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Access to success pathways: inclusive research excellence (aspire).

Mangan, C. , Takwoingi, Y. , Millward, C. , Tickell, A. , Kenny, E. & Stamataki, Z.

THE WELLCOME TRUST

1/04/24 → 31/03/26

Project : Research

UKFin+ Agile

Kromidha, E.

1/03/24 → 30/06/24

Project : Research Councils

Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Birmingham and DEENOVA UK LIMITED

Rockey, J. & Green, W.

DEENOVA UK LIMITED , TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD

1/11/23 → 31/10/25

A Critical History of the SEC’s Town Hall Rule

George Mason University

1/08/23 → 31/07/24

ACES Phase 4

Sayin, L. , Peters, T. , Green, C. & Lewis, P.

United Nations Environment Programme

1/08/23 → 30/11/25

Manufacturing beyond Brexit, Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine

Economic & Social Research Council

31/12/22 → 31/05/25

• levelling 100%
• Leveling 98%
• metropolis 90%
• Metropolis 81%
• Agglomeration 79%

Exploring minority ethnic doctors' career transitions in medicine: a life course approach

Duberley, J. , Darko, C. & Kenny, E.

1/10/22 → 30/09/25

Developing an inclusive research network to co-design livelihood recovery measures for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria

Ambituuni, A.

Arts and Humanities Research Council

12/12/22 → 31/10/23

Identifying and examining COVID-19 pandemic effect on consumers’ concerns and behaviours in the food supply chains

Soltani Delgosha, M.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

3/05/22 → 2/11/22

Values-based recruitment: A review of existing evidence

Wheatley, D.

12/04/22 → 20/06/22

ESRC IAA (2022): Holly Birkett Urgency Fund - Working Fathers Awards

Birkett, H.

11/02/22 → 31/03/23

Good Work Index 2022

CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL & DEVELOPMENT

7/02/22 → 30/04/22

Investigating informal learning and development of healthcare professionals under macro-turbulence

Nyfoudi, M.

British Academy

1/11/21 → 31/10/23

Kristianstad University Visiting Fellowship

Kristianstad University

15/08/21 → 31/08/22

ESRC IAA Post COVID-19 policies for the future of work and employment

Dobbins, T.

1/07/21 → 30/06/22

Labour rights and collective politics in the gig economy

1/05/21 → 31/07/22

Influencing policy and practice through examining UK small business understanding of and response to COVID-19 regulation and guidance

24/03/21 → 23/03/22

ESRC IAA ABC - Emma Partlow - Putting policies into practice: understanding the implications of employment policies and legal frameworks for disabled employees

1/11/20 → 28/02/22

ESRC IAA ABC - Lowri Wyn-Evans - Supporting LGBTQ+ parents in the workplace

1/11/20 → 31/10/21

A Study of COVID-19 Social Media Infodemic in the Retail Pharmacy Industry

1/09/20 → 30/09/22

• Conceptual Model 100%
• Blockchain 94%
• Social Media 67%
• Agency Theory 24%
• Incentive Mechanism 18%

Exploring the geography of the intangible dimension of innovation

Corradini, C.

Leverhulme Trust

1/08/20 → 31/05/22

Evaluation into how female and male staff have different experiences of working for the House of Commons Service

Duberley, J. , Taylor, S. & Birkett, H.

House of Commons (Parliament UK)

1/08/20 → 31/07/21

ESRC IAA Covid and Homeworking Employees Report

1/07/20 → 31/08/22

ESRC IAA Engagement Seminars on Covid and Work Inclusivity

27/05/20 → 31/05/21

UKICE Small Project Fund - The Post-Brexit Policy-Support Needs of ‘Left-Behind’ Places

Cepeda Zorrilla, M. R. , Ortega Argiles, R. , Sevinc, D. , Bailey, D. & De Propris, L.

1/02/20 → 30/04/20

Nishit Dhanji: NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellowship

Carmichael, F. , Dhanji, N. & Al-Janabi, H.

NIHR TRAINEES COORDINATING CENTRE

1/10/19 → 30/09/20

Small Business Charter schools - Driving Productivity in Micro-businesses

Chartered Association of Business Schools

1/09/19 → 31/08/20

Understanding the impact that family firms have on society and how they engage with the communities they belong to

Trehan, K. & Glover, J.

