If your grant application is to have a chance of success, then you must build the strongest possible connection between your text and its readers. Your colleagues and assessors will not only judge your work by the quality of your ideas; they will be swayed by how you tell the story.

This workshop aims to build the skills of researchers as persuasive communicators in their writing to improve the quality of their applications and make them stand out within the highly competitive field of research grant funding.

We offer the workshop in two formats.

In the personalised version of the workshop, participants submit a short sample of their own draft application content. We then prepare tailored exercises around participants' drafts for discussion, feedback, and development during the workshop.

In the standard version of the workshop, we don’t work on participants’ own texts.

Across both formats, participants will have access to winning grants from clients we have previously worked with across a number of ARC and NHMRC funding schemes. The workshops teach high-level writing methods and tools that can be applied across all types of proposals.

The workshop is delivered in-house as either a full-day event or across two half-days.