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Grants Factory Costing a Proposal: What Can I Include? 1 November 12:00-14:00 Rutherford LT2 Sometimes costing a grant application can seem like a dark art, full of unfamiliar terms, complex algorithms, and strange exclusions. This session aims to demystify the … Continue reading →

This week the ESRC launched a new call as part of the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Fund. This call will support innovative, interdisciplinary research that is focused on new ways to tackle the challenges encountered at the intersections between poverty, … Continue reading →

Applying to Arts Council England – Thursday 20 October 1.00 – 2.30 – venue tba Led by Jon Linstrum (Arts Council England – Manager, Combined Arts) this 90 minute workshop will be of interest to anyone planning an application to … Continue reading →

Are you interested or have applied for British Academy research funding before? If so, please come and join the lunch time workshop on the 19th October led by Jack Caswell, Assistant Head of Research Awards, from British Academy. Jack is … Continue reading →

We’ve almost finalised the programme of Grants Factory and Early Career Researcher Network events for 2016/17.  More details will be available soon, and a full listing will be in Research Active, which will go out in mid-October. The first event … Continue reading →

The government has launched a significant new funding stream, the Global Challenges Research Fund. The GCRF offers a five year, £1.5bn programme. To find out more and link up with others at the University with similar or complementary interests, I would … Continue reading →

A number of colleagues have asked about how the Referendum result affects the UK’s ability to access European research funding, Horizon 2020. The UK is still a member state, and will remain so until the Article 50 negotiations are completed, … Continue reading →

Given Kent’s ambitious target of doubling research income by 2020, the University recognises that it needs to do everything necessary to remove or reduce, wherever possible, barriers or disincentives that may prevent this. One such are the central charges levied … Continue reading →

Clock Tower Lecture Theatre CT102 Lecture Theatre https://www.kent.ac.uk/timetabling/rooms/room.html?room=CTLT We are planning a Medway Research Network meeting on the 9th June. It’s been a couple of years since we last had a networking lunch and since then there have been many … Continue reading →

  Following the two previous GROW events that focussed on the Newton Fund and Japanese Research Funding, the third in the series will look closer to home, at funding available from the EC. Every year we host a visit by … Continue reading →