Navigating Research Funding with Confidence

Carol Spencely is a Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey. Working across a range of disciplines (Psychology, Health & Social Care and Pharmacy), Pam Denicolo, a Professor Emerita from the University of Reading,  a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has wide-ranging experience both of using a range of research approaches and methods and of teaching how to use them well to a broad range of students and professionals world-wide. She has served on executive boards and committees of national and international learned societies and organisations devoted to research and teaching. She continues to publish widely student support materials, books, and journal articles on research because she remains passionately committed to mentoring and coaching newer researchers and academics.

This book is especially useful for university doctoral colleges training early career researchers.  Granting agencies, industrial sponsor staff was well as new staff involved with university industry research will also benefit from reading.

• Chapter 1: The context for research fundingChapter 2: Research Funders: who you could choose and whyChapter 3: Planning and managing your applicationChapter 4: Stages in the process of submissionChapter 5: Writing each section of the applicationChapter 6: Getting to grips with FinancesChapter 7: Gathering and using feedbackChapter 8: The assessment processesChapter 9: Further steps in the application process: interviewsChapter 10: First steps in a new grantChapter 11: Concluding remarks