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Getting the most out of the ‘Funding
Winning Experience’
AESOP Young Academic Network Roundtable
Friday 17th July, Liverpool
Paul Benneworth, CHEPS, University of Twente
Outline
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The harshness of rejection
Why do proposals get funded?
What can you do to get your proposal funded?
What to do with a proposal that doesn’t get
funded?
The first post-doctoral grant application
• Ph.D. students progress through a ‘culture of
success’
• Publishing is ‘formative’ – review and
improvement
• Funding bids are ‘summative’ – review and
feedback – sometimes…
• How to cope with the issues this raises?
Some disheartening feedback
“The pre-selection committee looked very closely at your
submission. It was an interesting submission, but in our
very heavy competition, it scored in comparison to the
other proposals relatively lower against the evaluation
criterion/ criteria:• Originality and potential contribution to science
– Contribution to theory, methods, design or knowledge
• Research construction and methods
– Defining, and fleshing out the research questions and problem
contextualisation
– Appropriateness of the method given the question asked.”
Why do you want a research project?
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Autonomy and recognition in work sphere
Opportunity to answer interesting question
Input to academic writing
Chance to build networks
Funding to go to conferences
The academic trajectory
Classic model of ‘research projects’
You hit the brick wall…
So where did the proposal come from?
And how to move forward?
1. Use it to apply for some funding to go to an
interesting conference and meet new people
2. Find another body that you can apply to – and
improve on the referee’s comments
3. Turn it into a new journal article and do some
new reading to move it forward
4. Accept that you’ve reached a blind alley and
explore an alternative trajectory.
5. Write a book…