1. Research Funding: What do we need to consider?
The Practice And Communication Of Science
John T. Hancock

2. Why do we need funding? Your final year project MSc/MRes PhD/DPhil
Post-doc
Research Fellows/Senior Fellows
Staff research
Someone needs to pay for it!

3. What do we spend funding on?
Staff costs – who?
Technical support
Consumables
Equipment
Travel
For the research
Conferences
Access charges
Collaborators

4. Let’s take PhD as an example?
You need to live (~£14K)
Accommodation
Travel
Food
Fun?
Consumables
All that you need, including animals, samples, chemicals…
Equipment
Do you need your own kit?
For the research
Conferences, national/international
Access charges
Borrowing anyone else’s kit?
Let’s think of a total here?...

5. Where are you going to get the money?
Your own?
University funding (internal)
Where do they get the money:- fees, overheads, REF?
Government
BBSRC
EPSRC
AHRC
Charities
Leverhulme Trust
Wellcome Trust
etc
Industry

6. Overheads? What are they and why?
Often calculated on total staff costs
100%?
BBSRC?
Wellcome Trust?

7. Funding for collaborations
Funding to make consortia
Travel
Meetings
Sending samples etc

8. How do I apply? Often sorted by departmental staff Fellowships
PhDs
Post-docs
Fellowships
Often individuals cannot apply
Professional bodies:- for travel
Most announce schemes
With guidelines
University approval schemes:- PASS

9. Let’s go back to PhD? Questions you may have?
Degree?
Masters?
How do I fund it?
Where do I do it?
When do I do it?
How long does it take?
FT or PT

10. Funding for Research
Any Questions?