Grant Writing Workshops

At Mind Your Way, we recognise that grant writing requires more than just a compelling research idea or topic.

If your grant application is to have a chance of success, then you must build the strongest possible connection between your text and its readers. Your colleagues and assessors will not only judge your work by the quality of your ideas; they will be swayed by how you tell the story.

Our grant writing workshops aim to build the skills of researchers as persuasive communicators in their writing to improve the quality of their applications and make them stand out within the highly competitive field of research grant funding.

Who is it best suited for? Our standard grant writing workshop provides current and future applicants with a range of professional development opportunities, regardless of where they are at in their grant writing journey. However, our personalised workshop delivers the greatest benefit when participants have a working draft of their application that can be shared and discussed during the event.

  • Our personalised workshop format involves participants' submitting a short sample of their own draft application content to the facilitator two weeks prior to the event. We then prepare tailored exercises around participants' drafts, for discussion, feedback, and development during the workshop.

  • In our standard workshop format, we use sample texts instead, as participants do not have the opportunity to pre-submit their own writing for feedback on the day.

  • In both workshop formats, participants have access to winning grants from clients we have previously worked with across a number of ARC and NHMRC funding schemes. The workshops teach high-level writing skills, tools, and principles that are not aimed at a specific funding scheme but can be applied across all types of proposals.