Grants-in-Aid Research Fund (kakenhi)

As a researcher at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto, it is our duty to apply for the JSPS grants-in-aid for scientific research or in Japanese, kakenhi. The application is very long and a bit complicated. We must be detailed and succinct when we apply and follow directions to the T. This is my thought anyway. All the applications are scored by a team of reviewers and your idea is accepted or rejected based on these scores. I applied once for the start-up funding and was rejected. My score was not bad, but just not high enough to make it. I take this as a learning experience.

For this fund I will be more descript and have better writing and a better plan. With the help of some colleagues, I am getting my research ideas together. I want to continue with my research in Cambodia, but I also want to include research in all of Indochina to make a compact and succinct study which no one else has done. For example, I want to create an Internet based method of assessing English communication ability and give results in numeric form.