Grants - submissions and outcomes

It is hard to get research grants - there is limited funding and lots of amazing ideas being generated across the world. We have been working hard to submit a number of grants over the past year - including in the past two weeks. I hope that some of our grants that are currently in submission are funded - we have capacity to change practices that impact children across the world.

Four grants submitted in Nov/Dec by Kathy, Tamara and myself

Today I learned that one large collaborative grant that I submitted with colleagues at universities across Australia was not funded in the ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities 2026 announcement yesterday. https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/network-messages/announcement-grants-linkage-infrastructure-equipment-and-facilities-2026 What a shame it was a good project bringing amazing minds together to do good work. Congratulations to the teams working on the important projects that were funded.  

Writing grants

What a joy it is to work with A/Prof Kathy Cologon and A/Prof Tamara Cumming to prepare grant applications to fund the important work we want to do.

 

Research support for grant writing

Grant writing is a complex task requiring many different processes. Thanks to everyone including the CSU Grant Development Team (https://research.csu.edu.au/our-profile/our-people/staff) for enabling me to write grants at the moment so that we can support children to thrive. 

Sharon Geltch from CSU Research Grant Development Team

Tri Faculty Support Scheme

Congratulations to the following students who have been successful with their Tri Faculty Support Scheme funding:

• Holly McAlister - translation of resources into Pacifika languages
• Marie Ireland - attendance at the ASHA convention in Boston
• Belinda Downey - copyediting support
  

Peer review

I appreciate the peer review process as it enriches our research and the quality of the presentation/publication of our research. As a result, I try to agree to peer review requests if I have time. If I don't have time, I try to recommend someone else who may be suitable.
So far, in 2020 I have undertaken (or am in the process of finalising) a number of reviews, including for:
GRANTS 
• Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship, Discovery, DECRA)
• Speech Pathology Australia
• Charles Sturt University - Faculty of Arts and Education
JOURNAL ARTICLES 
• Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedia
• Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
• International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
• Language and Speech
• International Journal of Early Childhood
• Speech, Language, Hearing
CLASSIFICATIONS 
• World Health Organization (ICF2020)

Early Childhood Research Group meeting

Today our CSU Early Childhood Research Group met online. We discussed category 1-4 grants, and had an interactive presentation from Jane Norton from CSU Library about Research Professional. We also had a wonderful discussion to support one another through the COVID-19 pandemic changes to our research lives.