Research support 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
Business services
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.
Courses / training / support
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
- What to do if your application for research funding is successful
- Managing your research award
- What research projects are we running?
- 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
Open access
Public engagement
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
HR Excellence in Research Award
- The HR Excellence in Research Award measures the College's progress towards the implementation of the Concordat to support the career development of researchers. It also looks to use an action plan methodology, to improve the College's research environment by implementing changes that are driven from the research base. Details of the process followed to devise the action plan are given in the executive summary (on the action plan).
- Birkbeck is applying the Concordat’s broad definition of researchers to the Award process - 'postgraduate [PhD] students, research-only employees on short-term projects, part-time staff, lecturers and professors with a range of duties, including research' - to ensure that it implements improvements to the environment of all those undertaking research and, also, to support excellence in research holistically.
- The whole process will be managed and overseen by an Academic Advisory Board, to ensure that the needs of researchers remain at the heart of the process. The Academic Advisory Board will meet on a termly basis and will report to the College formally once per year, via the HR Strategy and Policy Committee (HRSPC), and informally on a termly basis. (These reports will also be passed to Research Committee for information.) Read the Terms of Reference for this group. The College is keen to use the Academic Advisory Board as a developmental opportunity for colleagues who have not had much experience with committee work.
- This governance structure for the Award both embeds it within our current structures and processes and includes mechanisms to access all Schools and relevant Professional Service departments.
- Read the HR Excellence in Research action plan.
- Read about current HR policies and procedures.