Acquire and implement the skills fundamental to developing a research proposal. Designed for faculty and permanent staff researchers at all stages of their career, activities range from gaining competitive intelligence to writing pieces of a proposal in real time. Workshops include practical, hands-on components to help researchers move closer to their proposal development goals. Register for upcoming sessions via the events sidebar, and visit the resource library for slides, handouts, and recordings from past events.
Find Funding and Support
Explore tools and campus resources to support your short and long-term research goals.
UT Research Proposal Services for External Funding
Meet and network with the on-campus teams that provide support for proposal development. Map out the resources that are most useful to you to create a customized support plan.
When: Fall 2025
UT Internal Research Funds
An overview of internal research funds at UT, presented by the UT units that support them. Strategize how one-time internal funds can help you plan for longer-term external funding.
When: Fall 2025
Find Funding and Create Your Grant Submissions Calendar
Carve out time to plan out your grant deadlines and the milestones you need to reach in order to submit.
When: Summer 2025
Funder-Specific Advice
OVPR offers competitive intelligence, best practices, and strategic peer advice on specific funding opportunities across disciplines. Check out upcoming events, or search the resource library for tips on NEH, NIH, NSF, DoD funding and more.
When: Ongoing, throughout the academic year
Demystifying F&A Costs
F&A, or indirect costs (IDC), help reimburse the less apparent, but very real operating costs of doing research. Learn about the what and the why of F&A costs at this annual webinar.
When: Spring 2026
Pitch Your Research
Articulate your research for external audiences to appeal to various research funders.
The How and Why of Contacting a Program Officer
Program officers play a valuable role in connecting your research to the funders’ goals. Learn best practices and draft early communications with program officers in this workshop.
When: Summer 2025
Perfect Your Research Pitch
Have a meeting with a program officer coming up? Explaining your research vision to potential collaborators? Practice delivering your "elevator" pitch and receive real-time feedback from an interdisciplinary group of your peers.
When: Fall 2025
Write Your Research One-Pager
How do you distill your complex research proposal into a page? Structure your overview or abstract according to our best tips and receive feedback from your peers in this workshop.
When: Fall 2025
Collaborate and Expand your Research Impact
Take your research to the next level through interdisciplinary collaborations. Expand the impact of your work through partnerships and outreach.
Embark on Collaborative Research
A panel of UT researchers share their best practices for beginning and sustaining collaborative research projects.
When: Spring 2026
Center Grants 101
Research Impact Series and Tools
Check out our workshops, tools, and online resources designed to help you create a research impact plan, applicable to NSF Broader Impacts and other funders with similar requirements.
When: Ongoing, throughout the academic year
Research Impact Partnerships
Connect with the on-campus support units that facilitate community engagement, educational outreach, industry relations, and other areas of research impact. With facilitated networking activities. This is also an opportunity to connect with other researchers invested in expanding their research impact.
Write and Develop
Join OVPR for facilitated writing sessions and seminars to write and revise your proposals.
Grant Writing Workshop
Our annual, full-day seminar on grant writing tips with a focus on federal funding.
When: Spring 2026
Tailoring Your Research Proposal to the Solicitation
Research Impact Writing Retreat
If you’ve utilized our research impact resources and want to take the next step, join us for an all-day writing retreat. Participants will develop and write an effective impact plan.
When: Summer 2025
Align Supplemental Documents with Your Research Vision
Supplemental documents like budgets, bios or biosketches, and data management plans are all a part of the story that your proposal tells. In this workshop, participants will assess whether their supplemental documents are aligned and convey the same message.
When: Spring 2026
Shut Up and Write!
OVPR’s all-day grant writing retreat for PIs working on research grant proposals. Enjoy a full day of quiet writing time and attend optional breakout sessions with OVPR staff to discuss your questions about funding proposals.
When: Fall and Spring, end of semester
After Submission
Assessing Feedback on Your Grant Proposal
Distill reviewer feedback with a group of your peers and create an action plan for resubmission.
When: Summer 2025
Office of Sponsored Projects and Post-Award Support
Congratulations on your award!
Check out resources from the Office of Sponsored Projects and the research administration directory for essential post-award support.
UT Principal Investigators can register now for informational sessions on the recent shifts in U.S. research funding.
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OVPR's Investigator Skill-Building events are designed and reserved for campus faculty and research staff with PI status only. Non-PI staff and students, while ineligible to register, are welcome to view materials in OVPR's resource library.