Prevention is better than cure for these frequent missteps in healthcare funding applications
I am a site lead in Kent for the National Institute of Health Research’s Research Design Service South East. Translated into acronymic that means I’m SL for the NIHR RDSSE. Translated into English it means I assist health and social care researchers who are looking to improve or sharpen their bids to the NIHR, or get advice on previously unsuccessful ones.
This in turn means I’ve become familiar with the most common mistakes that researchers tend to make when putting together a bid. These are mostly preventable, so I present this list of the five main ones like a dentist telling you to floss, or your GP saying you should get some exercise… I’m being annoying but it’s for your own good (or at least the good of the bid that you’ve worked so hard on).