Proposal Writing Workshop (1-4 August 2019)

Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent.

This workshop was run to support development of participants research for the July 2019 Grant Calls.

Main Workshop Topics:

Introduction to the Cara Syrian Fellowship Scheme

• Key principles of grant proposal writing
• Summarising the project for lay audiences (non-specialist language)
• Finding some examples of literature

Literature review

• Setting out the ‘state of the art’
• Identifying gaps in the knowledge base
• Locating the study in relation to extant research

Methodology

• Research questions
• Choosing appropriate methods
• Engaging with methodological literature

Impact and beneficiaries

• Defining academic value and impact beyond academia
• Academic and non-academic beneficiaries
• Publication/output strategy

An EAP colleague provided support throughout, focussing particularly on sentence level writing, idioms and vocabulary.