Your budget list might look like this:

 I’m going to do 10 interviews in Kuala Lumpur; 10 interviews in

Singapore; 10 interviews in Jakarta by me.
 I’ll need teaching release for three months for fieldwork.
 I’ll need Flights to KL, Singapore, Jakarta and back to Melbourne.
 I’ll need Accommodation for a month in each place, plus per diem.
 The transcription service will transcribe the 30 interviews.
 I’ll analysis the transcribed results. (No teaching release required –
I’ll do it in my meagre research time allowance.)
 I’ll need a Thingatron X32C to do the trials.
 Thing Inc will need to install the Thingatron. (I wonder how long
that will take.)
 The research assistant will do three trials a month with the
Thingatron.
 I’ll need to hire a research assistant (1 day per week for a year at
Level B1.)
 The research assistant will do the statistical analysis of the
Thingatron results.
 I’ll do the writing up in my research allowance time.

By the end, you should feel like you have thought through the entire
project in detail. You should be able to walk someone else through the
project, so grab a critical friend and read the list to them. If they ask
questions, write down the answers.