1. David Young (Research Funding & Policy Manager)
Research and Business Services
Finding Funding for Pedagogic
Research
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2. Here’s the plan…
Finding Funding with Research
Professional: what it is,
registration, funding searches,
personalised email alerts
Sources of Funding for Pedagogic
Research: selection of funders and
case studies
3. Finding funding with Research
Professional
Go to:
http://researchprofessional.com
Register
Log in
Basic overview
Funding search
Advanced search
Set up email alerts
4. Register for our next event
Finding Research Funding
9th
July, 2pm
Book via Donna Smith
(donna.c.smith@northumbria.ac.uk)
5. Funds research in Higher Education
policy and practice
Prize for Newer Researchers
£3K
Support of senior SRHE mentor
Closed in 2013
Annual Research Awards
Up to £10K
HE Policy, HE and Society, HE in
Practice
Up to £5K for scoping awards
Open 1st
July – 1st
September
Society for Research into
Higher Education
6. Case Study: Dr Saranne Weller, KCL
“…students as co-developers of learning
and teaching: redefining expertise and
student voice through student
participation in professional
development.”
This Scoping award in 2012 followed an
SRHE New Researcher Award in 2008
Networks – Newer Researchers
Dr Weller is one of the convenors of
this group
Society for Research into
Higher Education
7. Small Development Projects
Up to £10K per project
Last round: 10 funded of 46 applications
Wider remit than just pedagogical research
Examples:
The experiences of innovators in learning and
teaching
How can we promote a greater mutual
appreciation and understanding between
students, academics and professional service
staff?
Leadership Foundation for HE
8. Funds research in social sciences and
humanities
Small Research Grants
£500 - £10,000 for up to 2 years
Only funds direct costs
Relatively straightforward app form
Next round open Sept – Nov 2013
British Academy/Leverhulme Trust
9. Case study: Dr Nalita James, Leicester
“…investigating the learning transitions of
Access to HE students”
Case study: Dr John Jerrim, IoE
“…investigating socio-economic differences
in HE: a cross-national comparison”
Case study: Dr Marie Stowell, Worcester
“…investigating student academic failure
and reassessment: policy and practice in
UK Higher Education”
British Academy/Leverhulme Trust
10. Catalyst Fund
Larger scale, strategic proposals
Key themes include:
Student Engagement
Enhancement of Teaching & Learning
Student participation and success
Knowledge exchange (inc. student
entrepreneurship)
Need institutional buy-in
Iterative application with guidance
from HEFCE consultants
HEFCE
As I said earlier, I used Research Professional to find funders for this presentation. The University subscribes to Research Professional, it is a comprehensive research news and funding database which also sends personalised email alerts to registered users. All research active members of staff should set up an account. You can access this from a PC on campus without a password, as a guest, but you won’t be able to save any searches or set up your email alert. You can also set up your own registration, which means that you can save searches and use them to set up a targeted email alert based around your areas of interest. We don’t have time to demo Research Professional in this session, so if anyone is interested we can run a little demo after the presentation or you can get in touch with either myself or David I’m now going to hand over to David who will show you how to link to Research Professional from the Northumbria Research Support Blog.
The Society for Research into Higher Education is a UK-based international learned society which is interested in advancing understanding of higher education, through research and scholarship. Each year the Society invites applications from Newer Researchers to enter a research proposal for a small scale project. The successful SRHE prize winner receives a number of benefits from the Society in addition to the prize money awarded to fund the selected project. Entry is open to all and not restricted to current SRHE Members. There are 2 prizes of £3,000 available for a research project of one year’s duration. These awards are intended to provide support for early stage researchers in the field of higher education research to enable them to: undertake a research project in their own right develop research skills which will help advance their research career
The Society for Research into Higher Education is a UK-based international learned society which is interested in advancing understanding of higher education, through research and scholarship. Each year the Society invites applications from Newer Researchers to enter a research proposal for a small scale project. The successful SRHE prize winner receives a number of benefits from the Society in addition to the prize money awarded to fund the selected project. Entry is open to all and not restricted to current SRHE Members. There are 2 prizes of £3,000 available for a research project of one year’s duration. These awards are intended to provide support for early stage researchers in the field of higher education research to enable them to: undertake a research project in their own right develop research skills which will help advance their research career
