Webinar: Finding and Writing Grants to Fund your Geography Research
Date and Time: Thursday, November 18, 2021 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm U.S. Eastern Time
If you are on your way to earn a PhD in geography (or related) or if you recently graduated, you are likely making your first steps into applying for grants that can fund your work. This webinar will feature scientists that have experience in writing proposals and finding grants, whether from federal programs such as NSF and NIH, or from other sources such as non-profits and foundations. They will share stories about the experiences they had and about ways to communicate the geographic perspective of our work.
As an audience member, you will have the possibility to ask questions, but below are a few questions we already plan to ask:
- Can you describe your first experience getting your work funded and how the funding process has changed since then?
- When competing against other researchers for funding what strengths do you think geographers bring, and what is your advice for them on how to communicate these strengths?
- Where do you look for funding these days, and how do you start you search to find a grant program that fits your work?
Jenna Dixon
(moderator) The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus
Elizabeth Ann Olson
(panelist) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher P. Thornton
(panelist) National Endowment for the Humanities
Jenna Dixon (moderator) The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus
Jenna Dixon (she/her/hers) is a health geographer interested in the ways that societal structures shape the experiences and outcomes of health and wellbeing. Jenna has navigated the treacherous world of grants having success during her PhD both big (Canadian: IDRC, SSHRC, Africa Initiative) and small (travel grants), and has participated in several successful (and a few not!) team grants since that time. Currently she is conducting research on the ways funding agencies consider equity in their strategic, operational and peer-review policies and what this means for who gets funded.
Elizabeth Ann Olson (panelist) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth Ann Olson () is a Professor of Geography and Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, and currently serves as department Chair. Olson's interests are broadly encompassed by ethics, care, and young people – often in relation to the production and experience of inequality and intergenerationality. For the past eight years Olson's research shifted toward understanding historical and contemporary caregiving by young people in the U.S. and the future of care.
Christopher P. Thornton (panelist) National Endowment for the Humanities
Christopher P. Thornton (he/him/his) was trained as an anthropologist and archaeologist, but has spent most of his career as a grantmaker. From 2010-2018 he oversaw fieldwork grants in human, biological, and physical geography at the National Geographic Society (a non-profit foundation), whereas since 2018 he has overseen fieldwork grants and research fellowships in social and cultural geography at the National Endowment for the Humanities (a Federal agency).
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Finding and Writing Grants to Fund your Geography Research
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Date and Time: Thursday, November 18, 2021 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm U.S. Eastern Time
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