Suggested criteria given to students when they submit their proposals for the grant.
Should be helpful in the review process.
IN THE PROPOSAL YOU MUST PRESENT:
- a statement of the problem and its significance
- materials and methods, including a summary of relevant pilot data and logistic support available for the proposed research, and
- a complete bibliography including titles of papers cited (note: the bibliography will also not be counted in the word limit).
As most applicants will not have extensive experience preparing grant applications, please consider the following advice before submitting your application. Have your application critically reviewed by at least one senior scientist before submission. Our reviewers will assess the conceptual significance and intellectual merit of your proposal, so give the proposed work a clear conceptual context and theoretical rationale. Reviewers also judge the feasibility of the proposed work, so information about pilot data and relevant experience of the applicant and collaborators is helpful. If your work will be based on techniques that require special statistical justification, be sure to include information that will allow reviewers to evaluate this as well. Clearly state the hypotheses you are testing. Your proposal will compete with other highly original ones, and reviewers will judge the originality and feasibility of your proposal relative to others in the field of animal behavior.
