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HELP FROM RESEARCH SERVICES
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Cradle to Grave
Identify fundersHelp with the proposal and application process
Costing
Institutional ‘sign off’‘Accept’ award and negotiate contract
Manage Award
Financial claimsEnd of Award reports
FundingContracts
Accounts
Research Services
• Help in developing applications– Funding opportunities, drafting applications, costings,
contract negotiations• Help in running grants– Making claims, monitoring, auditing
• Help in developing research community– Grants Factory, peer review, lunchtime seminars
• Coordinating the REF• Ethics & Governance• Watching brief on research-related issues– Open Access, impact, demand management
Research Funding Sources
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Research Councils
• Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (26% - £795m)
• Science & Technology Facilities Council (20% - £624m)• Medical Research Council (19% - £606m)• Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
(14% - £427m)• Natural Environment Research Council (13% - £392m)• Economic & Social Research Council (5% - 165m)• Arts & Humanities Research Council (3% - £103m)
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Charities
• General–Leverhulme Trust–Wellcome Trust–Nuffield Foundation
• Specialist–Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Learned Societies
• Generally provide some small scale support for visits, conferences, fellowships or smaller research projects
• Represent, and act as a forum for, a particular subject or discipline
• British Academy
Main ECR Opportunities
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Scheme Duration Funding ECR?
AHRC Early Career Research Grant
Up to 60 months £50-250k < 8 years PhD
AHRC Early Career Fellowship
6 to 18 months £50-250k 2 years post doc, < 8 years PhD
ESRC Future Research Leaders
Up to 3 Years £250k < 4 years post PhD
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
3 years 50% of salary, max 23k pa
<5 years post PhD
BA Post Doc Fellowship
3 years 3 years salary < 3 years post PhD
ERC Staring Grant 5 years €1.5M 2-7 years post PhD
Kent Peer Review
• Affects:– Research Council applications– First substantial applications– Large grant applications (not EU, partnership,
NIHR)• ‘Intention to Apply’ Form• 2 Reviewers– First: knowledge of discipline– Second: knowledge of funder
Process
KPR Intention to Apply Form
• 2 aims:– To help reviewer understand application– To help applicant structure application
• Series of progressive, interlinked questions:– What’s your question?– Why’s it important?– Why’s it important to answer it now?– What objectives need to be achieved to answer it?– How will you meet these objectives?– How will you disseminate the findings?
KPR Reviewer Feedback Form
• 2 aims:– To force the reviewer to answer specific issues– To give applicant specific feedback
• Questions include:– Can you speed read it and understand it?– Is the question important?– Is it timely?– Does it offer value for money?– Is the applicant competent to undertake project?– If you had to, why would you reject it?
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Internal Approval Form
• Ensures the University endorses and takes responsibility for your project.
• Internal Approval Form– Check list – risks/issues
• Need to attach a ‘Full Economic Costing’• Sign off by:– PI and any Co-Is– HoS (or representative)– Research Services
Grants Factory
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Grants Factory
Further Information
• Research & Impact Strategy: https://www.kent.ac.uk/researchservices/local/documents/committees/bre/current/20130307/bre12%2017.pdf
• Jacqueline Aldridge & Andrew Derrington: The Research Funding Toolkit (Sage, 2012) (http://www.researchfundingtoolkit.org/)
• Research Services: http://www.kent.ac.uk/researchservices/index.html
• Research Professional: http://www.researchprofessional.com/• Brian Lingley contact details:
– 01227 824427– [email protected]