Strategic Grantsmanship: From Funding Applications to Research Leadership($45.00Value)

Description

Grantsmanship is often taught as a technical skill: how to identify funding calls, write proposals, prepare budgets, and comply with donor requirements. While these skills matter, they represent only a small part of what determines success in today’s funding environment. In practice, grantsmanship is a strategic craft —one that sits at the intersection of research design, institutional politics, donor priorities, partnerships, and academic careers. Many capable researchers fail not because their ideas lack merit, but because they misunderstand how funding systems actually work: who holds power, how agendas shift, how impact is judged, and how grants interact with promotion, supervision, and wellbeing. This book was written to address that gap. Rather than treating grants as isolated transactions, the book approaches grantsmanship as a full lifecycle —from idea conception and donor alignment, through proposal development and negotiation, to post-award management, learning, partnerships, and long-term career progression. It is written especially for researchers in business, management, public policy, and the social sciences, where impact is often indirect, contextual, and contested.