The Research Funding Toolkit : How to Plan and Write Successful Grant Applications

Jacqueline Aldridge

ISBN 10: 0857029681 / ISBN 13: 9780857029683

Published by SAGE Publishing Ltd, 2012

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Research Funding Toolkit : How to Plan and Write Successful Grant Applications
• Publisher: SAGE Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857029681
• ISBN 13: 9780857029683
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 170H x 13D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 399 grams

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Synopsis

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.

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.