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Grant Services
Jeff Meserve, the HI Associate Director for Research Development, provides researchers with support for grants throughout the lifecycle of the project. Through workshops, proposal development, and post-award support, Jeff welcomes the opportunity to assist researchers and can be contacted at meserve@austin.utexas.edu.
Getting Started
To start working with Jeff on a grant or fellowship, please submit details via the Google Form linked below at least three weeks before the application deadline.
Intake Form
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Suite of Services
- Proposal Development: Crafting compelling grant proposals.
- Information Sessions: Fellowship and grant opportunities.
- One-on-One Meetings: Finding funding opportunities and discussing research design.
- Proposal Strategies/ Workshops: Tailored for research interests and grant applications.
- Editorial Services: Revising grant and/or fellowship applications.
- Collaborative Team-Building: Matching research interests with colleagues around campus.
Grant Services
Stages of Grant Services
The Humanities Institute works with researchers at various stages of their grant-seeking timeline. You may be new to grants and interested in proposal development or an orientation to extramural funding opportunities. You may also be at the pre-award stage where you have identified a grant funding opportunity and would like to submit a proposal. Or you may be at the post-award stage and have already been awarded funding and now need help managing the project. We can assist with all these scenarios and have picked out a few common questions that relate to each instance below. We also have linked to an HI proposal intake form for any researchers who wish to get their proposals directly into Jeff’s queue for review and processing in advance of a grant submission.
- Beginner:
I’m new to grants, how do I get started? - Intermediate:
I know what I want to do, how do I do it? - Expert:
I got a grant, how do I run it? - Tab Option 4
- Tab Option 5
- How would you describe your research or scholarship to an audience outside your field?
- Creating a 1-page statement of work or abstract describing what work you will do will help narrow the focus of your research project.
- What do you need to do your research?
- Examples may include travel, student researchers, community advisors, website development, workshops, etc.
- Do you know how long the work will take and when it would start? What subject area would the research encompass?
- The length of the project and potential areas of inquiry will allow for tailored grant and fellowship recommendations.
- Which funding opportunity are you targeting?
- A checklist and timeline will be created for you to make sure the proposal contains all the components and the grant is approved and submitted by appropriate university entities.
- Do you have external partners, advisors, or consultants in your workplan?
- Letters of commitment or subcontractual agreements will be developed in advance of the submission.
- Is your project legible to an external reviewer?
- Your narrative will be refined to be understandable to scholars outside of your field and the goals and outcomes of your work clearly articulated.
- I have an award letter, how do I spend my money?
- We will have an orientation meeting with you to design a spendplan and map out the steps needed to pay people and organizations.
- How do I handle reporting for an award?
- You will produce a narrative for the technical reporting of the report; any financial reporting will be produced by OSP, with whom Jeff will liaise.
- I need to extend the award and pay someone not in the proposal, how do I do this?
- Jeff will review the agreement’s terms and determine if sponsor approval is needed for budget adjustments and the process to request a “no-cost extension” on the award.