ISBM 2026 WEBINAR SERIES – Rejections as Redirections: Strategies and Hacks of Grant Writing for Early Career Researchers

ISBM 2026 WEBINAR SERIES – Rejections as Redirections: Strategies and Hacks of Grant Writing for Early Career Researchers

DR NELSON YEUNG

For early career researchers, the path to sustainable funding is rarely linear. It requires a shift from viewing grant writing as a series of isolated events to seeing it as an integrated ecosystem of research, networking, and professional development. The presentation will deconstruct the journey after rejections, emphasizing the importance of reflecting on reviewers’ comments and the strategic “recycling” of proposal components into peer-reviewed publications or pilot study frameworks. One of the strategies is the pursuit of smaller, internal awards to serve as vital proof-of-concept markers that strengthen future extramural applications. The presentation will also talk about other strategies for the early career researcher journey, e.g., strategic networking, intellectual archive, and calendar mastery. Participants will gain actionable tips for building a resilient research portfolio where every submission—regardless of the immediate outcome—contributes to long-term career growth.

Biography:

Professor Nelson Yeung is an associate professor at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care,
the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Social and Health Psychology at the University of Houston as a trained health psychologist in 2015. Through a stress and coping perspective, Professor Yeung is particularly interested in understanding of the facilitating factors and potential mechanisms associated with adjustment outcomes (e.g., posttraumatic stress, posttraumatic growth) among a spectrum of trauma-exposed populations (e.g., cancer survivors and their caregivers, healthcare workers coping with COVID-19 and patients’ traumas, bereaved individuals, young people exposed to natural disasters, etc.). His projects have been supported by extramural funding as a principal investigator (e.g., Health and Medical Research Fund by the Health Bureau, Early Career Scheme by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong) and a co-investigator (e.g., Institutional Development Scheme of the Collaborative Research Grant of the University Grants Committee).

Any Questions? Contact Allison Marziliano on amarzilian@northwell.edu

Register via QR code: ISBM WEBINAR 13 – YEUNG