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How to get money from Research Councils

How to get money from Research Councils. Josef Perner. What to apply for?. apply interest. money. Interesting stuff. Advice from Friedrich‘s Advisor Find an intersection between what you want to do and what you know people want to give money for. My advice: Don‘t run after the money

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How to get money from Research Councils

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  1. How to get money from Research Councils Josef Perner

  2. What to apply for?

  3. apply interest money Interesting stuff • Advice from Friedrich‘s Advisor • Find an intersection between what you want to do and what you know people want to give money for. • My advice: • Don‘t run after the money • (or you end up doing things you don‘t want to do and you‘re bad at)

  4. Cutting Edge Science • Harry Collins (1985) CHANGING ORDER • Different forms of experiments: (1) teaching experiment: for the student the result he should get is known in advance (it's in the textbook). But the student has to find out how to use his hands and instruments so as to get the results given in the textbook. (2) normal science experiment: the results are not known, but the proper operating of the instruments and the needed skills are known. (3) cutting edge science: neither the results nor the proper operating of the instruments and the skills are known. That's what makes cutting edge science so difficult and so controversial. One has to find a way to break into the "experimenter's regress". from Martin Kusch

  5. Cutting Edge – StandardExample: Development • Cutting Edge • Theory about structure of mind: component mental capacities • Implication: developmental patterns • Task develop assessment of these capacities together with predicted patterns • Standard • Longitudinal Dependency • Standard tests applied at different ages • Learn: causal dependency among capacities

  6. Interdisciplinary: ESF (European Science Foundation) • no relation of the EU Commission!!! • coordinating research funded by national research councils • preference for interdisciplinary projects (e.g. LogiCCC) • How it works: • ESF sets an „Initiative“ • Member councils decide to participate and commit themselves to a maximum. • Applications for CRP (common research project) with at least 3 different participating councils • review process carried by ESF • successful CRPs‘ groups get money from council unless above committed limit. • Good chances if one joins a good group • less dependent on single negative reviews.

  7. EU • big money • very bureaucratic • only join if someone else is organising it

  8. How to apply

  9. Proposal • Theoretical Part: • clear overview of literature and development of question. • cite every potential reviewer at least once, and none too often. • Method: • Enough detail so that one can understand • what will be done and how it anwers questions • and that researcher is competent • structure so that one can see how each of the 3 years will be filled. • pretend you know what you will find to make it a coherent story • we all know that in the end it will turn out differently • Pauli

  10. How to react • Acceptance rates are low (FWF: 30%) • Rejection likely • Don‘t take it personally • Don‘t give up • Use reviewer‘s comments to improve next attempt • Rethink basic assumptions to make next proposal more cutting edge or better aimed at current questions.

  11. The END! $ £ € ¢

  12. Research Grants UK • Social Science Research Council (SSRC, UK) • 1982-84  "Development of Understanding Beliefs and Intentions" £ 18'636 • 1984-86  "Recursive Beliefs in Social Cognitive Development" £ 21'594 • Medical Research Council (MRC, UK) • 1988-89  "Autistic and Normal Children's Theory of Mind" jointly with Sue Leekam £ 29'882 • 1991-92  "Theory of Mind and Episodic memory in Autistic and Normal Children“ (G9026071N) £ 14'743 • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) • 1991-94  "Children's Conception of Desire, Motivation and Personality" (R000232886) jointly with Nicola Yuill £ 52'898 • 1993-96  "Children's Metacognition: social determinants and scientific reasoning" (R000234756) jointly with Dr Ted Ruffman £ 115'000

  13. Research Grants FWF • 1996-98  (P11397-SOZ) jointly with Anton Kühberger, "Simulation and Decision Making" € 72'500 • 1999-2002  (P13522-SOZ) "Theory of Mind and Executive Function: Normal Development and Children with ADHD" € 156'000 • 2000-2003  (P14495-SPR) jointly with Hubert Haider and Karin Landerl, "Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development" € 138'600 • 2002-2005  (P16215-G04) "Episodic Memory and Conscious Experience" € 164'782 • 2005-2008 co-applicant with Daniela Kloo Project (T 251-G04: Firnberg Stelle) “Object-Set-Shifting” € 174’720 • 2011-2015 Main applicant and speaker of Doctoral College (Doktoratskolleg plus: DK W 1233-G17) “Imaging the Mind: consciousness, higher mental and social processes” (Renewable up to 12 years). € 1’248’399

  14. Research Grants FWF/ESF • 2006-2011 • project (I93-G15) "Metacognition of Perspective Differences" for € 426'168, as part of the ESF EUROCORES CNCC (Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context) initiative collaborative research project, "Metacognition as a precursor to self-consciousness: evolution, development, and epistemology." • 2008-2011 • project (I140-G15) "Counterfactual reasoning in children" for € 199’452, as part of the ESF EUROCORES LogiCCC (Modelling Intelligent Interaction: Logic in the Humanities, Social and Computational Sciences) initiative collaborative research project, “The Logic of Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning in Uncertain Environments (LcpR).” • 2011-2014 • Principal investigator together with Daniela Kloo as collaborator of individual project IP4: “Rule-understanding, subjective perspectives, and social display rules,” for € 172.460, as part of the ESF collaborative project (10-EuroUnderstanding-FP-016) “Understanding the Normative Dimensions of Human Conduct: Conceptual and Developmental Issues (NormCon).”

  15. Research Grants: EU • Commission of the European Communities (EU) • 2007-2009  "Explaining Religion (EXREL)" (contract number 043225) • Sixth Framework Programme FP6-2006-Nest-Path, Cultural Dynamics. Coordinator: Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford). • Workpackage 4 (Salzburg): "Theory of mind and religion." € 163'859

  16. Research Grants: other sources • European Science Foundation (ESF) • 2008  “Metacognition of Ignorance” CNCC Session at the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Metacognition, 8-10 May 2008, Ioannina, Greece, € 22.520 • 2011-2014 Project Leader of project number 10-EuroUnderstanding-FP-016: “Understanding the Normative Dimensions of Human Conduct: Conceptual and Developmental Issues (NormCon)” €1’096’590 • Austrian Ministry (Research Framework of the F&E Offensive 2007/2008) • 2008 co-applicant within the Centre for Neurocognitive Research refurbished MRI-Scanner € 860’000 prefinanced Professorship Neurocognition & Development € 340’000

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