Leadership

Key point from the data:

• Leadership is an inherent aspect and requirement of a grant applicant's application development and project-related endeavours. 

Given the interviewees were all the principal instigators of the ideas for their learning and teaching projects and authors of their applications, the interview data as a whole naturally speak to the idea of leadership. Most, if not all, sections and themes that have been developed from the interview data are rich with descriptions of leadership. While there is no need to reiterate volumes of information here to demonstrate this, the following observations crystallise the notion of leadership and how it is expressed in national learning and teaching grant applications.

In the section titled Find a mentor, Agnes (D-size institution) indicated that the person who was developing the project idea needed to 'do the work'. She said, 'One person needs to take the leadership for … pulling the application together … Listen to everybody, everyone, we all did edits and all of those sorts of things and consulted but then (name withheld) sat down and pulled it all together so that it was nice, streamlined and coherent'. Chris (C) expressed the same sentiment when he mentioned, 'One person does the hard work'. Mikko (A) said he 'had a good idea, and ... went ahead with a project application, inviting the people/institutions I felt could be of good value for the project, to participate. In these cases I had to do most of the work in project design, team formation, and project application'.