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This guide provides essential tools and strategies for researchers seeking funding for clinical trials. It covers where to look for funding opportunities, how to select relevant funders, and tips on writing effective proposals tailored for specific funding agencies. Key topics include developing relationships with funders, navigating the application process, handling electronic submissions, avoiding common mistakes, and responding to reviewers' comments. Additionally, it offers links to resources, online courses, and libraries of grant applications to support researchers throughout their funding journey.
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SUPPORT Trial Funding Tool Starting out: • Where to look for funding - identifying relevant funders/calls • Selecting relevant funders/calls and obtaining relevant information from them Politics of research funding • From interview material • Examples of responses, illustrating randomness of the process • Interview funders, people on review panels, questions commonly asked by review panels Writing the funding proposal • Writing a research protocol – refer to TPT on how to produce a high quality proposal, including budget and timeplan • Links to grant application materials / online courses to writing grant applications • Adapting budget for funding agencies / underfunding • Tips on completing research grant applications (including audio / video): • Meetings co-investigators, collaboration, coherency of style and text • How to tailor proposals for particular funders [with examples] • What to avoid when writing proposals • Common mistakes / reasons for rejection of proposals • Examples of tailoring proposals to particular funders • Editing the proposal
What problems have you experienced in obtaining funding? • What factors facilitated obtaining funding for your trials? • What advice or information might be helpful to researchers who are seeking funding for a trial? • What tools are available to guide researchers through the various stages of seeking funding for a trial?
SUPPORT Trial Funding Tool (2) Working with funding agencies: • Approaching funders: • Identifying a personal contact and developing a relationship with them • Cover letters, biosketch • Submitting research grants, including: • Issues with electronic submission in LMICs • Letters of support [examples] • How grant applications are assessed / how to improve your proposal’s prospects [based on checklists; advice already available from funders; interviews with funders] • Co-funding: issues / advice • Responding to reviewers’ comments (both if shortlisted and if rejected) Examples of sections of proposals Progress reports to funders Advice for funders – how to work with researchers! What to do if your grant application fails • Using feedback from funding agencies to improve the proposal • Seeking alternative funders
SUPPORT Trial Funding Tool (3) • Glossary • Libraries of grant applications + forms • Web resources: funders, TPT, other sites that provide tips on these issues, examples of how to respond to reviewer comments? [ito structure, language etc.], lists that distribute funding calls, other funding related newsletters (e.g. ‘Research Africa’)