Essential Grant Writing Skills Workshop – December 2020 / January 2021
The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) is calling for applications from active, emerging health-researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa to participate in its sixth Essential Grant Writing Skills Workshop. This fully on-line programme for up to 6 participants will be held over eight 3-hour sessions during the weeks of 14 December 2020 and 4 January 2021.
Workshop aim: The Workshop aim is to enable talented early-career health- and health-related researchers to build skills to develop their own research and fellowship proposals of the quality required to win competitive international, regional and national funding.
What the Workshop will cover:
- Why competitive-proposal writing matters
- Understanding funders’ requirements
- Formulating your compelling research question
- Writing in plain English
- Writing your Letter of Intent / Concept Note / Preliminary proposal
- Key parts of a typical Case for Support / Project Description
- Planning your proposal project plan and budget
- Principles of managing your collaboration and team
- Understanding and practicing peer review
- Preparing for a Fellowship interview.
What the Workshop will not cover:
The workshop will not cover the following: how to manage research ethics approval; how to complete individual funders’ application forms; the details of intellectual property management; practice in research communication. The facilitators will use examples of real funding applications. However, they will not be assisting participants directly with the participants’ own specific proposals.
For more information visit https://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/essential-grant-writing-skills-workshop-december-2020-january-2021
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