The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information.

UK Funders

• AHRC – Follow on Fund for Impact and Engagement . Up to £100,000 available for projects lasting up to 12 months. Closing Date: 31st October 2103.
• NIHR – Public Health Research Programme: Commissioned call. Projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 18th December 2013.
• NIHR – Health Technology Assessment: Commissioned call. Projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 19th December 2013.
• TSB – Assistive Technology Call. Up to £1m available. Closing Date: 4th November 2013.
• TSB – Solving business problems with environmental data. £50,000-200,000 available for projects lasting between 3-12 months. Closing Date: 13th November 2013.
• Royal Academy of Engineering – Research Exchanges with China and India. £2,000 per month of exchange visit for between 3-12 months. Closing Date: 18th November 2013.
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Reframing Dementia in the 21st Century. Up to £50,000 available for 1/2 projects, lasting between 18-22 months. Closing Date: 6th November 2013.
• Nesta – Digital Makers Fund: second open call. £20,000-50,000 available. Closing Date: 14th November 2013.

 EU Funders 

EU – ERA-NET –

Transnational Joint Call 2013 read more

INVOLVE and the Mental Health Research Network teamed up to produce a new resource to help with budgeting for the costs of public involvement in research. It can be used for everything from putting together an involvement budget for an entire study to working out how much it will cost to run a one-off consultation event.

 The first part of the resource is a guide which:

• provides practical advice on what costs are associated with involvement in research
• includes a step-by-step process for identifying the associated costs and planning the budget
• presents examples of research projects with well-developed budgets for involvement work
• contains tips, links to useful websites, and references.

 The second part of the resource is an online ‘involvement cost calculator’ to work out the costs for your research study. read more

The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information.

UK Funders

ESRC – Alcohol Misuse Research. A total of between £750,000-£1.5m available for projects lasting up to 5 years. Closing Date: 29th November 2013. TSB – Better Health Outcomes. Up to £100,000 available for projects lasting 6 months. Closing Date: 31st October 2013. TSB – Supply chain innovation towards a circular economy. Projects up to £1m in value, lasting up to 24 months. Closing Date: 18th December 2013. NIHR – Public Health Research Programme. No fixed limits on cost or duration. Closing Date: 19th November 2013. Royal Academy of Engineering – ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award. Up to £40,000 available. Closing Date: 21st October 2013. UKIERI – Knowledge Economy Partnerships. £5,000-20,000 available for partnerships lasting up to 1 year. Closing Date: 28th October 2013. Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Poverty and Ethnicity: Exploring the links through quantitative research. JRF anticipate commissioning between three and seven projects of 10 months’ duration from a total budget of £150,000. Closing Date: 16th October 2013. Alzheimer’s Research UK – Interdisciplinary Research Grants. Up to £250,000 available for projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 24th January 2014. Cancer Research UK – Drug Discovery Project Grants. Up to £200,000 available for projects lasting up to 2 years. Closing Date: 5th November 2013. Association for International Cancer Research – Project Grants. Up to £200,000 available for projects lasting 3 years. Closing Date: 25th October 2013. The Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund –

Junior Research Fellowships read more

The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information.

UK Funders

AHRC – Design in Innovation: Research Development Fund. Up to £50,000 available for projects lasting up to 6 months and to be completed by October 2014. Closing Date: 31st October 2013. AHRC – Seminar on ‘Engaging with Government’. Aimed at early-career researchers, course, accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Closing Date: 21st October 2013. EPSRC – Research in the Wild: Internet of Things. A total of £3.5 million is available to fund approximately 10 projects, with duration of 18 months. Closing Date: 24th October 2013. British Academy – BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. £500-£10,000 available for projects up to 24 months duration. Closing Date: 16th October 2013. Royal Society – Research Grants. Aimed at early career scientists, up to £15,000 available for projects up to 12 months duration. Closing Date: 15th October 2013. Royal Society – International Exchanges Scheme. Up to £12,000 available for up to 2 years. Closing Date: 15th October 2013. Royal Society – Industry Fellowships. Salary costs and research expenses covered for fellowships lasting up to 2 years. Closing Date: 4th October 2013. Leverhulme Trust – Research Fellowships. Aimed at experienced researchers, up to £45,000 available for fellowships lasting between 3-24 months. Closing Date: 7th November 2013. Leverhulme Trust – International Academic Fellowships. For researchers wishing to spend time outside the UK, up to £30,000 available for fellowships lasting between 3-12 months. Closing Date: 7th November 2013. Leverhulme Trust – Emeritus Fellowships. Aimed at retied academics, up to £22,000 available for fellowships lasting between 3-24 months. Closing Date: 6th February 2014. Wellcome Trust – Sir Henry Dale Fellowships. Salary costs, research and travel expenses covered for fellowships lasting up to 5 years. Closing Date: 1st November 2013. Wellcome Trust – Arts Awards. Up to £30,000 available for projects lasting up to 3 years. Closing Date: 1st November 2013. TSB – Innovation Vouchers. Up to £5,000 available for SMEs to enable them to work with knowledge suppliers, including universities. Closing Date: Various deadlines. Healthcare Infection Society –

