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Demystifying Grant Budgets—Webinar Recording

For researchers in the natural sciences seeking insights into developing a budget for their grant application

Learn from an expert research management and training consultant specialising in grant writing support of researchers at all levels

1 hour of learning

Webinar recording with English captions and transcript

About this course

Are you securing funding for your upcoming research, conference attendance or field trip? Maybe you've already identified the perfect funding opportunity through our "Finding Funding Opportunities" course and crafted a compelling application using insights from our "Persuasive Grant Writing" course.

Before you finalise and submit your grant application, there's one crucial task left – creating a budget that outlines how you'll use the requested funding. But what expenses qualify and what costs should you consider?

In this webinar recording, funding expert Riana Coetsee shares practical strategies on getting out of starting blocks with your grant budget, including an overview of your usual budget items, a budget narrative and insights on what information funders want to see.

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Demystifying Grant Budgets—Webinar Recording

Meet the expert

Riana Coetsee is a research management and training consultant, specialising in skills development for early career researchers and grant writing support for researchers at all levels.

She most recently held the position of Group Manager & Head: International & Early Career Research Grants at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Since April 2020 she has offered virtual interactive research skills training to almost 1,000 researchers on the African continent. 

Riana is one of the experts who helped us create our on-demand training course “Finding Funding Opportunities”.

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