Research information for staff

If you need help with research funding, please contact us.

Academic information and publications

• Academic profiles on websites
• Birkbeck experts' database
• BIROn: Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

Consultancy

• Research consultancy: information that will help you to determine if the work you plan to undertake is consultancy and provides you with details of the support and guidance available to you.

External research funding for staff

• Funders - see our funder presentations
• Funding deadlines
• UK funding
• European Union funding
• Research funding database
• How to apply for funding
• Wellcome Trust / Birkbeck ISSF (Institutional Strategic Support Fund)
• Calculating your budget
• The budget and full economic costing (including link to pFACT)
• Costing salaries
• What funders will pay
• VAT and research
• Guidance on writing applications
• How to apply for research funding (all applications need to go through this process)
• Advice on writing good research applications
• How to write a justification of resources
• pFACT – Birkbeck’s costing and approval system for research applications
• Calculating your budget using pFACT
• Approval of applications using pFACT
• What to do if your application for research funding is successful
• Acceptance of awards
• Contract negotiations
• Setting up new awards
• Account codes
• Managing your research award
• Appointing staff
• Responsibilities of award holders
• RGCO responsibilities
• What research projects are we running?
• Success rates
• Current research projects
• Contact the RGCO for help

Impact

• School impact officers
• 'Seed corn' funding for impact development
• Top tips for developing your research impact

information for early-career researchers

• Birkbeck is committed to supporting postdoctoral and early career fellowships, and is keen to consider eligible applications from suitable PhD students and early career researchers of post-doctoral standing, whether or not they have a current affiliation with the College.
• If you need help with any aspect of applying for a post-doctoral fellowship, please contact us.

Intellectual property

• What is Intellectual Property?
• IP in research agreements
• Developing and exploiting IP
• Invention ownership guidance

Libraries

• Birkbeck library
• Birkbeck Electronic library
• British library
• Other libraries
• University of London library access

Online research resources

• Databases and online resources
• Google Scholar

Open access

• Open Access – research funders' policies and funding

Public engagement

• Public engagement at Birkbeck
• Research impact - top tips

Research definitions and policies

• Research policies
• Definition of research (HEFCE and HESA definitions)
• Research data management
• Research integrity and ethics

Research grants and contracts reports

• Success rates by department
• Current research projects

Research websites (Birkbeck)

• Birkbeck Voices podcasts
• Birkbeck research blog
• Research at Birkbeck website
• Research centres and institutes
• School and department websites (each of which has a section dealing with research)