Research support for staff

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

Business services 

• Business Services at Birkbeck 

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

• Bite-sized guide to being a PI: These one-hour lunch time sessions for existing and prospective PIs have been designed to support PIs in their role. The sessions will be very interactive and involve experienced PI as well as specialists from around the College discussing the key elements of the role of a PI. The aim of these workshops is to raise awareness of the role of the PI and to also facilitate cross-college peer networking. More details and to book onto an event can be found on Business World.

External research funding for staff

• The Research Office offers expert guidance and support to Birkbeck's diverse community of researchers, at all levels and career stages.

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 elibrary 
• Birkbeck Institutional Research Online (BIROn) 
• Birkbeck Library 
• Birkbeck Research Data (BiRD) 
• British Library 
• Library resources for your area of research 
• Obtaining material from other libraries  
• Other libraries 
• Research support library guide 
• Software packages for managing your references 
• Subject librarians and how they can help 
• University of London library access 
• Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (September 2011) 

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