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.

About the Author

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.

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