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Plan for impact

  • Plan for impact overview
  • Business engagement
  • Commercialisation
  • Policy engagement
  • Public engagement

Find funding

  • Find funding overview
  • External funding
  • Working with a new funder
  • Research funder relationships

Internal funding

  • Internal funding overview
  • BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Award (FTMA)
  • UKRI Impact acceleration accounts

Prepare an application

  • Prepare an application overview
  • Costing and pricing
  • Submit your application

Eligibility and deadlines

  • Eligibility and deadlines overview
  • Frascati definition of research
  • PrincipaI Investigator (PI) eligibility
  • College Employees PI Eligibility (CTOs)
  • Small applications process
  • Late applications process

Application support

  • Application support overview
  • Bid Preparation Fund
  • Large Grant Contributions Fund

Write your proposal

  • Write your proposal overview
  • Support statements from the Vice-Chancellor or Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research
  • Gender equality statement

Restricted calls

  • Restricted calls overview
  • Current restricted calls
  • Recurrent restricted calls
  • Restricted Bids Selection Committee
  • Awards and prizes

Manage a project

  • Manage a project overview
  • Accept and set up your award
  • Manage project finances
  • Timesheets
  • Change an award
  • Finish your project

Manage a European Commission project

  • Manage a European Commission project overview
  • Preparing and setting up an EC grant
  • Managing a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions project
  • Staff costs and timesheets for EC grants
  • Reporting for EC grants
  • Underwritten Horizon Europe grants
  • Equipment costs and depreciation for EC grants

Share your research

  • Share your research overview
  • Research outcomes and Researchfish

Manage risk

  • Manage risk overview
  • Due diligence
  • Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs
  • Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS)
  • NSI Act (National Security and Investment Act)
  • Personal data
  • Worktribe risk assessment

Audits

  • Audits overview
  • Types of audit and their triggers
  • General audit requirements
  • Financial audit of EC projects
  • Financial audit of Innovate UK grants
  • Single audit (for US federal grants)
  • UKRI FAP audit

Conflicts of interest

  • Conflicts of interest overview
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

Contracts

  • Contracts overview
  • Industry Pricing

DORA

  • DORA overview
  • Guidance on the responsible use of metrics in research assessment

Export control

  • Export control overview
  • Definitions
  • Exemptions
  • Export Control Classification Guidance
  • Digital learning and remote teaching
  • Publications and export controls
  • Travelling abroad
  • Exports to the EU
  • US export control
  • Further guidance
  • National Security Act 2023
  • Keeping up-to-date
  • Contacts
  • Export control training
  • Visitors and export control

Scope

  • Scope overview
  • Technology and software transfer

Nagoya Protocol

  • Nagoya Protocol overview
  • Nagoya ABS checklist
  • Checklist Part 1: decision tool
  • Checklist Part 2: store records
  • Checklist Part 3: prepare ABS request
  • Checklist Annex 1: glossary
  • Prepare a DEFRA due diligence declaration
  • ABS Clearing House Guidance

Research ethics

  • Research ethics overview
  • Ethics policies
  • University Research Ethics Committee (UREC)
  • Find your research ethics committee (REC contact list)
  • Is independent ethical review required? (flowchart)
  • Appeals procedure
  • Animal research

Preparing a research ethics application (resources)

  • Preparing a research ethics application (resources) overview
  • Human tissue
  • Overseas research
  • Basic principles
  • Consent forms and participant information sheets

Security-sensitive research material

  • Security-sensitive research material overview
  • Guidelines for accessing potentially security-sensitive research material
  • Storage and handling of security-sensitive research material

Trusted research

  • Trusted research overview
  • Trusted research checklist
  • Assessing the suitability of partners
  • Securely managing and sharing information
  • Commercial application of research
  • Travel and conferences
  • Legislation
  • Further information

Training

  • Training overview
  • Worktribe guidance
  • Research ethics training
  • Research integrity training

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    Develop your ideas

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    • Plan for impact
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    • Working with a new funder
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  • Prepare an application

    Prepare an application

    Prepare an application overview
    • Eligibility and deadlines
    • Application support
    • Write your proposal
    • Costing and pricing
    • Restricted calls
    • Submit your application
  • Manage a project

    Manage a project

    Manage a project overview
    • Accept and set up your award
    • Manage project finances
    • Manage a European Commission project
    • Timesheets
    • Change an award
    • Finish your project
    • Share your research
  • Manage risk

    Manage risk

    Manage risk overview
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    • Contracts
    • Due diligence
    • DORA
    • Export control
    • Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs
    • Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS)
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    • Personal data
    • Research ethics
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Research Grants User Group Meeting

12 Feb 2026 2:00pm to 3:00pm Research Grants User Group Meeting

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