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Help from research services

Help from research services. Cradle to Grave. Identify funders Help with the proposal and application process Costing. Funding. Institutional ‘sign off’ ‘Accept’ award and negotiate contract Manage Award. Contracts. Financial claims End of Award reports. Accounts. Page 3.

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Help from research services

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  1. Help from research services
  2. Cradle to Grave Identify funders Help with the proposal and application process Costing Funding Institutional ‘sign off’ ‘Accept’ award and negotiate contract Manage Award Contracts Financial claims End of Award reports Accounts Page 3
  3. 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
  4. Research Funding Sources
  5. 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)
  6. Charities General Leverhulme Trust Wellcome Trust Nuffield Foundation Specialist Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  7. 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
  8. Main ECR Opportunities
  9. 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
  10. Process
  11. 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?
  12. 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?
  13. 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
  14. Grants Factory
  15. Grants Factory
  16. 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
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