Grant Writing Fundamentals Made Easy: An Early Career Guide - Hardcover

Christine W. Hartmann, Ph.D. is a Research Professor in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the US and a former senior researcher with the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Her career has centered on federally funded research, scientific grant review, grant writing, and mentoring early-career faculty and investigators. Her scholarly expertise spans health services research, implementation science, quality improvement, organizational culture, long-term care, and aging services.

Dr. Hartmann has served as principal investigator on more than $20 million in competitive grants from the US National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs, including a Research Career Scientist award from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research Service. Her scholarship appears in numerous high-impact peer-reviewed journals. She has served on national and international scientific grant review panels, giving her direct insight into how reviewers evaluate grant applications, how proposals succeed or fail, and what early-career faculty and researchers need to understand about the review process. She has mentored early-career faculty, postdoctoral fellows, clinicians, and cross-disciplinary research teams, helping them secure more than $18 million in competitive grant funding.

In this book, she draws on decades of direct experience as a federally funded investigator, grant reviewer, mentor, and grant writing consultant to offer complementary perspectives on how successful grant proposals are developed and evaluated. Her approach focuses on helping applicants write grant proposals that are easier for reviewers to understand, trust, remember, and recommend for funding. In addition to her academic work, she consults on grant writing and engages in public-facing scholarship focused on improving research proposals. She is also the author of a memoir published by Vanderbilt University Press.