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Develop your ideas

  • Develop your ideas overview

Find partners and collaborators

  • Find partners and collaborators overview
  • Cross-school and interdisciplinary initiatives

Plan for impact

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

Find research funding

  • Find research 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
  • 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

About

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Events

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Research Office Bulletin

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  • Develop your ideas

    Develop your ideas

    Develop your ideas overview
    • Find partners and collaborators
    • Plan for impact
  • Find research funding

    Find research funding

    Find research funding overview
    • External funding
    • Internal funding
    • Working with a new funder
    • Research funder relationships
  • Prepare an application

    Prepare an application

    Prepare an application overview
    • Eligibility and deadlines
    • Application support
    • Write your proposal
    • 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
    • Audits
    • Conflicts of interest
    • Contracts
    • Due diligence
    • DORA
    • Export control
    • Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs
    • Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS)
    • Nagoya Protocol
    • NSI Act (National Security and Investment Act)
    • Personal data
    • Research ethics
    • Security-sensitive research material
    • Trusted research
    • Worktribe risk assessment
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Training

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

Training

There are a number of training opportunities for researchers, including internal and external training courses.

Worktribe training

Access Worktribe guidance and support.

Research integrity training

Where to access training on research integrity

Research ethics training

Courses and resources to help you learn about research ethics.

Export control training

Where to learn more about export control.

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