The Research Development Team at
MRO have received strategic advice from an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (ECF)
peer review panel member:
"They mentioned that host
institution in-kind support had been quantified in the Executive Summary of
some NHMRC ECF fellowship applicants. They referred to it as an "X
factor" that helped to differentiate funded from un-funded
applicants."
Although Monash University
encourages NHMRC applicants to demonstrate funding sources (including local
sources) when discussing feasibility of aims in their Grant Proposal PDF, we
have not previously encouraged applicants to quantify in-kind support in the
summary sections. We now think this is a missed opportunity, not only for our
ECFs, but particularly CDFs and RFs, for whom competition is extremely fierce.
We would like to encourage
applicants for the next round to quantify the in-kind support coming to them
from Monash University. They will all have some as a matter of course
(on-costs, equipment access, etc) - and some will be able to add in-kind cash
for direct costs, such as support for stipends, research consumables,
etc.
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