Institute For Family Business Research Foundation

1/08/19 → 31/07/20

ESRC IAA: Fathers in the Workplace Toolkit

Forbes, S. & Birkett, H.

1/07/19 → 31/03/23

Using and evaluating different forms of engaged scholarship to explore emotional sense-making in small firms

INSTITUTE FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTRENEURSHIP

1/06/19 → 30/09/20

UK Working Lives Survey

1/05/19 → 30/06/19

The ethics of living wages for low-paid staff in UK professional football clubs

1/05/19 → 31/03/22

• Moral Economy 100%
• Living Wage 94%
• Football 73%

Poverty Alleviation and Women Refugees in the Middle East: Empowerment through Grassroots Micro-Entrepreneurship?

1/05/19 → 30/12/19

Changing Lanes? Brexit and UK Automotive: Impacts and implications for corporate strategies and industrial policy.

1/05/19 → 31/12/22

• industrial policy 100%
• economic geography 47%
• manufacturing 44%
• regional economy 42%
• technological change 41%

Transition from school to work: unravelling the mechanisms for employment in Ghana

Carmichael, F. & Darko, C.

3/12/18 → 30/04/21

What motivates employers to improve their shared parental pay offer?

Birkett, H. & Forbes, S.

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

3/12/18 → 30/11/19

Project : Other Government Departments

Challenging Different Forms of Bias in Physical Science and Engineering Research

Rowe, J. , Duberley, J. , Martin, U. & Stewart, B.

Engineering & Physical Science Research Council

1/11/18 → 30/04/21

IAA - Influencing Shared Parental Leave take up across the UK

1/09/18 → 31/03/19

Corruption, institutions, and economic growth: the development of anti-corruption laws in Europe

Bensassi, S.

ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

1/09/18 → 31/08/19

Capturing 'Buzz' for innovation and entrepreneurship: an exploration of regional social structures as reflected by social media

2/07/18 → 1/02/19

• social media 100%
• economic geography 76%
• innovation 68%
• atmosphere 47%

Making Responsible leadership Everyone's Business

INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

1/04/18 → 31/12/20

Inclusive Innovation for enahanced local experience in tourism

BRITISH COUNCIL

1/04/18 → 31/01/19

ESRC IAA - Urgency Fund - MENA Workshop, Informal Trade in Tunisia Roundtable

22/03/18 → 21/04/18

To exploit existing big data arising from decision making, by appropriate mining, monetisation and marketing and to extend company offering from public to new markets inluding the private sector

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD

19/03/18 → 31/05/20

Understanding student attitudes towards trade unions: a study of Australia, Denmark, Sweden and the UK

1/12/17 → 1/12/20

ENCOMPASS: Engaging Communities, Publics and Society

Stevenson, C. & Gough, R.

Natural Environment Research Council

31/10/17 → 30/11/18

Raising the Ceiling on Diversity & Inclusion: A Corporate Retail Case Study

Cassell, C.

1/09/17 → 31/12/19

ESRC IAA 2014 - FOF - Building as inclusive business support ecosystem

1/04/17 → 31/01/18

Call for research on Non-Compliance with the National Minimum wage (FWRECR17020LPC)

Ram, M. & Edwards, P.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

27/02/17 → 31/03/18

Spaces of Impact: Understanding Impact-Oriented Knowledge Hubs and their Role in the Creation and Development of Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Soundararajan, V. & Trehan, K.

1/11/16 → 30/04/18

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The Research Strategy and Services team provides support for a range of internal and external funding schemes available to researchers.

UK sources of research funding

There are multiple different ways to gain funding for your research in the UK, including Research Councils, societies and academies, charities and professional bodies. Many of these are listed below; you can also find funding opportunities via Research Professional - live database that is searchable by specific terms, dates, award values and more.

Research Councils

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK. Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined budget of more than £6 billion, UKRI brings together the 7 Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England:

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
• Innovate UK
• Research England

UKRI also hosts the  Gateway to Research , an extensive record of publicly funded research in the UK.

