Funding Insight

ViewOpportunity profile: Thinking beyond academia

The New Institute in Hamburg is looking for researchers to forge connections with wider society

ViewMy winning proposal: Sweet success in top NZ grant scheme

Honeybee researcher overcame a dreadful review to win a prestigious Marsden Fund grant

ViewMy winning proposal: Let your bid evolve

How a PhD student followed the learning curve to win a Leakey Foundation grant

ViewOpportunity profile: Bridging the early career funding gap

One-year fellowships from a Swiss medical research foundation help young researchers find their feet

ViewWellcome Leap bets on breakthroughs

The Wellcome Trust’s spinoff fund will coordinate global research teams pushing the frontiers of medicine

ViewMy winning proposal: Focusing on cancer control

Directing her research towards the impact of cancer opened doors for biomedical researcher Melissa Cantley

ViewMy winning proposal: Persistence pays off

Tips from a linguist who secured Marie Curie fellowship on fourth attempt

ViewOpportunity profile: International prize in social science launched

The International Union of Academies' prizes offer a pot of cash and bags of prestige

ViewOpportunity profile: Humanities scholars get a flavour of France

French foundation funds short research trips for humanities and social science scholars

ViewSo you’re new to…the National Institutes of Health

Two NIH insiders offer tips on applying to the world’s largest biomedical funder

ViewLinkage grant forges connections with cultural heritage

Long-term relationships with a remote Aboriginal community formed the cornerstone of a successful ARC bid

ViewOpportunity profile: Learning the hard way

The British Academy's latest development-focused scheme looks at education in conflict and crisis

ViewOpportunity profile: Developing markets in the developing world

UK government-funded scheme offers grants for economics research in low- and middle-income countries

ViewMy winning proposal: China collaborations in the Covid age

Joint programme seeds collaborations between social scientists in Australia and China, despite troubled times

ViewMy winning proposal: Set your sights on the Smithsonian

Attention to detail brings the Smithsonian Institution's prestigious fellowships within reach

ViewOpportunity profile: Research visits to the Holy City

The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust brings professors and postdocs from all countries to Jerusalem

ViewFrom the archive: Agropolis prizes for agricultural research

Food security is once again a focus for the Agropolis Foundation's biennial funding scheme

ViewTop PI Emma Lee: Harvesting social impact

Involving policymakers in her research, Emma Lee is creating lasting social change for Indigenous communities

ViewThe seven deadly sins of multi-partner bids

Identify the hazards involved in consortium bids before you stumble over them

ViewMy winning proposal: Open your mind to US Alzheimer’s funding

With the right skills, non-US scientists can unlock overlooked US funders, like the BrightFocus Foundation

ViewEmerging researchers face uphill struggle at NHMRC

Second round of revamped fellowship scheme favoured senior researchers, writes Dezerae Cox

ViewNegotiation stations

Tips for negotiating with funders and partners over research projects disrupted by Covid-19

ViewMy winning proposal: Boundary-pushing bid scores big

A$8m Snow Fellowships can be a game-changer for ambitious early-to-mid-career researchers

ViewMaking the most of the media spotlight

Oceanographer Erik van Sebille explains how being catapulted into the international media accelerated his career

ViewMy winning proposal: Kick-starting collaborations in China

How a Chinese Academy of Sciences grant opened up fresh research avenues

ViewMy winning proposal: Baroque funder fosters cultural historians

Showing potential for new perspectives on the Baroque age impresses Turin-based funder

ViewMy winning proposal: Food for thought in foreign lands

Travel fellowships in sustainable agriculture with the OECD Co-operative Research Programme favour policy-focused projects

ViewMy winning proposal: A bid worth meditating on

Bial Foundation offers up to €50,000 for frontier research in parapsychology and psychobiology

ViewEquipping medical researchers for the marketplace

$32 million initiative links Australian universities and industry to build business acumen

ViewOpportunity profile: Merck seeks out emerging game-changers

Pandemic preparedness included in research grants call from pharmaceutical giant