The Essential Guide to Grant Applications 2025 handouts booklet contains:
Copies of the PowerPoint slides for each of the main presentations
Optional exercises and worksheets
Optional coursework material
Redacted successful funding applications for reference
The EGGA handouts booklet is available to download here.
The presentation slides from the feedback session relating to the coursework from day 1 (Writing Techniques) is available to download here.
The presentation slides from the feedback session relating to the coursework from day 1 (Writing Techniques) is available to download here.
During EGGA 2025, attendees were encouraged to submit questions, which were answered by the RSS team. The spreadsheet of Q&A is available here.
09.30-09.50
Welcome & Introduction
The Purpose of a Grant Application
Sophie Hyndman
09.50-10.20
How Do Projects Get Funded? Processes & People
Issy Reading
10.20-11.00
PANEL DISCUSSION: What do Funding Panels Love & Hate in the Applications They See?
11.00-11.20
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11.20-12.20
Writing Tips: Story, Style & Sales Pitch
Sophie Hyndman
12.20-13.00
LUNCH
13.00-13.50
Getting Your Foot in the Door I: Developing a Research Question (& Aims & Objectives)
Lisa Douet
13.50-14.10
Getting Your Foot in the Door II: Principles of Plain English
Bernard Gudgin
14.10-14.40
Getting Your Foot in the Door II: Writing a Plain English Summary
Sophie Hyndman
14.40-15.00
TEA BREAK
15.00-15.10
Course Work Brief: Writing Techniques
Sophie Hyndman
15.10-16.00
Q&A Session: Space to Ask Questions Arising from Today's Sessions
09.30-09.50
Course Work Debrief
Sophie Hyndman
09.50-10.40
Research Plan I: Expectations & Reviewers' Concerns
Sophie Hyndman
10.40-11.00
Research Plan II: Developing a Research Plan: a Worked Example
Issy Reading
11.00-11.20
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11.20-11.50
Q&A Session
11.50-12.00
Writing Technical Sections: Introduction
Issy Reading
12.00-12.45
Writing Technical Sections I: Statistics
Natalia Permyakova
12.45-13.30
LUNCH
13.30-14.10
Writing Technical Sections II: Health Economics
Liz Stokes
14.10-14.20
COMFORT BREAK
14.20-15.00
Writing Technical Sections III: Qualitative Studies’
Olga Kozlowska
15.00-15.15
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
15.15-15.20
Course Work Brief: Reviewing a Research Plan
15.20-16.00
Q&A Session: Space to Ask Questions Arising from Today's Sessions
09.30-09.50
Course Work Debrief
Sophie Hyndman
09.50-10.45
Research Processes & the Importance of Good Project Planning
Sophie Hyndman
10.45-11.00
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11.00-12.15
The Importance of Patient & Public Involvement
Megan Barlow-Pay
12.15-13.00
LUNCH
13.00-13.40
The Importance of Research Inclusion
Rebecca Barnes
13.40-14.15
PPI & Research Inclusion Q&A Panel
14.15-14.30
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
14.30-15.00
Dissemination - Demonstrating Potential for Tangible Outputs & Impact: Papers, Plus, Plus, Plus!
Dean Phillips
15.00-15.30
Managing Intellectual Property
Janice Ng
15.30-15.45
The Importance of Pre-submission Review, the Role of the RSS & Your Next Steps
Issy Reading
15.45-16.30
Q&A Session: Space to Ask Questions Arising from Today's Sessions