The impact of funding deadlines on personal workloads, stress and family relationships: a qualitative study of Australian researchers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the impact of applying for funding on personal workloads, stress and family relationships.

Design

Qualitative study of researchers preparing grant proposals.

Setting

Web-based survey on applying for the annual National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant scheme.

Participants

Australian researchers (n=215).

Results

Almost all agreed that preparing their proposals always took top priority over other work (97%) and personal (87%) commitments. Almost all researchers agreed that they became stressed by the workload (93%) and restricted their holidays during the grant writing season (88%). Most researchers agreed that they submitted proposals because chance is involved in being successful (75%), due to performance req

SUBMITTER: Herbert DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3975760 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature