Hello ladies and gentlemen Thank you for your interest in attending this session. My name is Vera Barron and I am the University’s Research Funding manager and European liaison officer, responsible for supporting academic colleagues in securing funding for research projects from competitive sources – these include the European Commission, the UK Govmt Departments, various UK and international charities and trusts, the Research Councils and industry, but the list of possible funders is vast.
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So, because we only have 1 hour, I propose that I will provide you with an overview of the support that is available to research colleagues here at salford and then we will look some examples of funding streams and I wil go through some hints and tips for good proposal writing. Hope that we can then have a discussion……
Research Councils – recognise Full Economic Costing and fund at a generous grant rate of 80%. However, highly competitive. A mix of open calls, specific schemes with set deadlines and, increasingly, strategic initiatives. EU -
1. Research Funding for Beginners This session could provide a summary of funding schemes targeted at, or accessible to, early stage researchers (early career or post-doctoral researchers) such as the ESRC/EPSRC First Grant schemes, the new AHRC Fellowship scheme and other opportunities for small grant awards. The session would also cover what support is available at the University when making an application for funding, and touch on hints and tips for successfully designing a research project and then subsequently developing a good application. Finally we could provide a list web resources and search engines for suitable funding sources. 2. Designing a research project and succesful project application This session would cover tips on defining writing a successful project application for external funding sources and would outline the key issues in effective bid writing and offer tips for good practice. It would also touch upon relevant sources of information and on the University submission processes and support that is available. Finally it would also include tips for reading Calls correctly and identifying the correct sources of funding relevant for their activities. 3. Introduction to project costing and budget development This session will cover the issues such as costing projects and then developing budgets for applications. It will explain the Full economic costing methodology, which has been adopted across all UK HEs and will clarify different types of costs such as directly allocated and directly incurred costs and the varying eligible costs of the funding streams the students may wish to submit an application to. This session will also look at completing the Full Economic Costing spreadsheet.