Grant Writing Tips for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars

Dr. Elizabeth Shaunessy-Dedrick

Dr. Shaunessy-Dedrick is a professor in the Exceptional Student Education Program and the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Education, USF.  Dr. Shaunessy-Dedrick received her BA in English from the University of Miami, a Master of Arts in English from Florida State University, and a PhD in Special Education with an emphasis in Gifted Education from The University of Southern Mississippi. At USF, she teaches in the fully-online Gifted Education program, which offers courses leading to the Florida Endorsement in Gifted Education and a master's degree in Gifted Education, and in the Ed.D. in Educational Program Development.

Her research interests include underrepresented groups of gifted children and social-emotional needs of International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement students. She was the primary investigator on a Javits Gifted Education Award, “Recognizing Extraordinary Accomplishments among Children (REACH)” and was the co-PI (with colleague Shannon Suldo, Ph.D.) on an Institute for Education Sciences award to study “Intrapersonal Factors Associated with Academic Success among High School Students in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate (AP-IB) Programs.”

Dr. Michael Sherry

Dr. Sherry holds a BA from Princeton University, and an MA and PhD from Michigan State University. Before joining the USF faculty in 2015, he taught English teachers in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Dr. Sherry began his teaching career as a middle and high school literature and drama teacher in New Jersey and has also taught in Europe. Dr. Sherry teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in classroom communication, English teaching methods, and writing pedagogies. He specializes in developing professional practices through the use of tools like reflective writing, digital video, and teacher portfolios.

Dr. Sherry’s research addresses how teacher response during whole-class discussions and to student writing can enable and constrain participation, especially from students who are often marginalized by traditional classroom discourse practices. His research has appeared in Research in the Teaching of English, American Educational Research Journal, English Education, and Teachers College Record. His current work includes the Student Writing Archive Project, an online database of student writing with teacher feedback accompanied by instructional materials and interview commentary from elementary, middle, and high school teachers in diverse linguistic/geographic regions across the U.S.

Dr. Ross DuBose

Dr. Ross DuBose leads the office of research on the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus. He earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of  Florida and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his research topic was the intracellular trafficking of P2Y receptors. Before joining USF, he spent a decade at Research Square, a company that provides researchers and journals with publication-related services. He now leverages these skills to help researchers elevate funding proposals and expand the research enterprise at USF.