Grant Writing Development

Development support for grant writing complements the support offered by the Research Services Office (RSO) which offers information, advice and guidance for externally-funded research projects.

There are workshops themed around the following areas:

  • The Funding Landscape
  • Internal Processes
  • Development of your Research Idea
  • Support for key elements of your Grant Submission - Impact, Narrative CV's, emedding EDI, Data Management Plans
  • The Craft of Writing a Successful Grant Submission

In addition, a mentoring scheme to support grant development is being launched in the near future. This can support researchers to develop more competitive funding applications by matching with a more experienced mentor with a successful track record of securing grants. To express early interest in being a mentor or mentee contact: researchculture@lancaster.ac.uk

It is expected that the workshops will be of particular interest to Early and Mid-Career Researchers. They will typically run twice in a year.

Grant Writing - upcoming workshops

The following sessions are available to researchers working across all faculties at Lancaster. Many are also available for PGRs.

The sessions are all held within the Inkpath platform, a career and development platform allowing you to view and access opportunities in one place and keep track of your development over time. 

Use the scroll bar on the right hand side to browse all the scheduled sessions. 

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Narrative CVs

Narrative CVs (NCVs) are commonly asked for in grant applications as well as being an excellent tool to be used when career planning and identifying your development needs.

Resources for writing a NCV are shown below:

  • Mentoring contact: This is made up of mentors with expertise in NCV writing that will review and give guidance
  • Many more resources are available through the

Confessions of an ECR- from Draft to Grant: Funding in Academia