Originally published on eve.gd on 20 March 2025, last updated 6 September 2026.
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I am making a concerted effort to make grant applications that I have written openly available. We are far too secretive about these, because we don’t like to expose the cases where we “failed” (didn’t get the grant). I am no different to anyone else in this respect - it’s not gratifying to have to unveil that you applied for 50,000 grants and only got 1 of them. But it’s more realistic. So I’ll try to put up some “failures”, too. (Where that wouldn’t compromise anybody or any relationship.)
Today, I’m sharing my successful Philip Leverhulme Prize application in the field of languages and literature from 2019 so that people can get a sense of what you need to do and how you need to write it.
You can find the application on KC Works or in BIROn.
The “internal statement” was, if I remember rightly, the document I wrote for the “internal” competition at the university. The actual Leverhulme form was then based on that.
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1. Eve, Martin Paul, ‘A successful Philip Leverhulme Prize application in the field of languages and literature (2019)’, KCWorks, 20 March 2019 <https://works.hcommons.org/records/gjz0n-7j503>
2. Martin, Eve,, ‘A successful Philip Leverhulme Prize application in the field of languages and literature (2019)’, BIROn, 20 March 2019 <https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55209/>
https://works.hcommons.org/records/gjz0n-7j503
https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/55209/