£11K funding available for White Rose Consortium academics

The White Rose consortium have announced that the Spring 2019 call for Collaboration Fund is now open.

The objective of the Fund is to support and encourage emerging collaborations across the White Rose Consortium (University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York) and in particular to support projects which have the potential to lead to larger more strategic initiatives.

The White Rose Executive Board regularly reviews the Funds progress and has recognised the value of these collaborations in supporting emerging activities by funding two calls per year.

Applications are encouraged from staff in areas where there are no existing collaborations between the White Rose Universities. However this does not exclude existing areas of collaboration between the universities where support might lead to enhanced activity and significant funding opportunities.

Project Support and Reporting

  • Each project must have a value between £8-11k
  • Successful projects will be allocated a Collaboration Development Manager from the White Rose team who will work with the collaboration to help support securing further funding and assist in helping the project to achieve its goals.
  • The collaboration will be given a project page on the White Rose website which can be used to highlight the activity being undertaken by the group. It is hoped that this will provide an external face to the project which will aid both in the dissemination of project achievements but also demonstrate successful collaboration for potential future funders.
  • The project lead will be asked to provide progress reports at 12 months, the project end.

Application Criteria

The eligibility criteria are set out below:

  • Each application must include a minimum of two members of staff (post doctoral researchers are eligible) per institution, with a lead member of academic staff identified at each University. The partners need to identify an agreed lead academic/University as having overall responsibility for the project.
  • Applications must include participants from all three Universities.
  • All applications must be either in an area of demonstrable funding opportunity which applicants should evidence in their submission (e.g. by reference to the strategic priorities of research funders and any upcoming calls), or should be in an emerging area of research which applicants can demonstrate will be strategically important in the near future.
  • Collaboration Fund projects should use the funding within a 12 month period following award
  • Costs eligible for inclusion in the project are those directly incurred on project activities. No payment will be made for academic staff time or indirect costs.
  • Applicants will be required to demonstrate how working collaboratively across the three Universities will add significant value and why the proposed project is timely.
  • The project proposals should include information on how the success of the project will be measured and what will be the short, medium and long term outputs.

To download an application form or learn more about White Rose, visit their website here