TY - JOUR
T1 - Trickeries of Grant Work
AU - Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka
N1 - Funding Information:
Research examples come from the following project: Douglas, E., Koro-Ljungberg, M. & Therriault, D. Empirical study on emerging research: The role of epistemological beliefs and cognitive processing on engineering students’ ability to solve ambiguous problems. National Science Foundation Grant 0909976.
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In current textual cabinet, which also inhabits some ghosts of “grant work,” I share my experiences as a co-principal investigator (PI) and offer images of various ghost conversations that have shaped my approaches to grant work as a result of my involvement in National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health (NIH) funded projects in the United States. I highlight potential ways to engage in innovative, collaborative, and manageable grant work (see also ; ; ; ). However, at the same time, I want to resist closure and singular or overly simplistic ways to describe how one can become or stay involved in funded research. In this paper, I draw from knowing while at the same time not completely relying on it. I create ghostly moments in a space of invisible visibility as might describe it. Ghosts and ghostly moments are something that one does not know and something that one is uncertain whether it exists. “For there to be ghost, there must be a return to the body, but to a body that is more abstract than ever. The spectrogenic process corresponds therefore to a paradoxical incorporation” (, p. 157). The cabinet of curiosity presented here can also serve a ghostly prompt and, a pre-text, frame of remembering and reflecting (see also ). The content of the cabinet including stories from nowhere and everywhere may come upon readers as the copies of the copies, repetition, images, and textual bodies that are simultaneously real and unreal, representative yet imagined. Some materials and images represent my views and others those of the ghosts. In addition, I have not collected “official” data beyond the document examples that cite published NSF materials.
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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article is based on research supported by the National Science Foundation DRL-Research and Evaluation on Education in Science Engineering under Grant 0909976 and by National Institute of Mental Health RO1 MH57399.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - This paper blends various accounts, materials, sources, and discourses involved in what I call "trickeries" of grant work. By combining different texts-academic, published, imagined, creative, and personal-I portray particular practices that highlight unpredictable and unreal processes of grant work. I share my experiences as a co-principal investigator (PI) in federally funded projects and offer images of projected conversations that have shaped my approaches to grant work. Even though I address some elements of grant proposals that have helped me secure external funding (e.g., the focus, innovativeness, manageability, collaboration, degree of detail, and epistemological and theoretical groundings of proposals), I also resist closure, singularity, and overly simplistic ways to describe how one can become or stay involved in funded research.
AB - This paper blends various accounts, materials, sources, and discourses involved in what I call "trickeries" of grant work. By combining different texts-academic, published, imagined, creative, and personal-I portray particular practices that highlight unpredictable and unreal processes of grant work. I share my experiences as a co-principal investigator (PI) in federally funded projects and offer images of projected conversations that have shaped my approaches to grant work. Even though I address some elements of grant proposals that have helped me secure external funding (e.g., the focus, innovativeness, manageability, collaboration, degree of detail, and epistemological and theoretical groundings of proposals), I also resist closure, singularity, and overly simplistic ways to describe how one can become or stay involved in funded research.
KW - conversations
KW - funded research
KW - qualitative research
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U2 - 10.1177/1077800413510881
DO - 10.1177/1077800413510881
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893042348
SN - 1077-8004
VL - 20
SP - 203
EP - 212
JO - Qualitative Inquiry
JF - Qualitative Inquiry
IS - 2
ER -