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Grant Writing for Quantitative Economics, Social Sciences, and Public Health

Course Information

The course "Grant Writing for Quantitative Economics, Social Sciences, and Public Health" is designed to equip students with essential skills for writing competitive research proposals with quantitative methods in economics, sociology, political science, public health, and epidemiology.

Course Objectives

• Equip students with essential skills for writing competitive research proposals with quantitative methods in economics, sociology, political science, public health, and epidemiology
• Provide an interdisciplinary approach to grant writing, highlighting credible quantitative research designs and improving proposed research designs
• Facilitate the generation and refinement of research ideas, ensuring they align with funding priorities and academic standards
• Improve students' skills in presenting and defending their research proposals through iterative feedback sessions including peer feedback
• Teach how to highlight the feasibility and significance of their research given data limitations and research design

Course Content

In this research proposals and grant writing course for quantitative social sciences, epidemiology, and public health, students get prepared to write research proposals and grants including idea generation and compelling grant writing. This course mainly focuses on research designs and helps in selecting and developing the idea into a competitive proposal. The focus is on research proposals for PhD studies, as well as on applications for Ambizione and Postdoc.Mobility fellowships from the Swiss National Science foundation and grants from the Forschungsfonds at the University of Basel for excellent young researchers.

Target Audience

• Postdoc or PhD student in a quantitative field broadly related to human behavior, such as economics, social sciences, psychology, humanities, public health, epidemiology, nursing sciences, sociology
• Advanced master student with the goal of doing a PhD in such fields
• PhD students from other fields who do empirical research are welcome to attend, but may not benefit as much

Admission Requirements

• Postdoc or PhD student in a quantitative field broadly related to human behavior, such as economics, social sciences, psychology, humanities, public health, epidemiology, nursing sciences, sociology
• Advanced master student with the goal of doing a PhD in such fields

Course Format

• Lectures on funding possibilities, idea selection and development, as well as essentials of credible quantitative research designs
• Presentations of idea and research design, outline of full funding proposal
• Feedback sessions in the plenum

Instructor

• Professor Armando Meier, PhD, is a Professor of Health Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics
• His interdisciplinary research in health economics touches on labor economics, health policy, and behavioral science using large data sets and experiments

Workload

• Hours of preparatory work / post workshop work: >60 hours, students need to present twice
• Hours of work in presence: 3 workshop days
• Course attendance: 28h
• Hours of preparatory work: 62h

Special Features

• Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot
• All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis
• Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail
• Full course attendance is mandatory
• Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee

Location

• Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Peter Merian-Weg 6, 4052 Basel
• Seminarraum S17 (HG)

Dates

• Dienstag, 10. Februar 2026, 09:15 Uhr bis 16:30 Uhr
• Mittwoch, 15. April 2026, 09:15 Uhr bis 17:15 Uhr
• Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2026, 09:15 Uhr bis 17:15 Uhr

Registration

• Anmeldebeginn: 21.01.2026, 09:00 Uhr
• Anmeldeschluss: 03.02.2026, 12:00 Uhr

Costs

• This course is free of charge and for doctoral candidates and postdocs of the University of Basel in a quantitative field broadly related to human behavior, such as economics, social sciences, psychology, humanities, public health, epidemiology, nursing sciences, sociology (min. 6, max. 13 participants)

Credits

• 3 ECTS