It’s time for the second installment of our FUNDamentals series! These 2 page briefs will provide all the foundations you need to get acquainted with funder priorities, tips, keys schemes and other useful insights. A committed philanthropist throughout his life, when he died in 1925 Lord Leverhulme left a proportion of his holdings in Lever …
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Membership of the AHRC Peer Review College, as well as making an important contribution to the AHRC’s peer review processes, provides benefits to individuals, departments and higher education institutions. Professor Andrew Linn, Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Westminster described his time on the AHRC Peer Review college as “a great way of staying …
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One of the ways in which members of staff engaged in research can actively contribute to their community is by serving on the University of Westminster Research Committee. Currently representatives from the Readers and Professors, as well as Doctoral Researcher cohorts have positions on Research Committee. We are now seeking a representative to join the Research Committee from the early/mid-career researcher cohort. …
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If you have read our earlier blog post regarding the EU Funding Workshop organised by the Research Development team back in May you will know that one of the speakers was Malgorzata Czerwiec, UKRO European Advisor. Malgorzata’s presentation on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2019-20 is now available to watch here. Since this video was recorded topics …
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The Research Development Team have been busy talking to senior academics within each school to map the relevant disciplines at Westminster to a bespoke funding alert for each School. Alerts will go out every Friday and will include key funding opportunities for the school’s disciplines. You can now receive these email alerts direct to your …
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The University of Westminster have launched our internal call for Round 4 of the Future Leaders Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation. We are welcoming both internal and external applicants, UK or international, who can demonstrate an outstanding track record and potential to develop their careers at Westminster. The support of the institution will be a …
Photo by Jo Szczepanska on Unsplash The first in our FUNDamentals series is now out! These 2 page briefs will provide all the foundations you need to get aquainted with Funder priorities, tips, keys schemes and other useful insights. The British Academy is a key funder for research in the humanities and social sciences, providing grants and fellowships …
The Research Development team held an EU Funding Workshop on 20th May 2019. It was very successful in bringing together staff from diverse research communities and discovering commonalities around their expertise and the Societal Challenge (SC) calls for Horizon 2020 funding. The intent was to stimulate conversation around the topics, regardless ultimately of whether a …
Welcome to the Research Office blog! We hope you will become a regular visitor as we plan to utilise this space to showcase all the news and developments in relation to funding, research development and other topics of interest to our fabulous Westminster research community. So, what can you expect from the Research Office in …