RKEO Support for Funding
Support with funding for Research and Knowledge Exchange activities comes from the Research Development Team and the Collaboration Team. Find out more about the RKEO Team.
Below are some introductions to the ways the Research Development Team can help you, and similar insights from the Collaboration Team will be available later this term. These videos and ideas are intended to be starting points for conversations with us or with your academic colleagues, so please do get in touch with the team with any questions.
Find Funding Opportunities with Research Professional
University of Westminster has a subscription to Research Professional and all staff are able to use it free of charge. It is the UK’s most comprehensive source of up-to-date information on available research funding opportunities. It’s the benchmark for such databases and is used by the majority of UK universities
This video explores the funding landscape for practice-based or practice-led research. The accompanying Funding Practice Research slides are available.
This video outlines some different types of funding and where you might find opportunities relevant to you.
The Demystifying Types of External Research Funding slides are available.
This video explores the different kinds of collaboration that you might involve yourself with, discusses the benefits of collaboration and seeks to familiarise you with approaches to successfully doing so.
This video provides an introduction to research fellowships, outlining who they are for, how they might benefit your career and where you can look for the right opportunity for you.
This video considers the process of applying for research grants from the funder’s perspective, identifying their priorities and seeking to increase your confidence in embedding those priorities in your work and highlighting the significance of you work to a prospective funding body.
This video explores what the new Government Research and Development Roadmap is, explores some of the key points to emerge from it, and looks to highlight where it may impact your work.
The Government’s Research and Development Roadmap slides are available.
This video outlines how KTPs work in practice, what the benefits of the initiative are for a range of stakeholders, talks through the application process and explains the internal support structures at Westminster for helping you through the partnership.
This first session of our new Grant Writing Programme looks to give an overview of some main funders and their priorities.
This second session of our new Grant Writing Programme considers approaches to collaboration, explores stakeholder engagement strategies and embedding impact into your research work.
This video explores the case for support; what it’s purpose is, what funders look for in it, and some approaches you might look to embed into your practice. This was the third session in this year’s Grant Writing Group.
This fourth meeting of the grant writing group outlined approaches to managing your data and what you must bear in mind when costing your research project.