“I am a research grant failure: Realities and lessons from the frontline”

This session is designed to open up to the realities and pains felt when searching for funding/grant success.

The main facilitator will provide a series of examples of failure to discuss and highlight key learnings (some of which are quite controversial). It is hoped that participants will bring their own experiences as well as creating a list of ‘unseen’ factors potentially highly useful when constructing new funding bids. Initial networks are started here.

Webinar Series Aims: 

Three webinars, four aims.

  1. Webinar 1 (20th November 2024): To understand and examine failures and successes when applying for grants (a focus on previous submissions).
  2. Webinar 2 (4th December 2024): To explore and build ideas for making sustainable development grants more competitive (a focus on new project ideas) and to build networks and teams towards common interests in sustainable development grants (a focus on project team building).
  3. Webinar 3 (8th January 2025): To outline potential new proposals for sustainable development grants and set targets (a focus on action towards submitting new grant proposals).
  4. Action orientated following the series: Within new networks, and with new projects, submit competitive sustainable development focused funding bids.

The webinar series is designed to encourage, inspire and create action towards sustainable development grants (and therefore sustainable development action). It is an ever-competitive process and achieving success is harder than it has ever been.

This series will bring together energy and passion with a view towards greater grant success (especially for those that have never achieved it before). Academics under pressure to win grants or wanting to really push their careers will hopefully be interested in generating understanding, better networking and bringing ideas to fruition.

Our Sustainable and Responsible Business SIG will provide a base outside of institutional pressures to creatively discuss and strategize ways forward for the coming months and years. The SIG and related network will be there to fast-track advice and pose questions within a relaxed atmosphere of like-minded academics.

While this is a seres of events, and it is advisable to attend all three, all events must be registered for individually in order to attend.

Provider Information

BAM Sustainable and Responsible Business (SRB) Special Interest Group

Who Should Attend?

Early Career or Mid-Career researchers may find most benefit, especially where they are seeking those first contacts and initial successes with grants, but this is not the limit of our welcome. Practitioners may also want to get involved to find a network of academics to work with.

The event speaks to Academics, Mid-career researchers, Early career researchers, Doctoral students, Practitioners, as detailed in the BAM Framework 

Facilitator
Dr Simon Smith

Dr Simon Smith

Principal Lecturer in Business, Management and Enterprise, Oxford Brookes University

Benefits of attending 
  • Learning from failure with grant funding submissions
  • Develop new networks towards new funding projects
  • Action: Submit more (and hopefully successful) funding bids
  • Feel more integrated with the SRB SIG
  • Contemplate how to create funding bids for SD/RM(E)/SDGS
Contact

Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.  

Event Fee 

BAM Members - FREE
Non-BAM Members - £35

If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.

You can find out more information about Becoming a BAM Member by visiting BAM Membership

Registration closes on 15th November 2024 at 23:59 BST

Payment and Cancellation Policy

Payment for the event must be received before the start date of the event concerned. Access will not be permitted to the event if full payment has not been received. 

Cancellations 

  • Cancellations received within 14 days of booking your place on the event will receive a full refund. 

  • Cancellations received after the 14-day cancellation period and later than 14 days before the start date of the event will not be eligible for a refund.  

  • Although we endeavour to run all events as advertised, BAM reserves the right to cancel any event if, for example, there are not enough people to justify running the event or if other significant unforeseen circumstances arise.

To cancel a booking a cancellation request must be submitted via your BAM Account, to do this:

  • Go to your BAM Account
  • Click 'My Events'
  • Under 'Upcoming Events' will be the booking, please click Cancel Booking
  • Follow the steps and complete the request

The next Sessions in the SRB Networking Webinar Series:

 

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