Writing successful competitive grant applications

Graduate School researchers intending to apply for competitive grants may be interested in reading two published papers by Associate Dean – Research Lyn Yates, which provide insights into the assessment process for competitive grant applications and the development and writing of successful applications:

• Yates, Lyn (2006), ‘What does “significance” look like? Assessing the assessment process in competitive grant schemes’, in J. Blackmore, J. Wright & V. Harwood (ed.) Review of Australian Research in Education 6: Counterpoints on the Quality and Impact of Educational Research, Australian Association for Research in Education, Lilydale, pp.57-68.
  
  
• Yates, Lyn (2004), What does good education research look like?: situating a field and its practice, Chap. 5, Competitive Research Grants. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2004.