Check out these articles, links to useful resources, tips, and opportunities to find the information you need to keep your career on track. This quarter you’ll find tons of grant resources and tips for new investigators.
Ready for your next job or promotion? See the post-doc and fellowship announcements, interview tips, and advice for transitioning to tenure.
Grant Resources & Scientific Writing
- Applications for Training in Grantsmanship in Rehabilitation Research (TIGRR) are due Aug 15th (but this is a soft deadline so consider contacting them and possibly applying even if it is a little past the due date!)
- Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R21/R33); (PAR-16-367) National Institute on Aging/National Cancer Institute; Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply.
- REACT Center Voucher program to facilitate access to rehabilitation research resources. Pilot funding for Medical rehabilitation research up to $40,000.
- Introduction to Proposal Writing (Free) Webinar
- Free Webinar: Tips and Tricks for a Successful Grant Seeking Strategy
- Building a Stellar Grant-Seeking Team
- Other Grant-related training webinars
- Small grants for neurocognitive research and translation of neurocognitive research into practice
- National Research Mentoring Network programs to support early career researchers
- *Fahs-Beck doctoral dissertation and faculty/postdoctoral grant programs DUE November 1
- *Grant and scholarship programs for speech language pathologists/researchers: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- *Early career in neurosciences: Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship awards in the neurosciences
- *Award $100,000/yr for 3 years. Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards
- Chronic Pain Grant Opportunity: PS and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change (IGLC) are excited to announce their collaboration in a new $2 million funding opportunity focused on improving care for individuals with chronic pain. It is the intent of this RFP to solicit applications related to the objectives in the National Pain Strategy (NPS), released last month by the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). How to Submit Your LOI: Please go to the website and click on the button, “Go to the Grant System.”
Registered users should select the LOI link under Track 1-Learning & Change. If this is your first time visiting this site you will be prompted to take the Eligibility Quiz. Please be sure to identify yourself as a first-time user. Select the following Area of Interest: IMPROVING CHRONIC PAIN CARE.
- Conference at NIH, Rehabilitation Research: Moving the Field Forward. If you missed it or want to share it with colleagues, the videocast is available at the following links:
Career Development Training/ Jobs / Promotion/ Tenure
- ACRM Rehab Job Board
- Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Personal Health Informatics and Rehabilitation Engineering (PHIRE) Laboratory, Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University. We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead an extramurally funded project aimed at studying physical activity levels of individuals with spinal cord injury in the community. The project aims to develop algorithms that incorporate each individual’s physical activity level and a clinician’s physical activity recommendation. A smartphone application will incorporate these algorithms to help a person set safe and highly personalized physical activity goals. The candidate must have finished his or her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or interdisciplinary programs focusing on personal health informatics, have experience with development and evaluation of algorithms for sensor based activity monitors in people, have experience with project management for subject recruitment and testing, data collection, data management, statistical analysis and dissemination of project findings. In addition, the candidate will work closely with a number of project partners at other academic institutions and local hospitals. The candidate will be expected to manage PHIRE lab’s graduate and undergraduate students, and to maintain an active publication and conference travel portfolio. Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The Carnegie Foundation has designated Temple as a Research university (highest research activity) and Community Engagement classification for Curriculum Engagement and Outreach and Partnerships. Temple University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. The position is available from September 1, 2016. Applications are being reviewed as they arrive. Interested candidates should submit a CV and a cover letter by email to Shiv.Hiremath@temple.edu. The cover letter should indicate how their background might fit with our project.
- Faculty-Level Research Position in Movement Science and Rehabilitation
- From PhD to Professor: Advice for Landing Your First Academic Position
- Tips to prepare for a successful academic interview
- 8 tips for a successful academic job search
- Giving and Getting Career Advice
- Development Workshops and Events
Mentoring Resources
- National Research Mentoring Network
- Career Toolkit on Mentoring
- How to find an Academic Mentor
- How to find good mentors
Leadership, Collaboration & Networking
- What is team science?
- Developing your Career in an Age of Team-Science
- Networking
- Finding collaborators
- How to find research friends and collaborators
Work-Life Balance
- Let’s retire the term ‘Work-life’ Balance
- Can scientists really have work/life balance?
- Academic Motherhood
- Do male and female academic work-life balance differ?
Clinicians and Rehabilitation Engineers
- Cognitive Rehabilitation Training
- ACBIS Training
- Good Therapy for clinicians
- Defense Centers of Excellence Webinar Series
- How to read and apply results of a systematic review to patient care
- Center for Evidence-based medicine
- Evidence-based toolkit
- Basic stats for clinicians
- ICD 10 Codes
Conferences Tips
- See this issue’s original article by Ekaterina D. on How to Prepare for a Conference
- Networking
- Career Toolkit on Scientific Presentations
