The Grantfather: Making an Offer Your Reviewers Can’t Refuse

Eligibility Criteria

This programme is open to people and organisations based in the North East and North Cumbria, as well as those from the following organisations:

  • NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
  • NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC)
  • NIHR Innovation Observatory (IO)
  • NIHR Research Support Service (RSS)
  • NIHR Policy Research Unit (PRU)
  • NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN)
  • NIHR HRC in Diagnostic and Technology Evaluation (HRC)

Course Description

An interactive session on winning research funding by weaving patient and public involvement (PPI) into your proposal like a pro. Learn how to turn funder-speak into real-world impact, impress reviewers, and build meaningful partnerships that go beyond the tick-box.

Developed and delivered by researchers and a public contributor, this session will explore PPI in the context of research funding applications. We will look at the content and purpose of a funding application, and funder expectations about patient and public involvement in both the development and content of the application. We will discuss frameworks and services that can support PPI in funding applications and some of the challenges and common pitfalls. We will talk about different ways in which patients and the public might be involved in the development of a funding application and outline some real life examples of this. There will be an opportunity for discussion.

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Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand the purpose of a research funding application and usual funder expectations around patient and public involvement
  2. Know about frameworks and services that can support research teams (including public contributors) to plan and learn from PPI in the development of a funding application
  3. Learn from real-life examples of public contributions to funding applications from the perspective of researchers and public contributors

Course Dates

Course Start Date:  Tuesday, January 20, 2026 1:00 PM

Course End Date :  Tuesday, January 20, 2026 3:00 PM

Enrolment Dates

Enrolment Start Date:  Monday, October 13, 2025 8:00 AM

Enrolment End Date :  Thursday, January 15, 2026 11:30 PM

Course Location

Online

Course Tutor/s

Allison Farnworth, Bronia Arnott, Janine Smith

Course Delivery Type

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Course Fees

This is a free course.