The Social Scientist's Guide to Grant Success: A Playbook for Funding Research Frontiers

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The first grants guide specifically for social science researchers, this book encompasses the entire external funding project cycle, from research concept, team dynamics, funding source research, grant writing, and post-award management and reporting. Stephens and Kee present lessons learned from their more than $25 million in awarded grants to foster sustainable careers for researchers across the United States.


External funding opportunities for social scientists have increased considerably in the past decade, yet there are few graduate courses, workshops, and grant-seeking resources targeted specifically for their needs. This book helps social scientists evaluate the necessity for external funding, identify the research role they want to perform, lay the groundwork for choosing successful funding sources, and understand how to write proposals that make their social science expertise shine.

Designed for scholars in all phases of their research careers, the chapters discuss the often-hidden nature of how higher-education institutions vary in their support and rewards for scholars seeking and receiving external funding. By encouraging scholars to ask the right questions before they seek grants, they can use a more strategic approach to get the types of funding that will move their research goals forward.

Combining over 30 years of external funding experience working with five different academic institutions and seven different institutional support organizations, Stephens and Kee provide a strategic approach to approaching external funding. Having secured a combined $25 million from federal, state, industry, and foundational support, these authors are ready to share the keys to success and help you avoid pitfalls along the way.

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Keri K. Stephens is professor of organizational communication and technology, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and co-director of the Technology & Information Policy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. For over 20 years her interdisciplinary research has brought together different strands of communication inquiry: i.e., mobile and AI technologies, organizations, crisis/disasters, and health. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications appearing in prestigious research journals, proceedings, and books and her two most recent books (Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication and New Media in Times of Crisis) have won three national-level awards. Her research has garnered over $10 million USD in external funding including 12 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants, 12 State Grants, and industry and foundation funding. She has given over 30 international and US-based keynote talks, a TEDxTalk, and her community-engaged work has received awards from both the National and State Association of Counties. She has published with over 70 different graduate students, and her advisees have won four dissertation awards, and career awards such as the ICA Linda Putnam Early Career Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the NSF Dissertation Award.

Kerk F. Kee is the Hutcheson Endowed Professor in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University, USA. He is a communication researcher and an interdisciplinary social scientist of innovation diffusion. His research examines the adoption of big data technologies in science organizations, dissemination of health information in cultural communities, and the spread of pro-environmental attitude in modern societies. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/ Gulf Research Program, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, totaling over US$13 million to date. He received a prestigious NSF CAREER grant (2015), awarded by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under NSFs Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate. He has published about 70 peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles, proceeding papers, book chapters, and a book. His research has been cited over 7,500 times according to Google Scholar in January 2024.