Storytelling in Grant Writing Workshop
Julie Turner presented the "Storytelling in Grant Writing" workshop, offering valuable insights into how narratives enhance grant proposals. The event highlighted strategies for combining emotional connection with data to create compelling grant narratives—an approach particularly relevant to researchers and developers working on open source and research software projects.
The workshop was facilitated by Jenna Gorlewicz, Associate Dean, who emphasized the importance of storytelling in communicating research vision effectively in grant applications. In her follow-up, Jenna noted that storytelling is an essential component of sharing the vision of research, making it a powerful tool for grant proposals across disciplines, including open source and research software development.