Securing and Managing Grants

Identifying funding opportunities

Finding the right funding is crucial for turning your research vision into reality. At LSTM, we support you at every stage of the grant lifecycle with dedicated expertise and comprehensive resources.

What we help you understand:

  • Global funding landscapes across health, development, and research sectors
  • Emerging opportunities tailored global health research
  • Strategic partnerships with research funding bodies, foundations and collaborators
  • Deadline management and submission planning

Our team works with you to identify funding opportunities that align with your research goals and career stage. From small pilot grants to major international awards, we help you navigate the complex funding ecosystem.

Developing your proposal

Crafting a winning proposal requires more than just great science. It needs strategic thinking, clear communication, and meticulous attention to detail.

Our comprehensive support includes:

  • Proposal development guidance from concept through to submission
  • Internal peer review to provide an informed critical opinion of your proposal
  • Match-making service putting you in contact with researchers who have expertise or experience in specific funding streams
  • Grant application costing and pricing assistance and budget planning
  • Writing workshops and peer review processes
  • Strategic oversight through our Intention to Submit Committee

Expert guidance at every step:

  • Initial consultation on feasibility and strategy
  • Collaborative proposal development sessions
  • Technical review of draft applications
  • Final submission support and quality assurance
  • Mock interviews and dedicated coaching for fellowship candidates shortlisted for interview

Post-award support

Securing funding is just the beginning. Our experienced finance business partnering team ensures your grant runs smoothly, efficiently, and compliantly from day one through to closure.

Comprehensive financial management:

  • Regular monitoring through reconciliation and forecasting
  • Contract management, including sub-contracts and partnerships
  • Compliance support for funder requirements and regulations
  • Audit preparation and grant closure assistance

Your dedicated support network works closely with you to ensure all administrative burdens are minimised, allowing you to focus on delivering exceptional research.

Enterprise and innovation

We have expertise in translational funding schemes and help direct our researchers in the optimal manner to exploit their intellectual property.

Our innovation ecosystem supports:

  • Intellectual property management and protection strategies
  • Technology transfer and commercialisation support
  • Market access planning for institutions in the majority world
  • Partnership development with industry and NGOs

Read more in our Enterprise Essentials section.

LSTM’s approach to partnerships and collaboration

Equitable partnerships

Effective partnerships are integral to LSTM fulfilling its mission and delivering impactful research. We strive to ensure these partnerships are equitable, recognising the historical and inherent power imbalances that disadvantage partners in low resource settings. Our approach emphasises mutual respect, shared decision-making and transparent governance structures, ensuring that partner institutions have equitable ownership of research agendas, data and outputs.

LSTM is adopting a number of approaches to ensure equity is embedded into all our research partnerships:

  • Principles of equitable partnership
    LSTM researchers collaborated with transboundary partners to co-develop seven principles that are fundamental to enabling equitable partnerships. Our research teams are encouraged to use these when developing their collaborations, with more detailed guidance to facilitate this being produced.
  • Consensus statement on equitable authorship
    LSTM researchers co-authored a consensus statement on measures to promote equitable authorship in research publications. LSTM has endorsed this statement, which recommends journals require a ‘reflexivity statement’ demonstrating how equitable partnership has been promoted throughout the research process.
  • Evidence-informed Capacity Strengthening
    LSTM’s Centre for Capacity Research specialises in the science of research capacity strengthening, conducting research on the process and methods of effective and sustainable capacity strengthening to enable international research institutions to play a central role in addressing global health challenges. The group works with LSTM teams and globally to design, implement and evaluate capacity strengthening programmes and increase partners’ capacity to conduct and manage high quality research.
  • Development of research management capacity
    Developing institutional capacity to negotiate and manage research projects is key to addressing power imbalances for institutions in the global south. In a two-year Wellcome Trust funded project, LSTM is working with four key partners to identify and address capacity gaps in research management and share good practice, with the aim of strengthening institutions’ ability to respond to national and international research priorities and manage large multinational grants.