Societies and Academies

• The Royal Society
• The British Academy
• The Royal Academy of Engineering
• The Royal Society of Edinburgh
• The Academy of Medical Sciences
• Royal Geographical Society
• The British Science Association
• Edinburgh Geological Society
• Royal Astronomical Society
• Zoological Society of London 
• Association of Medical Research Charities
• The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• The Leverhulme Trust  
• The Wellcome Trust
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
• UK Collaborative on Development Sciences   

Professional Bodies

• Bar Council
• Biochemical Society
• British Dental Association
• British Medical Association
• British Psychological Society  
• General Medical Council 
• Society of Biology
• Institute of Chemical Engineering
• Institute of Physics
• Institute of Engineering and Technology
• Law Society
• Law Society of Scotland
• Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
• Royal College of General Practitioner
• Royal Society of Chemistry

UKRI Funding Service (TFS)

The Funding Service (TFS) is a new online system for finding, applying for and managing research funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It aims to simplify and improve the funding experience for applicants, reviewers and research offices. 

TFS is being rolled out over 2023 and will replace the JeS system - find out how this will affect your funding opportunities and applications on our TFS information page .

Internal research and Impact funding 

Impact acceleration accounts .

Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) support  impact ,  knowledge-exchange , and  translational  activity within each respective funder's remit. Funding is awarded to the University as an institution by each research council and then distributed via internal competition through various funding streams.

Birmingham Institutional Impact Fund

The Birmingham Institutional Impact Fund is an internal fund designed to support high qualtiy, academic-led, research impact projects. Research Impact is a crucial part of the  University’s Birmingham Strategic Framework 2030 , reflecting the University’s commitment to creating meaningful change in the world beyond academia by demonstrably improving the economy, society, the environment, and contributing to human health and wellbeing.

Learn more about the Birmingham Institutional Impact Fund

Other internally-managed funds

Gender equality research funding.

The  IGI's Gender Inequality research theme  has launched an open call for seedcorn funds of  up to £7,500. Projects must be interdisciplinary, align with or be complementary to existing Gender Inequality them research and take place by July 2023.  The deadline for applications is 28 October 2022.

We welcome proposals for new research ideas that tackle gender inequality. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary projects that bring together our six research topics of interest in new ways. For example:

• Respectful maternity care, from patient and health workers’ perspectives
• Gender equality over the life-course, especially education and careers
• Understanding ‘hard to observe’ aspects of gender inequality through data
• Changing attitudes to sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights (especially miscarriage and abortion) and service provision
• Women’s experiences of migration and incarceration
• Traditional, indigenous, and cultural knowledge and gender roles
• The changing role of technology in gender-based violence (in causation, reporting, access to justice or survivor support)

If unsure, please get in touch, we’d love to work with you on your ideas. Questions regarding the fund can be directed to  Leah Fitzsimmons .

How to apply

A maximum of £7,500 per project is available. Further details are available in the scheme application form, linked below. Completed application forms should be sent to  Leah Fitzsimmons .

The deadline for applications is 28 October 2022 .

Full details and application form

IAS Workshops and Fellowships

Ias workshops.

The Institute of Advanced Studies and Institute for Global Innovation are pleased to make support available to University of Birmingham researchers to bring together expertise from across the breadth of our university. Workshop topics should be interdisciplinary and include substantial input from at least two Colleges. Consideration should be given to what might eventually be the benefits to UoB in terms of engagement, impact, high quality publications and grant income generation.

How to apply To apply for a Workshop, please complete the  IAS Workshop Proposal Form . 

Deadlines 8 January; 12 February; 11 March; 13 May; 10 June; 2 September; 14 October; 11 November 2024

IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellows

This programme aims to attract outstanding researchers, operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines, to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Birmingham. We hope to support new collaborations on topics that are timely, relevant, address national and international priorities, and cross disciplinary boundaries. Fellows are normally expected to spend a period of between 4 and 8 weeks on campus, depending on the panel’s assessment of the proposed activity. We particularly welcome visits that enable new, rather than already established collaborations. Consideration should be given to what might eventually be the benefits to UoB in terms of engagement, impact, high quality publications and grant income generation.

Proposing an IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellow Please complete the IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellow Proposal Form .

IAS Vanguard Visiting Fellows

This programme aims to attract outstanding early and mid-career researchers, operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines, to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Birmingham. We hope to support new collaborations on topics that are timely, relevant, address national and international priorities, and cross disciplinary boundaries. Fellows are normally expected to spend a period of between 4 and 8 weeks on campus, depending on the panel’s assessment of the proposed activity. We particularly welcome visits that enable new, rather than already established collaborations. Consideration should be given to what might eventually be the benefits to UoB in terms of engagement, impact, high quality publications and grant income generation.

