NHMRC – Ideas Grant Workshop
A Workshop to Help You Meet High Scoring Criteria and Avoid Common Pitfalls
Our NHMRC Ideas Grant Application workshop
The NHMRC Ideas Grant seeks innovative studies to produce outputs and outcomes that will advance or impact the research or health area. We have created a specific, interactive, activity-based workshop that helps you to write the best proposal. Our Ideas Grant Workshop outlines the essential requirements and elements to include in the three supplementary sections. During the workshop, participants will have time to work on their applications and refine these statements under our guidance and instruction.
The objective of the Ideas Grant scheme is to support innovative research projects addressing a spceific question(s).
The expected outcomes of the scheme are:
- innovative and creative research
- funding of researchers at all career stages
- funding any area of health and medical research from discovery to implementation
Biggest Challenges
Typically with this type of grant, we have found that the applicant is not clear on what constitutes innovation and how to clearly show that their idea is new, different, and creative. We have developed proprietary models and processes that will show you exactly how you can identify your innovative approach and show this in a compelling way—ultimately leaving you with a clear, succinct and well-structured application.
This interactive workshop is designed to empower researchers with the insights and skills needed to craft competitive NHMRC Ideas Grant applications. Leveraging key feedback from grant assessors, this session will focus on addressing the characteristics of high-scoring applications while helping participants overcome the pitfalls often seen in low-scoring submissions.
What You Will Learn:
- Clarity and Impact: Craft concise, clear, and engaging responses tailored to the Ideas Grant scheme, avoiding jargon and technical density.
- Research Quality Excellence: Develop well-defined research aims, robust hypotheses, and coherent methodologies that align with objectives and resources.
- Showcasing Innovation: Effectively articulate novel ideas and innovative methods that stand out to assessors.
- Highlighting Significance: Demonstrate transformative potential and clearly connect your project’s outcomes to bigger-picture goals.
- Building Capability: Showcase your team’s expertise, collaboration, and capacity to deliver ambitious, high-impact research.
This workshop addresses key challenges that have led to poor outcomes for many applicants, including:
- Overly technical or incoherent applications
- Misaligned research plans and aims
- Weak justifications for significance and innovation
- Insufficient demonstration of team capability
Who Should Attend?
Researchers preparing NHMRC Ideas Grant applications, from early career to experienced investigators, seeking to refine their proposals and maximise their chances of success.
Workshop Inclusions
DURATION
Half Day
3.5
Hours
ATTENDEES
Up to
25
Participants
LOCATION
Online
&
Offline Options
LEAD TIME
Bookings
4 Weeks
in advance
Workshop Content
Innovation and Creativity
(1 Page – 25%)
- Understand what the NHMRC means when they ask about Innovation and Creativity
- Determine what is innovative about your planned research.
- Learn how to determine, outline, and explain your point of difference
- Get tips and tricks on how to write about innovation in a way that makes sense to reviewers
- Learn a logical progression method for describing innovation and the resulting outputs of your proposed project
Significance
(1 Page – 20%)
- Understand what advancements to and/or impact on the research or health area really looks like in an application.
- Get advice on how to position your work to show your significance
- Learn how to show critical importance within this section
- Know what it is to write about outcomes in science, knowledge, practice and policy for the Ideas Grant applications
- Learn how to consider research outputs and then describe them effectively
Capability
(1 Page – 20%)
- Understand the elements to include in your capability statement
- Learn how to map these elements to your proposal idea to ensure all necessary information and appropriate expertise is included
- Begin writing about capability in a way that best demonstrates you and your teams expertise
- Getting the balance of information right for depth and breadth of capability
- How to show, not just tell your leadership and capability in the management of resources, personnel, and administrative requirements.
Zoom Link and Recordings:
All our workshops and training are provided via Zoom. The RIA Team will provide the zoom link with the passcode to the client or workshop participants directly. The RIA Team will manage the recording of the workshop and give 1-month of exclusive access with a unique password to the participants. Any request to extend the access shall be subject to approval by RIA’s Principal.
Your Workshop Facilitator
Dr Tamika Heiden
Principal & Founder
Tamika is the Principal and Founder of the Research Impact Academy, a global organisation, based in Australia, that helps researchers and research organisations achieve their goals. She is a passionate advocate for research impact and has over 15 years of experience in the field.
Tamika began her career as a researcher in the field of health. She quickly became disillusioned with the traditional approach to research, which she felt was too focused on publication and not enough on impact and left academia to pursue a career in knowledge translation, where she worked to bridge the gap between research and practice.
In 2014, Tamika founded Knowledge Translation Australia, which later rebranded as the Research Impact Academy. The academy provides a range of services to help researchers and research organisations achieve their goals, including training and development, consulting, coaching, membership, and events.
Under Tamika’s leadership, the Research Impact Academy has helped researchers to secure millions of dollars in research funding and to make a real-world impact. She is a respected thought leader in the field of research impact and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and events around the world.
Tamika is a strong advocate for the importance of research impact. She believes that research should be used to solve real-world problems and to improve people’s lives. She is committed to helping researchers and research organisations achieve their goals and to making a positive impact on the world.
What people are saying about our workshops & training…
“This was a really useful workshop, which provided practical advice and helpful resources for writing a very good grant application. The material was presented clearly, and I would highly recommend the workshop to colleagues.”
Dr Natalie Mills, University of Adelaide
“This workshop has been very helpful in outlining what is required for the three additional sections within the Ideas Grant. The examples provided are relevant and appropriate within the context.”
Joanne Tan, NHMRC Ideas Workshop
Feedback from our clients
Why work with us?
The Research Impact Academy is a purpose-driven organisation that exists to help research and researchers make a difference in the world. We simplify the process of creating, capturing and communicating impact by supporting our clients to enhance their skills, connect with stakeholders, and drive meaningful change.
Inspired by our mission to unveil the incredible research being conducted worldwide and to unlock the potential of revolutionising knowledge, we guide our clients to identify pathways that deliver the right information to the right people, at the right time, and in the right format. We develop easy to use models, frameworks and processes and, through our training, consulting, evaluation and membership, share these with researchers and research organisations globally.
Our work is driven by our core values:
- Inspire action – Everything we create and deliver contains elements that spark inspiration.
- Be a catalyst for change – We use out of the box thinking to deliver innovative transformations
- Provide solutions not problems – We think forward, offering solutions and guiding with positivity and optimism.
Our international advisory board brings global expertise to enhance our services. As a B1G1 Business for Good, we incorporate purpose and meaning into our business through giving. Together with our clients, we make a difference in the world by doing what we do every day.