Research Culture Community Funds
Changing Research Culture takes time and motivation, but it also takes support and resource!
The Enhancing Research Culture Funds aim to enable our community to change their culture for research.
Together, let’s shape our culture for research. Change belongs to all of us.
QR Enhancing Research Culture (ERC) Project Fund
We want to support innovative and experimental projects and activities proposed and delivered by our research community that help build a more positive research culture. These could be local projects, activities that inform institutional practices or have impact nationally and/or internationally. We want to encourage applications for activities that could lead to sustained improvements in research culture and offer the opportunity for us (and others) to learn from them. We are allocating up to £60K to the Enhancing Research Culture Project Fund to support community-led projects aligned with our Research Culture Action Plan. Applicants can apply for up to £20k per project per year, and projects can last until June 30th 2025. Application deadline 5pm Thursday 30th November 2023.
QR Enhancing Research Culture (ERC) People Fund
The people fund aims to enhance personal and professional development of colleagues from across the organisation to open up new opportunities in facilitating, supporting, enabling and promoting research, as well as enable a more positive research culture. Applications can be made by individuals or teams. There is no application fund limit, although applications <£1000 are encouraged. There is no closing date, but funds are limited. We encourage early applications, particularly those that end before 30th June 2024. Postgraduate researchers please see the aligned Doctoral College Enhancement Fund
Enhancing Research Culture Research Retreat-type activity
Our community have demonstrated a clear need for time and space to focus on their research-related activity. To promote this, we are allocating £10K to pilot a project of ‘research-retreat’ activities. We want to work with the community to understand how we can offer research retreat opportunities more broadly, improving accessibility and sustainability. We want the research retreats to offer a time to focus on your research-related activity, be that writing grants, fellowships, books or papers, analysing data, strategic project planning or deep-thinking. Whether you have a pre-defined idea of a research retreat you’d like to run, or if you are curious about the opportunity, please apply to our Enhancing Research Culture Research Retreat. Application deadline 5pm Thursday 30th November 2023.