And now for something completely similar

I have one more "a lot learned, more to learn" item to add.

Solo or Collaborative Grants?

I now know that I find it easier (faster, less stressful) to put together grant proposals on my own than with a collaborator. The original drafting, then revising according to comments from colleagues, is much less effort when I don't have to bounce the documents back and forth with a co-investigator or two.

• Should I focus on writing grants by myself or with other people? I'm bursting with ideas at the moment: all feasible, some very good, and many of those seem highly fundable. I can write up two or three of these into a grant proposal in the same time it takes to settle on and write a collaborative proposal. Is it better to fire out solo grants as fast as I can write them? Or take the time to set up potentially valuable collaborations that the grant bodies might be more likely to fund?