Yesterday I enjoyed delivering my online 'Grant Writing as Storytelling' workshop to folks at the Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities at the University of Liverpool as part of their wider workshop on re-submitting unsuccessful grant proposals.

It is always more complicated to present yourself effectively as a researcher. Narrative CVs are an improvement from cold hard metrics, but they can be difficult to navigate. Very useful initiative and toolkit from my fellow @yai.ie members. Well done👏🏻
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In the newsletter I'm sending out to my subscribers tomorrow, I outline common mistakes related to the issue of communicating leadership in grant proposals, and suggest how researchers can avoid these.

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The ERC has made public the panel members who feature in the 2025 ERC Starting Grant peer review process: erc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

Considering applying to multiple research grants? I've just scheduled a newsletter to be sent to my subscribers tomorrow which offers some advice for how you can best navigate this issue.

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With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

There are plenty of excellent resources on the official guidelines & requirements of ERC grants.

But it can sometimes feel difficult to know how to bridge this information with your individual grant idea.

My free online webinar gives some key advice on translating your idea into an ERC proposal.

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

Many grants now include a narrative CV as part of their applications.

A narrative CV forces you to tell a concise story about your career, but most of us have trouble knowing how to summarise our career trajectory because it’s so often a very complicated story!

Many researchers talk about the challenge of compressing a large body of literature into a limited word count when writing the state-of-the-art section of their #research #grant proposal.

However, I very rarely come across a proposal that hasn’t included enough literature in its s-o-a section.

The Austrian Research Agency publishes a list of #ERC applications that you can find online. If you are applying, this can be helpful. If you have received a grant, I would urge you to share yours too:

www.ffg.at/europa/heu/e...

Research grants typically require writing about yourself as part of the application. Most researchers I work with struggle with this & many worry about coming across as arrogant. This Research Whisperer blog offers some excellent tips

researchwhisperer.org/2023/11/14/w... #AcademicSky #Acwri

Are you keen to get started on preparing a research grant application for 2024?

This webinar offers a good place to start thinking about how you can best communicate your research idea to reviewers: outstandingresearchgrants.com/webinar-gran... #AcademicSky #Acwri

The #ERC has released the statistics from this week's Starting Grant Call.

3,474 total applications, 1,029 from Social Sciences & Humanities, nearly 40% of applications from women.

Good luck to all applicants! #ERCStG #AcademicSky #Acwri

erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Hi fellow bskyers! I'm starting an account here hoping to connect with old and new researcher colleagues and friends (including old Twitter connections). If you don't know me, I'm a research grant consultant who offers training & writing support for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.