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Obtaining Funding
Take every step possible to secure adequate funding for research.
Arrangements for funding visiting researchers and scholars
vary greatly. Often the scholar's home institution pays a
regular salary while the scholar is on sabbatical. Occasionally,
scholars come to the United States using their own funds.
Some foundations and organizations provide grants to support
scholarly research in the arts, sciences, humanities, and
health-related fields. Although competition is intense, foreign
nationals as well as U.S. citizens are often eligible to apply.
Grant proposals are generally reviewed by a committee of people
active in the field, who are selected by the donor organization.
Usually the grant is for a specific amount and supports research
at a particular facility or center.
Many grant applications specify that you present not only
a research plan, but also an agreement with a research institution
before they will fund a grant. It is your responsibility to
find an institution that will agree to provide research facilities,
employ you, and monitor grant expenditures if you are awarded
a grant.
If you do receive a grant, determine whether the grant is
awarded to you as an individual, or to the institution, which
then agrees to employ you with the funds from the grant. If
you leave before the grant is completed and the grant is to
the institution, it will remain with the institution.
Perhaps the ideal situation is to find an academic department
in the United States with a research grant allowing employment
of additional researchers. Usually such arrangements arise
through personal correspondence between the people involved.
There is no central source for information of this type.
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