「KAKEN塾」がスタートしました。
2023/07/04
English below.
科学研究費助成事業の採択率向上のため、学内教員を対象にした研修会「KAKEN塾」がスタートしました。
主に若手研究者を対象に科学研究費(科研費)の応募と採択率を高めるため、武庫川女子大学研究開発支援室がはじめた研修会で、2024年度科研費の応募期間(今年7月中旬~9月中旬)に合わせ、中央キャンパスで開催されます。研修会では、ベテラン研究者の指導や助言を受けて科研費応募申請書を完成させます。
初回は6月17日、「科研費獲得のために必要なアレコレ」をテーマに開かれ、はじめに、松井徳光研究開発支援室長(食物栄養科学部教授)が「KAKEN塾を通して採択率を上げることで、研究力を向上させていきましょう」とあいさつ。その後、河合優年副学長(教育研究所長)が登壇し、研究者としての倫理、科研費獲得に向けて心得るべきポイントなどについて解説しました。その中では、「専門分野外の研究者にも分かる申請書の作成に心がけること」、「うどんを食べるときのように、すっと飲み込める説明が重要」などといったポイントを挙げました。
また、グループワークで、各自の研究内容を受講生同士で共有することで、人に伝えるためにどうすべきか、具体的な方法を学びました。
受講生からは、「指導が具体的で分かりやすく、申請書作成のうえでヒントがたくさんあった。グループワークを通して、自分の考えを改めてまとめることができた」などと声が聞かれ、好評でした。
「KAKEN塾」は今後、8月にかけて、「他分野の研究者に研究計画を説明する ワークショップ」、「応募申請書を完成させる 助言と添削」、「応募申請書をブラッシュアップ 助言と添削」などのテーマで行われます。
武庫川女子大学の2022年度の科学研究費助成事業の採択件数は、新規採択を含め計81件で、全国の女子大学の中で第5位でした。
"KAKEN Juku," a training session for faculty members on campus, has started in order to improve the acceptance rate of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN).
The workshop was launched by the Research Development Support Office of Mukogawa Women's University to increase the application and acceptance rate of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN), mainly for young researchers. The workshop will be held on the Main Campus during the application period for the FY2024 KAKEN (mid-July to mid-September of this year). In the workshop, participants will receive guidance and advice from experienced researchers to complete their Grant-in-Aid application forms.
The first session will be held on June 17 under the theme of "What you need to know to secure a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research." At the beginning of the session, Dr. Tokumitsu Matsui, Director of the Research Development Support Office (Professor, Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences), will address the participants, "Let's improve our research capabilities by boosting our acceptance rate through the KAKEN Juku.” Then, Vice President Masatoshi Kawai (Director of the Institute of Education) took the podium and explained about ethics as a researcher and key points to keep in mind in order to obtain a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Among the topics he covered were the importance of preparing an application that can be understood by researchers outside of your field of expertise, and the importance of providing an explanation that can be swallowed as easily as eating udon noodles.
In group work, students shared their own research with each other and learned specific methods for communicating their research to others.
Participants commented “I thought that the guidance was concrete and easy to understand, and provided many pointers for application writing. Through group work, I was able to summarize my thoughts and ideas again," were some of the comments received.
KAKEN Juku" will continue through August with themes such as "Workshop on Explaining Your Research Plan to Researchers in Other Fields," "Advice and Corrections for Completing Application Forms," and "Advice and Corrections for Brushing Up Your Application Forms.”
Mukogawa Women's University had 81 new Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research projects selected in FY2022, ranking fifth among women's universities in Japan.