CPDE provides a range of services to help researchers with grant submissions, including:
- Developing evaluation / methodological study aims, e.g., for implementation studies, qualitative and mixed methods study designs
- Assisting with writing research strategy and methods sections
- Creating logic models and a theory of change
- Evaluation plans mapped to your goals and objectives
- Identifying appropriate theoretical or conceptual frameworks related to your aims, e.g., implementation science frameworks, behavior change models, socio-ecological models
- Power analysis
- Sampling and recruitment procedures
- Assistance with data security and management plans
The first consultation is free. Depending on your needs and timeline, we will discuss creating a short scope of work and budget for grant-related services.
Considerations when requesting CPDE support with a grant application:
- Whenever possible, plan ahead! It takes 6-8 weeks to develop a high-quality methods / evaluation section aligned to grant aims given that we fit requests around our existing project workloads.
- For applications requiring logic models, evaluation plans, draft instruments, and/or detailed sampling and data collection procedures, a minimum of 6 weeks lead time is required for our support.
- Please be prepared to share early versions of your proposed intervention / program including number of sites, key activities, target population / participants, and desired outcomes to help us develop required attachments. We will work with you to identify your overarching theory of change and provide other recommendations to make a strong submission.
- Requests made within 3 weeks of the grant deadline will be limited to a brief consultation, high-level budget estimate and minimal to no input on study design or methodological approach.
- Budget estimates and letters of support will be provided only when CPDE determines that it will have the expertise and staffing capacity to take on the project if awarded.