Group training in writing research grant applications

support for your researcher development programme or research department

Online, trainer-led

Course material

Videos, exercises and other learning material are hosted on our Moodle site. Alternatively, we can upload it to your learning management system.

Live video sessions

Interactive sessions led by an experienced trainer include discussions in small groups using Zoom’s breakout rooms and individual and small group exercises. Teams or similar conferencing software is also possible.

Duration

Options:

Two Zoom sessions, of 90 minutes each, ideally a week apart with self-paced learning before each Zoom session.
A whole-day Zoom session of six hours plus morning, lunch and afternoon breaks.

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In-person, trainer-led

Course material

Videos, exercises and other learning material are hosted on our Moodle site. Alternatively, we can upload it to your learning management system.

Workshop at your organisation

An interactive workshop led by an experienced trainer includes slide presentations of the material, discussions and exercises in small groups and individual exercises.

Duration

A whole-day workshop of six hours plus morning, lunch and afternoon breaks.

The availability of this training option depends on travel restrictions and social-distancing measures.

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Online, self-paced learning

Course material

Videos, exercises and other learning material are hosted on our Moodle site. Alternatively, we can upload it to your learning management system.

Group discussions

A forum is available on the Moodle site, so your group of researchers can discuss the course material with each other. Your organisation can moderate the forum, or you can make your own arrangements for your researchers to discuss the course material.

Duration

The online learning material is available for eight weeks.

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What your researchers learn

What researcher funders want
How the peer review process works
What happens at a funding committee meeting
How to plan a research grants campaign
How to plan an application, budget and resources
The structure of research grant applications
The language and style of English needed in research grant applications
How to structure their writing
Some of the common problems that can arise during a research project that has been funded
Some possible strategies to cope when research grant applications are not funded

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Course content

Add a Grants Clinic to your training package

A grants clinic gives your researchers the opportunity to get individual advice and feedback on their research grant applications and the funding process.

Follow up our training on writing research grant applications with a grants clinic to maximise the impact of our training.

Grants clinic options

Audience

We train researchers at all stages of their careers

Our training is especially suited to people who have little or no knowledge of the research grant funding process (such as final year PhD students, post-doctoral research assistants and early career research fellows and lecturers) who want to understand the funding process and expect to write research grants in the future.

Customisation

Design your own training package

You can choose the content and delivery method that suit your researchers.

Our training has four main parts:

Research funders and the funding process
Planning and budgets
How to write a research grant application
Dealing with success and failure

If you only want training on some of these parts or you have particular delivery or other needs, please get in touch to discuss the options.

What participants say about our training

I really liked how every step of the grant writing process was broken down into simple, easy to understand sections. I knew very little about the funding landscape in academia going in, but now feel ready to write my first research grant application.

Participant, UK

It was informative and exciting. I have learned a lot of information from this course.

Participant, UK

Overall, a great course! Would highly recommend to any new early career researchers looking into writing their first grant proposals.

Participant, UK

Find out more

If you’d like to book training or a grants clinic for your organisation, or for yourself, or want a research grant application or research paper edited, please get in touch.

We are happy to answer any questions about our training, grants clinics, editing or consultancy, including customisations.

You can use our contact form or email us:

info@catalystscienceediting.com

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