This week, Phil Ward offers an explainer on everyone’s favourite blue-sky funder, the Leverhulme Trust. We also hear from a Paul Mellon Centre postdoctoral fellow who put her bid together in a week, get some top tips for succeeding with the British Heart Foundation from a former grants committee member, and hear why every academic needs a critical friend or two.
This week in Funding Insight
As a funder that strives to support the research that other funders don’t, the Leverhulme Trust is a perennial favourite with researchers. Phil Ward looks into the trust’s grant assessment structure to understand what kinds of applications are likely to get funded.