Adam Forristal Golberg is Strategic Research Development Manager (Research Growth) at the University of Nottingham and has also worked at Keele University. He has over sixteen years of experience in supporting research grant applications, mainly in social sciences, but more recently covering the whole breadth of disciplines. He served for four years on an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit funding prioritisation panel as a public/patient representative. He is an ARMA SIG Champion for Research Development. He writes occasionally for Research Professional and blogs at socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk and on Twitter @cash4questions