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Hi, your apprehension is absolutely reasonable, I am not trying to generalize but I faced a similar experience when I was writing a research paper on the tribal community of the Bhils in Gujrat, India. In conducting research on indigenous communities, first hand communication is an invariable limitation which can be mitigated if you could rope in any experienced and quality translator but it cannot be totally done away with. It could be helpful if you could reach out to any journalist or an anthropologist who have worked around and about your research area.
If you could tell us about the area of your research perhaps we could help you with resources or suggestions for your research. Also, if you are finding it absolutely impossible to work with your supervisor, you could write to the administration of your University/Institute about it, maybe they can allocate another supervisor for you or at least a co-supervisor who can spare time and assist you with your research.
Ah! Strong Application right? Well, the funding application is called strong only if it has some potential to impress the examiners. Think about the probable questions that you might happen to when anyone scans through your application and answer them in your application. Let me say I’m one of the committee members who will decide if you are to be given funding or not. I will probably judge you on the basis of relevance of your proposed research project, its timeline, how many papers you have published in which journal, your academic interests, about yourself, your choice of undertaking a particular study is justified or not, how well you can present it, the way it is written and structured and you know stuff like that. Got an idea? All the luck!!
