Trickeries of Grant Work. (February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka
• Other Names: Gemignani Marco guest-editor.; Benozzo Angelo guest-editor.; Brinkmann Svend guest-editor.; Cisneros Puebla César A. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 20:Number 2(2014)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 212
• Publication Date: 2014-02
• Subjects: funded research -- qualitative research -- conversations; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800413510881
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This paper blends various accounts, materials, sources, and discourses involved in what I call "trickeries" of grant work. By combining different texts—academic, published, imagined, creative, and personal—I portray particular practices that highlight unpredictable and unreal processes of grant work. I share my experiences as a co-principal investigator (PI) in federally funded projects and offer images of projected conversations that have shaped my approaches to grant work. Even though I address some elements of grant proposals that have helped me secure external funding (e.g., the focus, innovativeness, manageability, collaboration, degree of detail, and epistemological and theoretical groundings of proposals), I also resist closure, singularity, and overly simplistic ways to describe how one can become or stay involved in funded research.