Jacqueline Aldridge is Research Manager at Kent Business School and has worked in research management for ten years.   During this time, she has helped researchers at all career stages and from a wide range of disciplines write fundable research proposals for a large variety of funding agencies.  Before that, she worked in public relations and marketing for leading brands and international media organisations, such as MTV and Cable & Wireless Communications. She is the author of The Research Funding Toolkit with Andrew M. Derrington.