Stanford Biosciences Grant Writing Academy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2020 Dec 28;15(12):e0243973. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243973. eCollection 2020.
Grant writing is an essential skill to develop for academic and other career success but providing individual feedback to large numbers of trainees is challenging. In 2014, we launched the Stanford Biosciences Grant Writing Academy to support graduate students and postdocs in writing research proposals. Its core program is a multi-week Proposal Bootcamp designed to increase the feedback writers receive as they develop and refine their proposals. The Proposal Bootcamp consisted of two-hour weekly meetings that included mini lectures and peer review. Bootcamp participants also attended faculty review workshops to obtain faculty feedback. Postdoctoral trainees were trained and hired as course teaching assistants and facilitated weekly meetings and review workshops. Over the last six years, the annual Bootcamp has provided 525 doctoral students and postdocs with multi-level feedback (peer and faculty). Proposals from Bootcamp participants were almost twice as likely to be funded than proposals from non-Bootcamp trainees. Overall, this structured program provided opportunities for feedback from multiple peer and faculty reviewers, increased the participants' confidence in developing and submitting research proposals, while accommodating a large number of participants.
撰写资助申请是学术和其他职业成功的必备技能，但为大量学员提供个人反馈极具挑战性。2014 年，我们启动了斯坦福生物科学资助写作学院，为研究生和博士后提供支持，帮助他们撰写研究提案。该学院的核心项目是一个为期数周的提案训练营，旨在增加学员在撰写和完善提案时收到的反馈。提案训练营包括两小时的每周会议，包括小型讲座和同行评审。训练营参与者还参加了教师评审研讨会，以获得教师的反馈。博士后学员接受培训并被聘为课程助教，协助每周会议和评审研讨会。在过去的六年中，年度训练营为 525 名博士生和博士后提供了多层次的反馈（同行和教师）。参加训练营的提案获得资助的可能性是未参加训练营的学员的两倍。总的来说，这个结构化的项目为学员提供了来自多个同行和教师评审人的反馈机会，提高了他们撰写和提交研究提案的信心，同时还能容纳大量的参与者。
