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

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)