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Rachel Heyard; Sandar Lim; Anne Jorstad – Research Evaluation, 2025
To investigate whether the use of positive, self-promotional language in grant proposals is associated with the gender of the applicant, we used a cross-sectional analysis on 8,150 grant proposals submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation in life sciences disciplines across three different funding schemes, targeting applicants at…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Grants, Program Proposals, Gender Differences
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Liang Meng; Lei Chen; Diandian Zhang – Research Evaluation, 2024
In this study, to examine status compensation effect we explore an intriguing behavioral pattern of grant applicants. We draw from the status compensation hypothesis and examine the influence of an applicant's status (i.e. ranking of the applicant's affiliated institution) on the title length of the applicant's grant proposal. In addition, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Proposals, Grants, Institutional Characteristics
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Elisa Sarda; Olga Kasatkina; Erica de Vries – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
The aim of this study is to understand how lecturers interpret pedagogical innovations when describing and thinking about their practices. In this study we analysed the project proposals of a large call for proposals in a French university and questioned the managers of funded projects about their conceptions of pedagogical innovations. Results…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
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Tatiana Permyakova; Dmitriy Tulyakov; Ekaterina Balezina – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
Currently, the analysis of rhetorical moves is extensively applied to business genre conventions. This paper adopts a corpus-assisted genre approach to compare three major rhetorical moves in corpora of students' and professionals' project proposal abstracts to elicit evidence-based recommendations for the pedagogy of business communication. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Communication, Proposal Writing, Student Projects
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Julianne Cecile Barry; Tara Lise Erb; Krista Stelkia – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: The British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (BC NEIHR) aims to support and advance research leadership among Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations (ICCOs) within British Columbia, Canada. The BC NEIHR provides support and funding to ICCOs for research development and knowledge sharing. This…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Organizations (Groups), Community, Collectivism
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Hajar Choukrani; Thaura Ghneim-Herrera – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
This paper examines the transformative potential of integrating transdisciplinarity and systems thinking into educational practices, anchored in a participatory initiative by the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (MAK'IT). The study centres on engaging master's and doctoral students in co-creating educational proposals,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Advocacy, Learner Controlled Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach