Participants are gathering for Professor Emma Crewe (⁦@_Emma_Crewe⁩), ⁦our⁩
Director’s, talk ‘The Principles of Winning Grants’ ⁦@SOAS⁩ ⁦@SOASanthro#research #grants
It teaches you a huge amount about applying for grants when you have the experience of being a grant-maker, as @_Emma_Crewe and the ‘Deepening Democracy’ team do with the P4P Grant-making scheme
@_Emma_Crewe says Imagination is hugely important in winning grants, as are ethics
‘Research Design’: Funders tend to require you to identify a puzzle, your method, and your objective.
So what makes a good design? It needs to be relatable and have a strong narrative at its core, topical, collaborative...
And be sure to treat your grant application like a research process...
Gather intelligence before preparing to write your grant application: What does the guidance say? What do past successful applications look like? Contact the grant-maker directly by email and phone and start conversations with them..
Having conversations with other people - funders, scholars, and organisations - including (especially) in the countries you’re proposing to research - is critical...
Reflect on global south and north relationships and how your project will align with or destabilise issues of unequal power implicit in these; think about whether your purpose should be to develop capacity or provide solidarity.
The best kind of collaborative research is “a genuinely emergent, iterative and democratic process” and entails a long-term relationship where you put yourself in your partners’ shoes to understand their barriers and constraints
Why do projects get turned down? Poor design, poorly articulated methodology, disjuncture between question and method, unconvincing outputs, unequal partnerships (between global north and south)
There’s standing space only in room 103, Brunei Gallery SOAS but come by if you’re around...
Professor @_Emma_Crewe continues: Ambiguity is the enemy of good grant applications
Don’t over-justify the need for your research; it’s usually already well-established.
And don’t get so fatigued by all the work that does into putting together your application and forget to write a strong summary
10 tips for improving your chances of writing a successful grant application, 1-5
10 tips for improving your chances of writing a successful grant application, 6-10
Q: how to include an advisory panel in your application? @_Emma_Crewe says provide details about people and processes, and demonstrate that your panel is composed of ppl who will help help make your project robust and that you’re willing to be challenged by others
How to parse the requirement for ‘impact’? @_Emma_Crewe says it’s a difficult thing to generalise. The key is to remember that impact = some kind of change achieved with non-academics in society. You should ask yourself who you’re going to have impact with (as well as on)
@_Emma_Crewe says monitoring and evaluation can appear to be very formulaic, so think about shaking it up... @GRNPP1 is approaching it through - and experimenting with - historical ethnography
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