Office of Research Administration - Meet with RA to Discuss Proposal
Once you know you will be pursuing a specific funding opportunity, arrange to meet with the Curry School's Research Administrator to discuss your plans. She can help you draw up a timetable for completing specific proposal components based on the sponsor's deadline and the complexity and scope of your proposal. In each of the last few years, Curry School faculty and students have submitted over 100 proposals for external funding. It is critical that the Research Administrator know your plans well in advance of the deadline so that she can schedule the resources needed to ensure that your proposal is complete, accurate, and submitted on time.
One of the questions most frequently asked of the Research Administrator is: "What's the last possible day/hour/minute I can get the proposal to you and have it go out on time?" There is rarely a simple or correct answer to this question; usually the truth is, "It depends." If you are collaborating with another school at UVA or another institution of higher education or any outside agency, it complicates or lengthens the time needed to pull together a final proposal and get it signed and submitted. The Office of Sponsored Programs will not approve collaborative proposals without a clear indication of the collaborating party's willingness to participate in the project as we have described it.
Forward to Develop Narrative, Design, etc.