Grant writing (Workshop)

What about grants?

The BSI PhD platform is excited to announce that we're organizing a new set of events aimed at building new skills! This first set of new workshops is aimed at familiarizing PhD students with academic grants. Although grants are an essential part of the inner workings of academia, the way the system of grants actually works is something that is often quite opaque to most PhD students. Nevertheless, grants are an important part of how universities operate (in fact, your position may be paid through one!), and for those of us that will continue our academic careers after our PhD, applying for them will become an integral part of our work.

Workshop 12 June

As such, we're organizing two events that will help make this system easier to navigate. Our first session will take place on June 12th, 15:00 - 17:00, and will consist of two parts.

1st Part: Fundamentals of the grant landscape

The first part will be facilitated by Kwan Lee and Joeri Jorg from the Faculty of Social Sciences' Grant & Funding support, and they will give an introduction to the fundamentals of the grant landscape: what grants are, how they work, who the major funders are (in NL/Europe), and what it takes to secure one.

2nd Part: experiences prof. dr. Karin Roelofs & prof. dr. Tibor Bosse

The second part of this session will consist of two researchers at the BSI  who have extensive experience with grant applications (Dr. Karin Roelofs and Dr. Tibor Bosse) sharing their own experiences with applying for grants: how they approached the various grants that they applied to, what worked for them, and also what didn't.

In principle the first event is intended for PhD students that are mostly unfamiliar with the grant system and want to learn more.