The funding call for the research funding competition 2019\/20 has now been launched.<\/p>\n
The funding initiative will be distributed by the Research and Innovation Office using a competitive process to support research initiatives which respond to the University\u2019s vision and mission as outlined in Strategy 2020.\u00a0 The initiative is intended to replicate external processes for funding and be an opportunity to gain experience securing funding in a competitive environment, including peer review and feedback.<\/p>\n
The scheme is intended to be flexible and will support a variety of research projects including funding to support ECRs in pump priming their research, funding to support preparing grant applications or 4* papers, creating impact from research or other initiatives to achieve the University research objectives. Please note: The Research Funding competition 2019\/20 will take a similar format to a Charity funder, therefore, no Directly Allocated (DA) staff costs, estates, or indirects are to be included. <\/strong><\/p>\n Any staff on a research or academic contract can apply for funding. Early Career Researchers are encouraged to apply. Professors can only apply for Impact grants of existing research that will be going forward for a REF Impact Case Study. Professors may be co-applicants to support ECRs research.<\/p>\n (Note: We do not expect staff successful in previous year\u2019s internal funding competitions to repeatedly apply, however we will consider applications in exceptional circumstances conditional on the applicant having submitted final reports where the aims and objectives were achieved for any previous project and where they have applied for external funding in the interim to continue support of their research. Repeat applications could for example, be requested to enhance impact from previous research projects or to initiate a new research area leading towards external funding.)<\/p>\n The competition is launched in March of 2018\/2019 to ensure that all the applications are reviewed and successful candidates notified in time to start\u00a0 research projects by the beginning of the new academic year, 2019\/20.<\/p>\nExamples of activity supported by the funding<\/h2>\n