Chapter 8: Planning the Project

Overview of Contents

• What do you bring from your own background and discipline?

• How have other projects approached this type of research?
  Searching for information

• How do other people think the research might be done?
  Case story – Getting input from others with an interest in the research
  Getting community input for project design
  Case story – Talking up the research: forum and follow-on consultation
  Case story – ‘Visual mapping’ as a design tool

• What resources are needed to do the project?
  Case story – Consider all resources needed for a project
  Working out resource needs

• Getting the plan right
  Using a quality assurance workshop
  How to plan a quality assurance workshop
  Be realistic and flexible about people’s input
  Getting agreement on the plan
  Planning for project management
  Planning an advisory group
  Case story – Planning and managing a study across Queensland
  Applying for ethics clearance
  Frequently asked questions about ethics applications
  Completing an ethics application form
  Before you submit the ethics application
  Writing a grant application
  Project design checklist for researchers

Excerpt from Chapter 8

This chapter sets out practical steps for designing a successful project that upholds Indigenous research values and has the elements needed to make a difference.

If you follow the steps in this chapter and document what you do, you will have the information needed when the time comes to write your research proposal. Grant application guidelines, university research guidelines and your project leader or supervisor can help you adapt the information to meet the criteria and proposal format required by a particular funding organisation or university.

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