Jacqueline Aldridge, Andrew M Derrington

The Research Funding Toolkit (eBook, PDF)

How to Plan and Write Successful Grant Applications

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Writing high quality grant applications is easier when you know how research funding agencies work and how your proposal is treated in the decision-making process. The Research Funding Toolkit provides this knowledge and teaches you the necessary skills to write high quality grant applications.

A complex set of factors determine whether research projects win grants. This handbook helps you understand these factors and then face and overcome your personal barriers to research grant success. The guidance also extends to real-world challenges of grant-writing, such as obtaining the right feedback, dealing effectively with your employer and partner institutions, and making multiple applications efficiently.

There are many sources that will tell you what a fundable research grant application looks like. Very few help you learn the skills you need to write one. The Toolkit fills this gap with detailed advice on creating and testing applications that are readable, understandable and convincing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446268025
• Artikelnr.: 39994125

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Aldridge is a research administrator who has extensive experience in helping academic colleagues develop fundable research grant applications. Andrew Derrington is Executive Pro Vice Chancellor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool and has lectured and researched in Psychology at the Universities of Sussex, Newcastle, Nottingham and Kent. His research studies how the brain processes visual information.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
How to Be a Fundable Researcher
How to Find Funding
How to Get Good Advice
How to Plan Your Applications
How Funding Agencies Make Decisions
How to Get the Best from Your Employer
How to Say What Needs to Be Said in the Case for Support
How to Exploit the Application Template
How to Convince Decision-Makers: Arguments and Evidence
How to Write for Funding Agencies: Language and Style
How to Test Your Draft Applications
How to Assemble Your Budget
How to Put Together Collaborative Projects
Appendix 1: How to Run 'Toolkit' Workshops
Appendix 2: The Application Template Overview
Appendix 3: The Funded Applications: More Information

Rezensionen

This comprehensive book tackles one of the main issues an academic faces today - how to secure funding for research. With Research Council success rates falling and funding in general becoming more competitive this is a book postgraduate students, researchers and the professionals supporting them cannot do without
Dr Louise Bright
University of Glamorgan



I'd certainly have no hesitation in recommending this book to researchers who want to improve their chances of getting funding, and also to new and to experienced research managers. In particular, academics who don't have regular access to research managers (or similar) and to experienced grant getters and givers at their own institution should consider this book essential reading if they entertain serious ambitions about obtaining research funding.
Adam Golberg
Social Science Research Funding