Date: 18/06/2021

Speakers: Carl Reidsema & Steven Goh

Internal and external funding

• there is always money around
• be imaginative, be creative, e.g. academic development leave + request top-up
• seek matching funding from institution, leverage fear of missing out
• start small (could be only a few grand to support teaching innovation), figure out how much you can do and what you need
• getting first grant helps you understand your limitations (e.g. your role, other colleagues)

Consult widely

• curriculum, policies
• align with stakeholders – industry? community? institution? faculty?
• teaching and learning staff
• searches across institution
• find out who is doing what
• reach out to others in your area (e.g. via AAEE connections)
• mentors and advocates to support you, helping hand to get started

Good proposal, good budget, realistic idea of how to do it

• budgets should be meticulous – how is calculated, why it is required (strengthens your application)
• support for ideas, find out who is doing what (avoid being redundant)
• look at problems as opportunities, think about an issue for your institution or your school – step in and solve it
• pitch something that should be funded – so they find it harder to turn you down
• make mistakes and correct them, if you get rejected, rework it (fix it) and send it again
• spend time on a good application, keep something in your back pocket for when a grant scheme comes up
• build in a good evaluation program (have a good framework)
• chase it up (find out why you haven’t got an answer yet)

Building relationships, how you engage with others (establish your identity early in your career)

• relational vs transactional
• keep in mind that staff move around too
• you may feel uncomfortable bothering people, but do it (opportunities to find out more information)

Ethics approvals

• recruitment and coercion (work in pairs, so no perception of pressure), must opt-in if extra
• confidentiality, de-identification of student work
• equity, all students get the same support (even if they don’t choose to do it, e.g. course run in a different order)
• record keeping (data retention policies)