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Summer Proposal Writing Workshops

Two Summer 2024 Proposal-Writing Opportunities

UT Austin-based and External Faculty Affiliates of the Population Research Center (PRC) or the Texas Center on Aging and Population Sciences (CAPS) are invited to participate in two proposal-writing workshops to be held this coming summer. Faculty should select the workshop that aligns best with their research topic and target funding agency. Both workshops are designed to teach the craft of grant preparation, including conceptualizing the project, forming a research team, writing the scientific components, managing the forms, budgeting, and understanding the review process. After participating in the workshops, participants are expected to have a draft proposal. Applicants must commit to submitting their proposal to NIH in fall 2024 or early spring 2025.

The workshops will involve 4 or 5 group meetings but will also require intensive proposal writing between meetings. Participants must commit to dedicating significant time this summer to the workshops and preparing their proposals. They must also commit to submitting their final proposals to a funding agency through the PRC or CAPS.

Details about each opportunity can be found in the table below.
 

 

PRC Summer Intensive Grant Writing Workshop 

 

CAPS Proposal Preparation Program 

 

Proposal deadline: 

 

March 26 

 

March 26 

 

Eligibility: 

 



PRC Faculty Scholars and External Faculty Affiliates who have not been PI on an R01. PRC postdoctoral scholars must receive prior approval from Development Director Jennifer Glass before applying. 

 

CAPS Faculty Affiliates or affiliates of a CAPS associated network who have not received an R01. 

Meeting dates: 

 


4 to 5 meetings over the summer, with one preliminary meeting in late April or early May 

 

4 to 5 meetings over the summer, with one preliminary meeting in April or early May 

 

Target funding agency: 

 


Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Population Dynamics Branch 

 

National Institute on Aging (NIA) 

 

Priority topics: 

 

  • Population health and well- being 

  • Reproductive, maternal, and infant health 

  • Family demography and human development 

  • Education, work, and institutions 

 

Demography and economics of aging, life course antecedents of adult development and aging, environment and place (including neighborhood, regions), and social contexts of aging (see descriptions listed at the CAPS website. 

 

Application requirements: 

 

  1. A draft of Specific Aims page that includes the goals of the project and the planned methodology. See NIH guidelines here. 

  2. A paragraph explaining how the planned project fits one or more PRC or CAPS priority topics listed above. 

  3. A statement explaining why this project is a logical next step in the applicant’s research program, what funding agency and mechanism (e.g., R01, K01, R21, R03) they are targeting, and whether their project will include collaborators at UT or elsewhere. 

  4. An NIH formatted biosketch: Biosketch format pages instructions, and samples are available here. 

 

Contact for questions: 

 



Dr. Jennifer Glass 
(jennifer-glass@utexas.edu) 
PRC Associate Director of Faculty Development 

 

Dr. Karen Fingerman (kfingerman@austin.utexas.edu), CAPS Director of Research 

 

Applications emailed to: 

 

jennifer-glass@utexas.edu 

 

caps@utexas.edu