BU Research Blog

With more sunny days across Dorset last and this week, we are all very close to summer holiday season. There are more than 120 external funding applications the Funding Development Team is currently supporting and I wanted to share some good news.

I am sure, BU academic community will welcome our new members of staff – lovely ladies Kate Percival and Jo Schofield.

Kate recently started as Research Facilitator for Life Sciences, Jo started last week as Funding Development Officer supporting Faculty of Media and Communication. They both are ongoing internal training and, we believe, they will be able to fully settle in during next coming months.

From 1st June, our new Funding Development Manager Peng Peng Hatch will also start in her new role. More details regarding FDT staff you may find here.

As you know, from August 2022 Research Facilitators changed their activity from supporting faculties to funder-focus. This way of working has already shown that RDS is able to deliver better quality of support to increase quality of proposals. As a reminder, here is the list of funders supported by each Research Facilitator:

Life Sciences – Kate Percival

• National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
• Medical Research Council (MRC – UKRI)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC – UKRI)
• Wellcome Trust

Humanities and Social Sciences – Eva Papadopoulou

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC – UKRI)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC – UKRI)
• The British Academy
• The Leverhulme Trust
• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) central funding (i.e., not targeted to a specific research council)

Innovation and Infrastructure – Zarak Afzal

• Innovate UK
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC – UKRI)
• The Royal Society
• Research England (UKRI)
• Major infrastructure funds

EU and International – Ainar Blaudums

• Horizon Europe (European Union) including
  • European Research Council
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
  • Pillar Two – Societal Challenges (collaborative projects)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH – US)
• Other major international funding opportunities
• BU admin for EU and US (sam.gov) submission systems