PhDfinally90

Hi everyone, I thought we could band together to discuss applications for post-doctoral funding. I am applying to the CIHR, Banting, and FRQS. Anyone else really struggling with the 3500 character limit for the CIHR proposal that includes references and spaces??? Any help/guidance on how to handle this would be much appreciated!

Ranked WAY lower than last year... Lost points for social mobilization.. WHAT

Waiting for FRQSC!

Hi everyone, Hope you don't mind me posting here. I am a final year PhD student gearing up to apply to the SSHRC post-doc this September. I have a few questions regarding a post-doc position and the application process, if you wouldn't mind sharing some thoughts! A bit of background: I am very interested in one specific PI and have reached out to him to express interest. He said that because I don't have experience in the methodology he primarily uses in his lab, he cannot fund me from his grant, but would be happy to host me and work with me on a funding proposal that is more in line with my experience. My questions: - Would it be crazy if I asked him if I could work with ongoing projects in his lab to gain experience in this methodology first? It's the kind I want to build my future career on and is the reason I am doing a post-doc at all. Then, in my second year, I could do a project as the first author. Is this okay or are we expected to be first-author on our projects in a post-doc? - Another issue is that I am not able to move to this city to do the post-doc (for familial reasons). How crazy would it be if I asked him the above -- esp for the first year, since I will only be helping out? For the second year, I can find a co-supervisor here along with a site to run my research at. Any thoughts on this way of doing it? The thing is -- I really connect with this PIs research and I desperately want to learn from it/him. I am hindered by my lack of experience in that methodology and my inability to move. But I am trying to make it work somehow. Any thoughts? Thanks so much!

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