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Marsden SOC process• There are ‘Standard’ and ‘Fast Start’ applications
• Standards are generally for 3 years, typically for c $6-800k
• Fast Starts are for 2 years, for those within 7 years of PhD completion; for c $160k
• There are two rounds: preliminary and full proposals
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Initial proposal• Panel has about nine members, drawn from a
range of SOC disciplines (education, business, sociology, social policy, human geography)
• Proposals must therefore be written for an intelligent lay panel with a premium on clarity and purposiveness
• About 25% make it through to the next stage. The reason is to save 75% the effort of full proposal preparation
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What needs to be in an initial proposal?
• It’s short: so the argument must be clear• What is being done, why, what’s its
significance (theoretical, empirical, national)?
• Is there is an obvious aim, question?• Does the research matter? Will it grab a
SOC panel?
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Full proposal
• Something between 25 and 50% of full proposals will be successful
• The credibility of the proposal is critical
• So too is the credibility of the applicants
• Even successful proposals may not be fully funded: to give over the odds to one proposal will mean the demise of another
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Credibility of the proposal
• Research question, aim or objective(‘The aim of this proposal is..)
Why are you doing this?What is its purpose?What is its significance?
• Is it situated in a relevant literature; does it draw on, contribute to pertinent theory?
• Has there been a pilot project: will it work?
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Credibility of the team
• Does the team have a track record?
• Is the strongest person/s leading it?
• Is the topic one that sits with the track record of the team?
• Is the team selling itself and its proposal on merit and the strength of its argument, or is it ‘bolding’ unnecessary claims to ‘originality’ or ‘innovation’?
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What if it fails?
• Then persist!
• To not succeed means that the proposal is not yet good enough
• Work on it: develop the argument, workshop it, try again
• Don’t give up for ever, or come back next time with something completely different