What is the Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award? Leverhulme defines the grant as ‘for talented scholars who have launched a university career but who need to build a team to address a distinct research problem’. The aim of the funding…
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In January 2019, the UK higher education funding bodies published the final guidance and criteria for REF 2021. The guidance on submissions details how UK universities should make their submissions to REF 2021 and the panel criteria and working methods…
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45 delegates are expected in-person at this session, with a great mix of roles ranging from NHS Innovation Champion, Research Fellow, Consultants across a range of disciplines, Research Nurse, Medical Director, Quality Improvement Facilitator, Medical student and many more. Additional…
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Research data management (RDM) is a way for you as a researcher to manage your data during the lifetime of a research project and beyond. Why? sticks (requirements) and carrots (benefits)! Policy compliance: Research funding comes from public money. Funders…
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Lorna Hogarth from the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is coming to deliver details on funding opportunities via Innovate UK funding . She will cover KTP funding and the Industrial Strategy Funding streams. She will also be available for one to…
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Why have the changes been made? The Code of Practice has not been updated since 2016. A number of internal and external changes have led to a lot of the information within it becoming outdated. As a result, the University…
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Inside Government Research and Innovation Conference The annual UK conference on research and innovation further emphasised the Government’s commitment to support the academic community to work with the UK business community. The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund remains the spearhead funding…
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December is peeking around the corner and with it the prospect of 2019. There are lots of exciting ways to engage different publics with your research, and to learn a new skill along the way. The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas…
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Internal Funding Competitions Research Funding Competition 2018-2019 RIO was delighted to see 45 applications submitted for this years Research Funding Competition, and after a rigorous two stage review process, 26 proposals were ultimately supplied with funding. Researchers across the University…
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Last week Yaso Kunaratnam, Policy Officer at UKCDR delivered a presentation on “The evolving research for development landscape”. UKCDR are a collaboration of government and research funders working in the international development arena and together they provide high-level strategic coherence…
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