The Research Funding Toolkit (paperback)

Making high-quality grant applications is easier when you know how research funding agencies work and how your proposal is used in the decision-making process. The Research Funding Toolkit provides this knowledge and offers a range of practical techniques to help you succeed in tough research funding competitions.
A complex set of factors determine whether research projects win grants.

This Handbook helps you navigate these issues and identify your personal challenges to research grant success.
The guidance also extends to the real-world challenges of grant-writing such as:
- Obtaining the right feedback
- Dealing effectively with your employer and partner institutions
- Making multiple applications as efficiently as possible

There are many sources that will tell you what a fundable research grant application looks like. Very few offer a step-by-step guide to writing one. The Toolkit fills this gap with detailed advice on creating applications that are easy to read, easy to understand and convincing.

. 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