Research Funding

How To Write a Good Funding Application

The ESRC website offers some helpful guidance, much of which is applicable to all kinds of applications.

Copies of past successful funding applications from this School can be made available to staff members wishing to develop expertise in this area, please contact:

Keith Topping
E-mail: k.j.topping@dundee.ac.uk

Internal Sources

The School Research Committee will consider requests for modest funding to support pilot or pump-priming schemes which might lead to more substantial research projects. The School also offers a limited number of student bursaries, which can be used to in a very flexible way to recruit or sustain a person to act as a Research Assistant while studying for a higher research degree. These are offered for defined areas of work linked to School priorities.

The Associate Dean Research (Keith Topping) welcomes informal enquiries from staff about research funding, and will facilitate links with the central university Research & Innovation Services. However, staff should first explore some of the sources below.

External Sources

If you find a broken link or have a suggestion for an additional link, please report it to Keith Topping.

• Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB)
• Association of Commonwealth Universities
• Association of Medical Research Charities
• British Academy
• British Council
• Caledonian Research Foundation
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• Carnegie Trust
• Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
• Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Executive Health Department)
• Churchill Memorial Trust
• Communities Scotland
• Community of Science (subscription required)
• Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
• Department of Health - Research & Development (also for social work)
• Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Eduserv
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• European Commission on Education and Training
• Ford Foundation (includes international fellowships)
• Foundation Center (U.S.)
• Fulbright Commission (US-UK Exchange)
• Funds for Women Graduates
• Great Britain China Centre (funding for students from & collaboration with China)
• HERO (HE & Research Opportunities + RAE results)
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Learning and Teaching Scotland
• Leverhulme Trust
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• National Centre for Social Research (more producer than funder)
• National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Nuffield Foundation
• Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme
• ResearchResearch (subscription required)
• Royal Society
• Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
• Scholarship Search UK (scholarship & bursary search)
• Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF)
• Scottish Funding Council (SFC)
• Scottish Government, Education Analytical Services Division
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) (EU)
• Social Care Institute for Excellence
• Spencer Foundation
• Teacher Training Agency (search by "research grant")
• Tenovus Scotland
• UK Fundraising
• UK Sponsorship Database
• UKRO UK Research Office - EU research & HE
• Wellcome Trust
• World Bank