The grant-writer's toolkit and the grants factory.

The grant-writing workshop is designed to help you to develop a set of tools, a toolkit, to design, write and test the case for support of a research grant application.

The workshop can be taken on its own, or as part of a series that form the grants factory.

It is designed for applications to UK funding agencies, such as a research councils, in which the case for support for a £300,000 application would be about 6 pages long, however most of the principles will apply to grants written for other funding agencies, even those in the US, which can be tens of pages long.

It is assumed that you know how to design a research project that will answer questions in your research field, although it offers some ideas about how to refine a project in order to make it fundable.

Structure of the Workshop

There are five parts to the workshop.
1. A presentation that explains the job that the case for support has to perform.
2. An exercise to demonstrate the communication requirements of the case for support.
3. A presentation that develops a structure for the ideal, generic case for support.
4. Exercises to examine the tness for purpose of some examples of successful research proposals.
5. A presentation about how to begin writing your case for support.