Proposal Development Skill-Building Series

Acquire and implement the skills fundamental to developing a research proposal. Designed for faculty and permanent staff researchers at all stages of their career, activities range from gaining competitive intelligence to writing pieces of a proposal in real time. Workshops include practical, hands-on components to help researchers move closer to their proposal development goals. Register for upcoming sessions via the events sidebar, and visit the resource library for slides, handouts, and recordings from past events.

Find Funding and Support

Explore tools and campus resources to support your short and long-term research goals.

Proposal Development Resource Fair

Meet and network with the on-campus teams that provide support for proposal development. Map out the resources that are most useful to you to create a customized support plan. 

When: Fall 2024

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Create Your Grant Submissions Calendar

Carve out time to plan out your grant deadlines and the milestones you need to reach in order to submit. 

When: Summer 2024

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UT Internal Research Funds

An overview of internal research funds at UT, presented by the UT units that support them. Strategize how one-time internal funds can help you plan for longer-term external funding. 

When: Fall 2024

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Funder-Specific Advice

OVPR offers competitive intelligence, best practices, and strategic peer advice on specific funding opportunities across disciplines. Check out upcoming events, or search the Resource library for tips on NEH, NIH, NSF, DoD funding and more.

When: Ongoing, throughout the academic year

Demystifying IDC

Indirect costs help to reimburse the less apparent, but very real operating costs of doing research. Learn about the what and the why of IDC at this annual webinar. 

When: Fall 2024

Pitch Your Research

Articulate your research for external audiences to expand your potential to acquire research funding.

The How and Why of Contacting a Program Officer

Program officers play a valuable role in connecting your research to the funders’ goals. Learn best practices and draft early communications with program officers in this workshop.

When: Summer 2025

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Perfect Your Research Pitch

Have a meeting with your program officer coming up? Explaining your research vision to potential collaborators? Practice your pitch and receive real-time feedback from an interdisciplinary group of your peers. 

When: Spring 2025

Collaborate and Expand your Research Impact

Take your research to the next level through interdisciplinary collaborations. Expand the impact of your work through partnerships and outreach.

Embark on Collaborative Research

A panel of UT researchers share their best practices for beginning and sustaining collaborative research projects. 

When: Spring 2025

Center Grants 101

Create a blueprint for developing a complex, center-scale proposal. 

When: Spring 2025

Research Impact Series and Tools

Check out our workshops, tools, and online resources designed to help you create a research impact plan, applicable to NSF Broader Impacts, DOE PIER Plans, DoD Equity Action Plans, and other funders with similar requirements. 

When: Ongoing, throughout the academic year

Research Impact Resource Fair

Connect with the on-campus support units that facilitate community engagement, educational outreach, industry relations, and other areas of research impact. With facilitated networking activities, this is also an opportunity to connect with other researchers invested in expanding their research impact. 

When: Spring 2025

Write and Develop

Join OVPR for facilitated writing sessions and seminars to write and revise your proposals.

Grant Writing Seminar

Our annual, full-day seminar on grant writing tips with a focus on federal funding. 

When: Spring 2025

Write a Research Overview

How do you distill your complex research proposal into a page? Structure your overview or abstract according to our best tips and receive feedback from your peers in this workshop. 

When: Spring 2025

Research Impact Writing Retreat

If you’ve utilized our research impact resources and want to take the next step, join us for an all-day writing retreat. Participants will develop and write an effective impact plan. 

When: Spring 2025

Align Supplemental Documents with Your Research Vision

Supplemental documents like budgets, bios or biosketches, and data management plans are all a part of the story that your proposal tells. In this workshop, participants will assess whether their supplemental documents are aligned and convey the same message. 

When: Spring 2025

After Submission

Assessing Feedback on Your Grant Proposal

Distill reviewer feedback with a group of your peers and create an action plan for resubmission. 

When: Summer 2025

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Office of Sponsored Projects and Post-Award Support

Congratulations on your award! 

Check out resources from the Office of Sponsored Projects and the research administration directory for essential post-award support.

Upcoming Events

OVPR's Investigator Skill-Building events are designed and reserved for campus faculty and research staff with PI status only. Non-PI staff and students, while ineligible to register, are welcome to view materials in OVPR's resource library.