The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office have prepared a number of useful quick guides for applying to various funders and for certain activities. These include the processes and procedures that need to be followed at BU. You can access these either through the link above to the home page or by hovering over the ‘Research Toolkit’ menu option on the blog and all options will appear under the ‘Quick Guides to Funding and other useful information’.
For a sneak preview of the individual funder or activity guidance, please click on the links below.
Quick guide to funders:
Quick guide to activities:
For further information on these guides, funding opportunties, activities and how we can help you, please contact the RKEO Funding Development Team.
Quick guides have been updated
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