Writing Research Proposals in the Health Sciences

  Zevia Schneider was Associate Professor: Research and Co-ordinator of Higher Degrees by Research in the Faculty of Nursing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, and then Director of Post Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education. She has co-authored 5 editions of Nursing & Midwifery Research: methods and appraisal for evidence-based practice, with the 5th edition published in 2016. She has been involved in a range of funded research projects including pregnancy, ante-natal services, early discharge from hospital, distance education, and program evaluation. She has been an invited guest speaker, including an invitation from the Ministry of Education in Brunei to conduct a workshop for community health nurses. She has presented papers at national and international conferences. She completed a PhD in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her research area is pregnancy, in particular, pregnant couples’ educational role as educator of their infant. Jeffrey Fuller is the Emeritus Professor of Nursing (Primary Health Care) at Flinders University with a background in primary health care service quality and safety, integrated care, leadership, primary health care service evaluation and research capacity building in primary health care covering qualitative and quantitative methods. He was the Associate Dean (Research) in the Flinders School of Nursing & Midwifery from 2012-2015. He has completed 30 research-to-practice projects since 2000 in collaborative models of chronic illness care in Australia and China and he is the author of a large number research papers all conducted in partnership with service organisations so as to ensure relevance and implementation. Prior to academia he was the team leader of a community health service in the northern Adelaide region of South Australia. In 2015 he was awarded the Basil Hetzel Leadership Award in Public Health from the Public Health Association of Australia.

Chapter 1: Proposal Preparation
Chapter 2: Background and Justification for the Study
Chapter 3: Research and Approach Design
Chapter 4: Capturing Attention – Abstract, Title and Significance
Chapter 5: Feasibility, Track Records and Teams
Chapter 6: Writing and Ethics Proposal
Chapter 7: Writing a Funding Proposal