
2:30-3:05pm	NA
3:05-3:30pm	Afternoon tea