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ViewOpportunity profile: With peace in mind

An international funder is striving to move peace research forward

ViewSo you’re new to…USAID

Brushing up on the US development funder’s priorities is job number one before submitting bids

ViewOpportunity profile: A fuel injection for dementia research

Nearly A$5 million is available through the Dementia Australia Research Foundation, largely for junior researchers

ViewMy winning proposal: Chance for junior researchers to think big

Early career researchers can build networks around societal challenges through Europe’s Institutes for Advanced Study

ViewFrom the archive: Big money for the big questions

The John Templeton Foundation is a funder like no other

ViewOpportunity profile: Indian promise

How the India Alliance is angling for ambitious biomedical researchers from overseas

ViewPublishing a first monograph: from proposal to print

The final instalment of a two-part primer for early career academics

ViewMy winning proposal: Redi to commercialise

Keeping up private sector relationships opened doors to winning a government-backed industry fellowship

ViewSo you’re new to…the European Innovation Council

An EIC programme manager explains how to handle the funder’s ‘challenge-driven’ calls

ViewPublishing a first monograph: from thesis to proposal

The first instalment of a two-part primer for early career academics

ViewOpportunity profile: Booster shot for NZ health research

New Zealand’s Health Research Council offers career development awards to sharpen research skills among clinicians

ViewMy winning proposal: Seeing astronomy up close

Enthusiasm and independence are needed to win a postdoctoral fellowship at the European Southern Observatory

ViewMy winning proposal: Where violence is interrogated

The specialist funder perfect for pilot studies related to human aggression

ViewMy winning proposal: American dreams require give and take

Fulbright Australia looks for academic ambassadors to visit the US under its Postdoctoral Scholarship scheme

ViewOpportunity profile: Taking geosciences to new places

Public engagement grants from the European Geosciences Union encourage creative ways to reach audiences

ViewTop PI Barry Marshall: From home inventions to the Nobel prize

A sceptical medical establishment meant Australian gastroenterologist found alternative ways to fund his groundbreaking research

ViewKnow your audience

Why you might be writing funding bids with the wrong readers in mind

ViewMy winning proposal: Engineering an NHMRC proof-of-concept grant

Engineer Tuncay Alan explains how he won a commercialisation grant from Australia’s national medical funder

ViewFrom the archive: Sweetening social research proposals

Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Katharine Knox explains how to prepare a tasty treat for reviewers

ViewOpportunity profile: Seeking independence in Austria

New Austrian Science Fund programme aims to help postdocs from any country find their feet

ViewGetting to grips with EU policy pays off for Horizon Europe bids

Earma 2021: Why most proposals need more than just academic excellence to beat the pack

ViewSo you’re new to… the National Science Foundation

A primer on how the national US funder for non-biomedical science goes about international partnerships

ViewOpportunity profile: Pulling habits out of rats

How the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour sniffs out the best bids

ViewFinding favour with funders through citizen science

Public participation in research projects can win over funding bodies focused on science and society

ViewOpportunity profile: Cross-cutting projects shine for Swiss funder

Velux Stiftung offers project grants in an eclectic range of subjects linked to daylight

ViewThe hard write

Advice on academic writing in times of turmoil

ViewAristotle’s guide to persuasive grantwriting

Christine Black goes back to the fundamentals, finding grantwriting tips from ancient Greece

ViewTop PI Scott O’Neill: The power of philanthropy

How a catalytic Gates Foundation grant sparked a global programme making inroads into tropical diseases

ViewLooking outside academia for a fundable future

Advice on finding avenues to apply research as politicians emphasise entrepreneurship at Australian universities

ViewA rough guide to research project management

Carving out planning time at the start of a research project pays dividends