Question 1

What Should I Expect to Accomplish?

Accepted Answer

Depending on where you are in the process, you might use the series to identify funding opportunities and ensure a good fit with your project, clarify your project’s central argument, strengthen its significance, rethink its organization, identify weaknesses in an existing draft, or develop a clearer overall strategy for an upcoming proposal. You will leave the series with a stronger project, a clearer strategy for presenting it, and a set of tools you can continue using throughout the proposal-development process. You should not expect to write an entire proposal during the six hours of workshop time, but the weekly guidance will enable you to write a full draft if you are completing homework after each session.

Question 2

Do I Need to Have a Proposal in Progress?

Accepted Answer

No. Participants can join the series at different stages of proposal development. You may be starting with an early project idea, considering a particular funding opportunity, developing a new proposal, or revising an application that was rejected. You will benefit most if you have a research project in mind that you can use as a working example during the series.

Question 3

Do I Need the Book?

Accepted Answer

No. The workshop series is based on our book, Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals. Having the book will allow you to go more deeply into the concepts and revisit them after the program. However, purchasing the book is not required to participate successfully in the workshops. Registered participants will receive the exercises from the book.

Question 4

Is This Workshop Only for Faculty?

Accepted Answer

No. The series is designed primarily for faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in creative arts, humanities, social sciences, and education (CASSHE) seeking support for research, scholarly writing, creative practice, exhibitions or performances, community-engaged work, or academic programming. It is also for research development professionals, faculty development professionals, and others who help develop or support externally funded academic projects. Research and faculty development professionals will find the workshop useful for learning approaches and exercises they can adapt when working with faculty at their own institutions. The workshop is not designed for nonprofit grant writers or staff seeking funding for nonprofit organizations or services.

Question 5

What Kinds of Grants and Fellowships Will the Workshop Cover?

Accepted Answer

The workshop focuses on strategies that apply across a wide range of academic grants, fellowships, and project proposals. These may support traditional research, but they may also fund scholarly and creative work that is not always described as “research,” including dissertation and book writing, archival or field-based projects, artistic practice, exhibitions and performances, public humanities projects, community-engaged scholarship, and academic programs or initiatives. Examples and case studies will include fellowships, individual research awards, collaborative research grants, foundation funding, federal funding, and other forms of external support. The emphasis will be on principles of academic proposal development that can be adapted to different funders and opportunities.

Question 6

What Happens During the Workshop Sessions?

Accepted Answer

The workshops are interactive rather than lecture-only sessions. They will combine short presentations, examples, guided exercises, reflection, and opportunities to apply concepts directly to your own project and discuss your project with other participants. Because the three sessions build on one another, participants are encouraged to attend all three workshops and to spend some time between sessions reflecting on or developing their proposal ideas.

Question 7

What Happens During Office Hours?

Accepted Answer

Office hours are optional, informal sessions where participants can bring questions that arise as they apply the workshop concepts to their own projects. You might bring a question about how to frame your project, discuss a funding opportunity you are considering, ask about a section of a proposal that is giving you difficulty, or simply listen to questions and discussion from other participants. Office hours are intended for group discussion and troubleshooting, but not one-on-one review or editing of individual proposals.

Question 8

Will You Review My Proposal?

Accepted Answer

No. The workshop and office hours provide opportunities to discuss proposal strategies, questions, and selected examples, but registration does not include an individual review of your proposal.

Question 9

Are the Workshops Recorded?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Workshop sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants who are unable to attend live or who would like to revisit the material. Recordings will remain available for one month after the final workshop. Office hours will not be recorded.

Question 10

What If I Cannot Attend One of the Workshops Live?

Accepted Answer

You can still participate in the series. Recordings of the three workshop sessions will be available to registered participants for one month after the last workshop. Because the workshops are interactive, attending live will provide the fullest experience, but missing a live session and catching up by viewing a recorded session will not prevent you from continuing with the series.

Question 11

How Much Work Is Expected Between Sessions?

Accepted Answer

There are no formal assignments or required homework. However, you will get considerably more from the series if you spend some time between workshops applying the exercises and ideas to your own project.

Question 12

Will Participants Be Expected to Share Their Research or Proposal Ideas?

Accepted Answer

There will be opportunities for discussion and interaction, but you will not be required to share confidential or unpublished details of your project with the full group. You can decide how much information about your project you are comfortable discussing during workshops and office hours.

Question 13

How Large Will the Group Be?

Accepted Answer

Enrollment is limited to 30 participants. Keeping the cohort relatively small allows for interaction, questions, discussion, and opportunities to apply the workshop material to participants' projects.

Question 14

Can Several People from the Same Institution Participate?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Faculty, researchers, and research development professionals from the same institution are welcome to register. If your institution is interested in registering multiple participants or arranging a workshop specifically for your campus or organization, contact [email address] to discuss institutional participation.

Question 15

What Is the Cancellation and Refund Policy?

Accepted Answer

Cancellations received 10 days prior to the first workshop in the series will receive a full refund. After that date, registration fees are nonrefundable, but you will have access to the workshop recordings and materials for one month after the last workshop.

Question 16

What Technology Do I Need to Participate in the Workshop Series?

Accepted Answer

The workshops and office hours will be conducted via Zoom. You will need a computer or other device with a reliable internet connection and the ability to view shared slides and workshop materials. Participants will receive Zoom access information and any materials needed for the sessions after registration.Participants joining from other time zones should convert the workshop and office-hour times to their local time when planning their schedules.

Question 17

Will Accessibility Accommodations Be Available?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We want the workshop series to be accessible to participants with disabilities.If you require an accommodation to participate fully in the workshops, please contact connect@fundyourresearch.com as early as possible so that appropriate arrangements can be made.

Question 18

FUNDING YOUR RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Funding Your Research Workshop: From Idea to Competitive Proposal

What the Series Includes:

Winter 2027 Dates

Workshop Price: $325

Registration