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– B.lingley@kent.ac.uk