Small Research Grants read more

Title	Innovation vouchers
Funder	Technology Strategy Board (TSB)
Deadline	Applications due by 12 noon. Deadlines on: 23 October 2013, 22 January 2014, 29 April 2014, 23 July 2014, 22 October 2014.
Value	Approximately 100 vouchers will be awarded in this round, up to £5,000 in value.
Aim	The Technology Strategy Board invites applications for its innovation vouchers. This scheme helps businesses gain knowledge needed to innovate and grow by working with external experts.The vouchers may be used to fund work with knowledge suppliers such as universities, research and technology organisations, technical consultancies, Catapult centres, design advisers and intellectual property advisers.
Length	N/A.
Eligibility	Start-up, micro, small and medium-sized businesses located in the UK are eligible to apply. This should be the first time they have worked with the selected knowledge supplier. Funded sectors include agrifood, built environment, energy, water and waste, open data innovators and inventors and cyber security
Details	https://vouchers.innovateuk.org/

The University has set up an Open Access Support Scheme to help researchers make their peer reviewed research Open Access by way of paying an Article Processing Charge (APC) to the publisher. Open Access ensures that your research benefits from immediate, unrestricted access to the final published version of your paper.

Making publicly funded research Open Access is a condition of grant for many funding bodies and it is important that researchers are fully informed about the policy of their Research Funder before submitting articles to any publishers. read more

Title	Project Grants
Funder	The Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund
Deadline	28th February 2014
Value	Not stated
Aim	Grants will be awarded for research on aspects of leukaemia and for relevant studies on related haematological malignancies. Requests for support for basic science programmes may be considered. Clinical trials will not be supported. Proposals which are closely related to the prevention, diagnosis, or therapy of leukaemia and related diseases are particularly encouraged. Grants are usually awarded to give additional support to programmes already underway, the aim being to further strengthen activities which are already of high quality. It follows that the KKLF will accept proposals from groups which already have support from other agencies. It is intended that the KKLF funding should not be the ‘core’ funding of any research group. Applicants should state clearly how their proposal relates to their core funding. Project grant applications submitted simultaneously to other funding bodies will not be accepted.
Length	Up to 3 years
Eligibility	The trustees will consider proposals from both UK and non-UK based organisations where the work to be funded is based primarily within the UK.
Details	http://www.kklf.org.uk/programme.html

Title	Field Equipment Grant
Funder	British Society of Soil Science
Deadline	1st April 2014
Value	Up to £1,000
Aim	This grant is designed to enable institutions to buy field equipment to aid in the instruction and understanding of soil science.
Length	Not stated
Eligibility	The grant is available to primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions within the UK.
Details	http://www.soils.org.uk/pages/grants-and-awards/grants

Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States have entered into a new agreement designed to help support international research partnerships between the two countries.

The new two-way lead agency agreement enables a simplified and flexible process for researchers wishing to apply for UK-US collaborative research funding, using the usual systems and processes of the respective funding agencies.

The new agreement is first being piloted by the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the NSF (SBE) in partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). read more

The following funding opportunities have recently been announced. Please follow the links for more information.

UK Funders

AHRC – Care for the Future: Large Grants. Approximately two to four grants worth between £2 million and £4m over a period of between 36 and 60 months are available. Closing Date: 10 October 2013 AHRC – Collaborative Skills Development Grants. Funding of up to £60,000 for up to 18 months. Closing date: 19 September 2013 AHRC – Collaborative Skills Development Grants: Early Career Researchers. Funding of up to £5,000 for up to one year is available. Closing date: 19 September 2013 BBSRC – China Partnering Awards. Grants of up to £30,000 over a period of up to 4 years. Closing date: 27 November 2013 EPSRC – Energy Management in Non-Domestic Buildings. Funding of up to £500,000 for individual projects. Closing date: 3 October 2013 (Intention to Submit) / 5 November 2013 (Proposals) ESRC/Research Grants Council of Hong Kong – Collaborative Projects Programme. The funding limit is set between £15,000 and £99,999 (at 100 per cent full economic cost; funded at 80 per cent) for UK element of the joint project. Closing date: 18 October 2013 TSB/MRC Biomedical Catalyst – Business-led Early Stage Award. Awards may last up to three years and receive up to £2.4 million in funding, with a funding proportion of 60 per cent of eligible project costs for SMEs. Closing date: 2 October 2013 TSB – Future Energy Management for Buildings. Projects expected to range in size between £300,000 – £1m, lasting for 1 -3 years. Closing date:  27 November 2013 (for Expressions of Interest) The Royal Society – Paul Instrument Fund. Grants of up to £75,000 available. Closing date: 16 October 2013 Defra – 

Testing Innovative Approaches for Achieving Sustainable Behviours read more