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Building a Budget – Financial Basics for Research Proposals

During this webinar, Laura Sheehan, Manager of Research Administration for the Department of Family Medicine at UCLA DGSOM, will review the basics of how to create a budget that will meet the needs of your research proposal while remaining within the confines of sponsor restrictions. Areas of discussion will include reviewing sponsor guidelines, best practices for quantifying research team member effort, how a project’s timeline, scope, and scale will affect the budget, how to create a customized excel template to help build your budget, understanding overhead and other common budget elements, and how to craft a comprehensive budget justification.

The objectives of the webinar include:

1. Identifying and describing common elements of a research budget
2. Dissecting sponsor guidelines to glean important information needed to create an strong budget proposal
3. Determining how project needs might affect specific budget line items
4. Describing best practices for crafting a budget justification

Mar 9, 2023 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)