Funding Insight

ViewFrom the archive: On building a track record

Evergreen advice on how to grow mighty oaks from tiny acorns

ViewFrom the archive: Rallying to fight ovarian cancer

The US specialist funder whose main programme is researcher-led and open to international applications

ViewA peek inside a funding panel

What really goes on when your application is discussed?

ViewOur winning proposal: Breaking down lump-sum funding

EU looks ahead to lump sum funding rollout, as pilot scheme participants describe their experiences

ViewStepping up: Managing collaborations

The second of two articles about taking on responsibilities as an early career academic

ViewStepping up: Supervising PhD students

The first of two articles about taking on responsibilities as an early career academic

ViewFrom the archive: I got published in Nature as a PhD student

How good fortune and determination combined to unlock a career goal for one young researcher

ViewFrom the archive: Embo’s short and sweet fellowships

Applicants must address exchange of skills in their bids

ViewNHMRC reviewer: ‘No one wants a wall of text’

An experienced peer reviewer on making proposals shine and standards of indigenous health research

ViewOpportunity profile: Swiss movement

Bids to Switzerland’s Ambizione early-career fellowship scheme should live up to its name

ViewOpportunity profile: Live-in history for young scholars

Residential fellowships in Germany offer career-starting opportunities for junior researchers focused on European history

ViewOpportunity profile: Polish national academy goes global

Poland’s top research institution will host 15 international fellows for two-year projects

ViewFrom the archive: The fine art of a Smithsonian application

Fulfilling the institution’s criteria in the limited space provided is essential for fellowship success

ViewOpportunity profile: Social science crosses borders

Open Research Area call involves UK, France, Germany and Canada, with Japan an additional partner

ViewMy winning proposal: ‘One day we will have a CRC’

The successful Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre bid took years and overcame initial rejection

ViewRead all about it

What to pay attention to when consulting call documentation

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

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

ViewOpportunity profile: Pan-African scheme picks future leaders

African Academy of Sciences encourages continental collaboration in five-year projects that address development priorities

ViewPublishing a first monograph: from proposal to print

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

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: Migrating scholarship to the global south

Canada’s IDRC is funding research-chair positions on forced displacement in Africa and the Middle East

ViewOpportunity profile: UKRI breaks the ice in Canada

Joint UK-Canada call offers rare opportunity to work with Inuit communities hit by climate change

ViewMy winning proposal: Seeing astronomy up close

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

ViewFrom the archive: IP addressed

Why all researchers need to know the basics of intellectual property

ViewMy winning proposal: Where violence is interrogated

The specialist funder perfect for pilot studies related to human aggression