Grants and Grant Writing for Qualitative Researchers
Are you a qualitative researcher ready to turn your ideas into funded projects?
This course is your complete guide to the world of grant writing — tailored specifically for qualitative and community-based research. Whether you're applying for your first dissertation grant or building your portfolio for federal funding, we’ll walk you through each step with clarity, practical tools, and real-world examples.
You’ll learn how to:
- Find and evaluate the right funding opportunities for your work
- Build meaningful partnerships with practitioners and communities
- Craft compelling proposals that showcase the strength of qualitative inquiry
- Navigate federal funders like NIH and NSF with confidence
- Budget thoughtfully and manage your project once it’s funded
What makes this course different? We center the value of storytelling, context, and complexity — the things qualitative research does best. You’ll leave with a toolkit of templates, examples, and strategies you can use right away.
No jargon. No guesswork. Just step-by-step guidance built for researchers like you.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the right funding sources for your qualitative research
- Build strong research-practitioner partnerships
- Make a clear case for qualitative methods in proposals
- Write compelling, funder-aligned grant narratives
- Create realistic budgets and justifications
- Navigate submission processes and manage funded projects
- Use templates and tools to support future applications
This course is designed for:
- Graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers conducting qualitative or mixed-methods research
- Faculty or independent scholars looking to build or strengthen their grant-writing skills
- Researchers working in applied, community-based, or justice-oriented settings
- Anyone interested in securing funding for qualitative research, evaluation, or partnership-based projects
No prior grant-writing experience is required. Whether you’re preparing your first proposal or revising one that wasn’t funded, this course offers clear, practical support every step of the way.
Rudes, D. (2025). Grants and Grant Writing for Qualitative Researchers. Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network Coordination and Translation Center. https://www.jcoinctc.org/
Grant writing, Research funding, Proposal writing, Qualitative research, Mixed-methods research, Graduate student research, Early-career researcher, Dissertation funding, Academic career development, Community-based research, Applied research, Practitioner partnerships, Research-practice collaboration, Storytelling in research, Budget justification, NIH proposal, NSF grants, Research toolkit, Biosketch writing
