Suitability
Research staff from science, engineering and medical disciplines in
their first or second post-doctoral post, and academic staff with little
experience of developing funding submissions. If no further dates are
available please register your interest by contacting sdduri@leeds.ac.uk
and you will be added to a waiting list, further dates will be arranged
on a demand driven basis.
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Description
Aims of the course
Allow you to recognise the wide range of potential sources of research
funding that exist.
Enable you to develop your own strategy for identifying and approaching
relevant funding bodies.
Introduce the proposal cycle, so that you are able to explain the
sequence of steps involved in research funding.
Help you to recognise the elements of a successful proposal.
Prepare you to list a range of general features that you will
incorporate in your first proposal.
Outcomes and benefits
This workshop will help you to recognise the wide range of potential
sources of research funding that exist, and provide the basic
information that will enable you to develop your own strategy for
identifying and approaching relevant funding bodies. The proposal cycle,
from call through to the award of funding, will be reviewed, because an
understanding of how the assessment process works will help you to write
a better proposal. The characteristics of a successful proposal will be
addressed, and by the end of the workshop you will be able to list a
range of general features that you will incorporate in your first
proposal.
Format of the session
The workshop involves a combination of instruction, discussion and
interactive group work.
Prerequisites
Participants will be asked to bring along a copy of a successful grant
proposal from their field (possibly the one for the project on which you
are employed).
Tutor
Dr Elizabeth Berry is Director of Elizabeth Berry Ltd and an Associate
Lecturer with the Open University. She consults on medical imaging
research and presents popular workshops on research-related topics. She
was formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds, where her
grant portfolio in the period 1999-2004 was £1.7m in size, and included
awards as principal investigator from EPSRC, the NHS R&D Programme and
the European Union. She is familiar with the funding process as
reviewer: she has reviewed for the EC in Brussels, chaired panels for
EPSRC and was on the programme committee for a Department of Health
Programme. Her CV includes 60+ journal articles and 70+ conference
papers/abstracts in the area of medical imaging. She has two text books
published by Taylor and Francis: A Practical Approach to Medical Image
Processing and Fundamentals of MRI: An Interactive Learning Approach.
Feedback from previous participants
“I now have a greater understanding of the processes of writing a
proposal, which will help a great deal when I start writing my grant
application.”
Researcher in Mechanical Engineering.
“I found it really useful to see a range of proposals that had been
funded.”
Researcher in School of Medicine.
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