Grant Lab
What I've learned about writing grant proposals, from many rejections and some awards.
Your idea is great. Now make it the funder's idea too.
How careful analysis of grant requirements helps you align your research with what funders actually want to fund.
Read the article →Get honest feedback before the reviewers do.
How AI feedback gives you the critical, requirements-grounded review that most researchers only get when it's too late.
Read the article →Stop staring at the blank page. Start from structure.
How to turn scattered ideas into a structured first draft — so you can edit and improve instead of starting from nothing.
Read the article →The 80/20 of grant writing: focus on what matters.
How to spend your limited time where it matters most to reviewers — and stop over-polishing sections they barely notice.
Read the article →Writing in your second language shouldn't cost you the grant.
How non-native speakers can compete on equal terms.
Read the article →A personal reflection on getting grants, and what I think actually mattered.
Rejection, persistence, and what the grant system needs to change: a personal account from a researcher and grant writer.
Read the article →Try it on your own grant: upload the call, add your ideas, and get a first draft and feedback. Your free week includes everything, and needs no card.
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