Do It Right
- Find a grant.
EPSRC (early career), other councils, sandboxes,
Leverhulme, Companies, JISC etc...
- Give yourself time.
- Get industrial collaborators.
- Line up your reviewers.
- Get it done a couple of weeks before you submit it. Show it to
others, and have a look at it yourself with fresh eyes.
- If you see a flaw, the reviewers will see a flaw.
- It sucks when you see a stupid mistake that you made, that the reviewer
points out.
- Put some funding in for your time. If you get 20% of your time on
a grant, argue (strenously if you'd like) that your teaching load should
be a bit lighter.
- We write to learn.
- Read the rules. Getting a grant rejected because it doesn't pass the
rules really sucks.
- Figure out a plan that you think could reasonably work. That's
part of the fun of writing a grant (really).
- Talk to the RKTO and finance.
- Talk to a Prof, and show it to them. (It's part of our remit.)