Proposing an IAS Vanguard Visiting Fellow: Please complete the IAS Vanguard Visiting Fellow Proposal Form .

More information

Please contact Sue Gilligan if you have questions about these programmes.

Institutional Research England QR Funding

Internal grants up to a maximum of £100,000 are available to support research culture, research that informs policy, and participatory research.  Eligible research projects must deliver and spend during the period 1 January 2023 to 1 June 2024. Three different funding streams are available and applications are invited on a short online application form which should be submitted by  5pm Friday 4 November .

Find out more about Institutional Research England QR funding

MRC Proximity to Discovery

The MRC Proximity to Discovery and Impact Fund (P2D) aims to support individual mobility and discovery days to enable early engagement with industry as well as other non-commercial partners such as charities. In addition, the P2D scheme supports proof of principle projects with collaborators that could accelerate the translational potential of your work.

In contrast to previous MRC P2D rounds, the scope of the fund has been broadened to include non-commercial partners and projects/activities with a clear translational impact such as patient benefit or knowledge exchange. All work supported by the P2D fund should be aligned to biomedical science areas of interest to the MRC, as stated on the  MRC website .

There are several streams within P2D:

Rapid Response Mobility (RRM)

RRM supports flexible funding requests for individual mobility to enable early engagement with industry or non-commercial partners. Researchers may visit partners anywhere in the world for face-to-face meetings to pursue early interactions.  

Up to £2,000 per project. RRM is an open call with no submission deadlines.

Knowledge Exchange & Dissemination (KE&D)

KE&D can support a discovery day seminar programme on discoveries, technologies and methodologies to transfer knowledge between academic institutions and commercial or non-commercial partners, to inspire new collaborations.

Up to £2,000 per activity. K&ED is a competitive funding call with quarterly deadlines.

Exchange & Explore (E&E)

E&E supports flexible interactions with businesses, industrial or non-commercial partners that could accelerate the translational potential of your work and support longer-term relationships, through delivery of short term, initial proof of principle work around mutual areas of interest.

Up to £6,000 per project. E&E is a competitive funding call with quarterly deadlines.

How to Apply

Read the Guidance before applying to any stream

Download the RRM Application

Download the KE&D Application Form

Download the E&E Application Form

KE&D and E&E : The next s ubmission deadline: 12 noon, Wednesday 28th February 2024

RRM: Open call

The P2D institutional fund is managed by the Translational Research Team, part of the MDS Research Office. General enquiries should be directed to [email protected] .

Find out more about translational research at Birmingham

Birmingham International Engagement Fund (BIEF)

The Birmingham International Engagement Fund (BIEF) offers travel awards to facilitate collaboration with international partners. Further information about the scheme and details about how to apply can be found on the Birmingham Global intranet pages .

UK Funding schemes for major projects 

• Research England Development (RED) Fund  – please see our  Internal Guidance
• Strength in Places Fund
• UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF)
• Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund 

For more information on major funding schemes or support with bid development for large and complex research projects please  contact us .

Funding for EU and international projects

The EU&I team ( [email protected] ) are responsible for providing specialist support for applying (pre-award) and delivering (post-award) European and International funded projects. This includes EU funding from Horizon Europe  and  international routes to funding . The team also host funding workshops and webinars that offer more specific guidance and information.  

Visit the EU and International web pages

Funding for interdisciplinary activities

The Institute of Advanced Studies and Institute for Global Innovation are pleased to make support available to University of Birmingham researchers via:

Workshops aiming to bring together expertise from across the breadth of our university.

Fellowships to attract outstanding researchers from outside of the University who are operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Birmingham. 

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20/20 project.

Birmingham Museums Trust is partner on the University of the Arts London Decolonising Arts Institute 20/20 project: an ambitious 3-year programme combining artist residencies with artistic commissioning at scale, funded by funding from Freelands Foundation, Arts Council England and UAL. 20/20 is bringing together 20 emerging artists of colour and 20 UK public art collections, leading to 20 new permanent acquisitions. BMT will be taking part in the second tranche of residencies, with artist applications opening in January 2023.

Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage

We are also working with University of the Arts London Decolonising Arts Institute as part of ‘Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage’ . Transforming Collections is a 3-year project led by Dr usan pui san lok, UAL Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Decolonising Arts Institute. It’s 1 of 5 national Discovery Projects announced by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in September 2021 as part of Towards a National Collection (TaNC): a 5-year research and development programme harnessing the potential of new technology to dissolve barriers between collections.

Combining critical art historical and museological research with participatory machine learning design, this research seeks to enable online cross-search of collections, surface patterns of bias and uncover hidden connections, to generate new narratives around art, nation and heritage. Its aims are to surface suppressed histories, amplify marginalised voices and re-evaluate artists and artworks ignored or sidelined by dominant narratives. And to begin to imagine a distributed yet connected evolving ‘national collection’ that builds on and enriches existing knowledge, with multiple and multivocal narratives.

The Congruence Engine: Digital Tools for New Collections-Based Industrial Histories

Birmingham Museums Trust is a partner on ‘The Congruence Engine: digital tools for new collections-based industrial histories’ . This three-year project led by Dr Tim Boon at the Science Museum Group is one of the five Discovery Projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World fund . The project aims to use the latest digital techniques to connect industrial history collections held in different locations. Over the three years, project co-investigators and partner organisations will participate in explorations of their textiles, energy and communications collections. Through these iterative research cycles, project participants will use both traditional ‘hand-stitching’ research tools and experiment with new computational and AI techniques to develop a digital toolbox for historians and curators to use to explore the connections and congruences within the distributed national industrial collection. Due to the strengths of Birmingham’s collection, our involvement in the project will be particularly focused on the energy and communications research strands. You can follow the Congruence Engine blog for updates as the project progresses.

Race, Empire & the Pre-Raphaelites

Race, Empire & the Pre-Raphaelites is a research group of the British Art Network, founded in 2020. Led by Victoria Osborne at BMT, Kate Nichols at the University of Birmingham and Sabrina Rahman at the University of Exeter, the group brings together museum workers, academics and artists to explore the global contexts of Victorian art and design, particularly in relation to ideologies of Orientalism and Empire. It uses Birmingham's rich collections as a starting point for broader conversations about how Victorian art and design might be explored with and for contemporary museum audiences.

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SMART Schools: S martphones, social M edia and A dolescent mental wellbeing: the impact of school policies R estricting day T ime use

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Research projects

First time mothers' expectations and experiences of postnatal care in england.

Analysing the expectations and realities of postnatal care in England, in order to identify areas for attention and improvement. 

Evaluation of MR imaging to predict neurodevelopmental impairment in preterm infants

MRI scans can be used to predict neurodevelopmental impairments in preterm infants. Birmingham City University conduct...

Pregnant women’s experiences and perceptions of early-onset fetal growth restriction

Fetal growth restriction is a serious complication responsible for 30% of stillbirths. The EVERREST programme aims to ...

Researching the experience of families with twins or triplets

Exploring the experiences of mothers and families with twins or triplets to assess their care needs.  

Making mothers: feasibility study

The Making Mothers project concerns the analysis and development of novel antenatal care strategies to improve the hea...

Holding children and young people for clinical procedures

Analysing holding techniques (which involve keeping patients still during invasive treatment or examination) within th...

EMPiRE: Antiepileptic Drug Management in Pregnancy

Managing epilepsy while pregnant can be distressing and potentially harmful, which is why many opt to use  anti-epile...

Communicating endometriosis: health professionals' experiences

Endometriosis is a painful condition  affecting 1.6 million women in the UK and this study explores the perspectives ...

Plan UK Menstruation: Let’s talk. Period

This project aims to combat period poverty my researching and producing  resources that advance knowledge in the mens...

Preventing recurrence of endometriosis by means of long-acting progestogen therapy

Endometriosis is a painful condition and many sufferers require surgery to remove  areas of endometriosis in order to...

Reducing endometriosis and preventing sepsis at caesarean section

This project assessed the feasibility of introducing new procedures in routine caesarean sections, which may reduce th...

Barriers to Return of Home Sampling Kits for Sexually Transmitted Infections Requested Online: A Qualitative Study

Exploring the factors behind falling rates of STI home test kit returns in Birmingham and Solihull.

Inclusivity within ‘femtech’: Period tracking apps and chronic health conditions

Birmingham City University researchers are embarking on a project to increase inclusivity in femtech apps by analysing...

Period Dramas: what works within menstrual health education?

