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funding

ErrantWritings

An honestly terrible grant application

Project title some Complicated thing I mAde up to Spell an acronym, Haphazardly (CASH) Project Summary In our project proposal we plan to develop a ground breaking technology. Existing technologies in the area that we are applying are rubbish, don’t work at all and if used may kill small orphans. Our technology Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 4 years7 November 2018 ago
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Barriers to participating in the research community post-PhD

By the end of the summer I will finally, after many flights, bus rides, moves, milestones, and hour upon hour of writing and editing, have submitted my PhD. With this prospect comes thoughts of the future. I’ve been lucky enough that I’ve been able to attend so many conferences, training Read more…

By Amy Greer Murphy, 5 years ago
ErrantWritings

Calling for a Friday e-mail amnesty

“Dear Applicant” or “Dear Author” is at any stage of your career a terrifying thing to see in your email account. Just those words instil near paralysing fear that could only be worse if the opening lines also included a clown face and a balloon.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years29 November 2017 ago
ErrantWritings

Explaining the not very secret formula for research funding

This year I have had one very singular purpose – get money. Research tends to flow in cycles between running experiments, writing papers and applying for grants. For me, 2017 is all about applying for grants. And writing grants, when you strip away all the flowery words about impact and Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years9 August 2017 ago
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How to fund your research after #Brexit: a flow diagram

Worried about Brexit? Well then this handy flow diagram will give you some tips on how to replace the giant gaping hole that’s about to appear in your finances.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years29 March 2017 ago
ErrantWritings

How to plan your science conference schedule

February is here, you may have already noticed, as calendars are all the rage these days. This means I am well into planning out my year and what I’m going to be doing to keep myself busy. The first thing is obviously planning how many conferences I can go to Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years3 February 2016 ago
Round and round we go
ErrantWritings

The Funding Cycle

When we started up this blog I had hoped to post a bit more educational content on the workings of the sensors we develop and the research that we do. Sadly, however, I have been nowhere near a lab in what feels like months. Partly this is because I have Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years21 November 2012 ago
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