Fellowship Writing Support
F31/F30 Workgroup for NIH Predoctoral Fellowship Writers
Workgroup Details
Three groups per year
- Fall: Starting in September to prepare for the December 8 deadline
- Winter: Starting in January to prepare for the April 8 deadline
- Summer: Starting in May to prepare for the August 8 deadline
Benefits:
- Guidance and advice gathered from experienced faculty and prior F32 awardees
- Get a weekly plan with guidance, resources, and templates to develop the application and to help spread the work over 12 weeks
- The process is mostly asynchronous (self-directed), so work on your own schedule
- Two scheduled zoom meetings to get to know each other and share feedback and support
- Slack group for questions as they come up
- Faculty and peer support in editing your documents
- A timeline of assignments and tasks that keeps you accountable, helps you finish on time and with top quality documents
- A new peer network of supportive colleagues
Participant Responsibilities:
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Weekly writing assignments and preparation tasks
- Two group zoom meetings:
- Week 1 – Introduction, start on Specific Aims
- ~Week 6 – Specific Aims Feedback Session
- Joining co-working meetings on Zoom with other workgroup participants