In response to the introduction of nationwide Menstrual Health Education (MHE) in the UK, BCU researchers are investig...

Bridging patient-practitioner research boundaries

To identify how, when and in what context patient-practitioners-researcher boundaries have been crossed in knowledge m...

Using knowledge mobilisation theory to address maternal obesity in Birmingham

The number of pregnant women classed as obese continues to rise across the globe. Using a range of innovative techniqu...

Exploration of the concept of clinical academic careers in general practice nursing

Health professionals involved in academia are essential, but understaffed. This project aims to unravel why such a vit...

Eczema Mindlines

The Eczema Mindlines project provides a range of videos, conferences, workshops and more to provide sufferers with the...

PrisDem: Enhancing dementia care and support in prison populations

Critically analysing the dementia care provision in the UK prison service.

Understanding cultural beliefs and dementia

Increasing our understanding of the spiritual and cultural beliefs around dementia to develop a nursing curriculum tha...

Supporting multiple birth families

 This study aims to provide  contemporary evidence to support the development of policy, HV education and service pro...

Recognising dementia

This research  explored family carers’ and professional carers’ experiences of pre-clinical dementia in the people they...

Investigating burnout in nursing home nurses

With a worldwide shortage of nurses and a large proportion of dementia sufferers based in nursing homes, this project e...

Nursing support for South Asian carers of dementia patients

This qualitative study explores the experiences and perspectives of nurses who provide support to South Asian carers of...

How do registered health and social care practitioners change their practice post Mental Capacity Act training?

Identifying training strategies and determining how registered health and social care practitioners change their pract...

Exploring experiences of online peer support for newly qualified nurses

With newly-qualified nurses often succumbing to stress and questioning their choice of career, this research project ai...

Innovate Dignity

Innovate Dignity is a trans-national network that aims to deliver a shared, world-leading research and training progra...

The impact of social distancing and isolation on the elderly during COVID-19

Professor Joanne Brooke and Dr Maria Clark are researching the effects of social isolation on the elderly.

Periods in a Pandemic: how UK period poverty initiatives are mitigating Covid-19 related challenges

This project explores how period poverty initiatives have been mitigating the negative effects of coronavirus in order...

The experiences and expectations of trainee nursing associates

Identifying the different healthcare settings and specialities supporting the trainee nursing associate role.

The impact of Covid-19 on care home staff

With Covid-19 continuing to affect social care, how has the pandemic impacted - both professionally and personally - t...

PrisNurS: Student nurse’s lived experience of a clinical placement in a prison setting

Exploring the experiences of student nurses who are assigned clinical placements in prison settings in order to suppor...

An Evaluation of the Women’s Health Network in Bradford

The project aims to evaluate and advise the Women's Health Network in Bradford, a collective of women who strive to imp...

From Meghan Markle to Endometriosis… We don’t believe women

March is Endometriosis (endo) Awareness Month .  Dr Annalise Weckesser , Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City Uni...

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Limited Submission Opportunity: Brain Research Foundation 2025 Scientific Innovations Award Grant

URL: https://www.thebrf.org/scientific-innovations-award/  

OBJECTIVES :

The objective of the program is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high impact findings and result in major grant applications and funding as well as significant publications in high impact journals.

FUNDING INFORMATION :

Each total award is limited to $150,000 (direct costs) for a two-year grant period. Exact dates will be provided by the BRF upon application approval. The first grant payment of $75,000 will be made upon completion of the SIA Acceptance Form. The final payment of $75,000 will be made contingent upon receipt of a Preliminary Progress and Financial Report. Funds must be utilized within the grant period.

ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS :

To be eligible, the nominee must be a  full-time associate professor/full professor  working in the area of neuroscience and brain function in health and disease. Current major NIH or other peer-reviewed funding is preferred but evidence of such funding in the past three years is essential.

INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:

Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by DATE: 4/29/2024

• Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application;
• A brief statement (up to 2 pages) by the candidate describing their scientific achievements and proposed project including mention of relevant NIH/peer-reviewed funding;
• A brief budget outline for the proposed research ;
• Up-to-date CV or biosketch.

A faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review internal proposals and select nominees. Foundation Relations will work with the nominees to develop and submit the institutional nomination letter and applicant materials by 6/25/2024.

Internal Materials Due: Monday, April 29, 2024 Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Intent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Sponsor’s Deadline for Full Application: Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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