Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals

Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences demystifies the process of writing winning research grant and fellowship proposals in the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts.Offering practical guidance, step-by-step instructions, and examples of successful proposals, Walker and Unruh outline the best practices to crack the proposal writing code.They reveal the most common critiques of proposal reviewers and offer advice on how to avoid frequent problem areas in conceptualizing and crafting research proposals.Contributions from agency and foundation program officers offer the perspective from the other side of the proposal submission portal, and emerging research funding trends, including how to navigate generative AI, are also covered.New to this edition are:Additional writing prompts, exercises, and tools that give readers hands-on activities to help generate parts of the proposalUpdated guidance on how to identify appropriate grantsUpdated guidance on key tech