Factors Associating to External Research Funding Applications of Academic Researchers Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

The Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University has established strategic objectives in building high quality research. Getting research funding from external sources is a measure of competitive success. In 2017-2019, the amount of external research funding tended to decline. This research studied factors associating with external research funding applications of academic researchers in the Faculty of Medicine Khon Kaen

University. Therefore, research was conducted by using quantitative research methodology by Questionnaire. The participants were 50 academic researchers in the Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. The 50 participants were chosen using Taro Yamane calculation and Stratified Random Sampling with limited time. Data distribution was analyzed by Uni-variate analysis and describes the characteristics of the sample by descriptive statistics. The distribution of dependent variables in each subgroup of independent variables was determined by two-variable relationship analysis with chi squared statistics to provide suggestions for development. The results showed that factors affecting external research funding applications of academic researchers are age, work experience, education and teaching load at a statistically significant difference of 0.05. The Contingency Coefficients are 0.433, 0.433, 0.407, and 0.515 respectively.