The Research Funding Toolkit

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

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 'The authors of The Research Funding Toolkit, guide the reader through constructing a grant application step by step, and succeed in providing a very useful tool for success in the research world. Although writing an application is often a daunting and dreaded task, this book is neither boring nor uninspiring: every page is clear and enjoyable, and includes a broad range of examples included from across many disciplines. Thirty-six examples are extracted from eight actual funded applications, covering a diverse selection of funding agencies in several countries. This book is a must-have for every researcher, whether junior or senior, and should be required reading for every member of a department. This book will allow readers to organize a workshop with research groups, with easy to follow steps exercises that Aldridge and Derrington suggest. The result will surely be an interesting and much-improved research proposal that will have high chances of obtaining that next grant' -- Simone Belli