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Writing Winning Funding Applications Efficiently: An Accelerated Training Session using a Systematic 10-Step and 10-Sentence Approach

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Target Audience: Faculty of Business and Law Academics and Researchers seeking a more strategic, efficient, and practical approach to winning research funding

Event Content:

This two-hour accelerated training session will teach you a systematic approach to research grant-writing that has helped dozens of academics secure continuous funding throughout their research careers and that is informed by the presenter’s participation in hundreds of externally funded grant applications and expert evaluation for several major UK funders. This systematic approach to grant writing makes otherwise time-consuming and laborious research grant applications easier to write and more likely to be successful; it includes three elements:

  1. an effective strategy to maximise success and reduce wasted effort in grant writing.
  2. specifics on how applications are being assessed to be clear on how to present an argument for funding.
  3. a step-by-step formula for outlining and structuring our application to make effective grant applications that are easy to write and comprehend

This accelerated training session consists of presentations and exercises to teach participants the three elements of a systematic approach to grant writing.

1. The presenter will explain how the uncertainty of funding decisions can be ameliorated by offering an effective strategy to maximise success and reduce wasted effort.

2. The presenter will analyse how funding decisions are made to provide a clear guide on how to present an argument for funding.

3. The training will include writing exercises to help participants follow this step-by-step recipe for producing effective grant applications

The presenter explains how the approach is based on real-world experience of applying for and awarding research grants, so that participants can use the accelerated training to develop a funding strategy tailored to their own experience and ambitions.

 

Expectations from attendees:

Pre-event: while this session will benefit all Business and Law Academics and Researchers, participants will be advantaged if they come with notes on the following five prompts:

 

  1. What their personal motivations are for applying for research funding (e.g., seeking replacement teaching to focus on research, seeking research assistance or non-staff research expenses, seeking continued employment for postdocs, building their case for promotion, building their professional network, securing independence as a researcher, etc.).
  2. What their project aims to achieve overall and an idea of the big picture goal to which their project will contribute.
  3. A list of three of their achievements that used the research approach or approaches that they are going to use in the project, noting the publications and other outputs that resulted from each achievement.
  4. Evidence that a funder(s) is interested in projects with aims like theirs. The evidence should include possibly statements from the funder’s published strategy, projects that they funded or research that they funded that leads up to your project.
  5. Evidence that the funder supports projects that use the methods that they propose to use. If they do, they will have funded projects that use similar methods and participants can note these methods in funded abstracts or titles from funded awards.


Post-event: Participants will be provided with a writing guide and slides following the presentation so that they can use this accelerated training as a springboard to develop a funding strategy and a funding application tailored to their own experience and ambitions.

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Speakers
  • Dr Dan Mullins