Research Support

Research Funding Development Team

The Research Funding Development Team provides strategic pre-award research funding services which includes:

• Funding intelligence including advice on how to use RESEARCHConnect, the funding search tool
• Providing advice on developing your funding strategy, including fellowship suitability
• Lay review of your funding application and mock interviews 

Contact details:

Darren.airey@ncl.ac.uk

Additional Resources for Staff and Students

Pre-Award Costing Team

If you are applying for research funding, the Pre-Award Costing Team offers advice and guidance on:

• The grant application process
• Costing an application
• On-line grant portals such as JeS, NIHR and Wellcome Trust
• Securing internal approval from the Joint Research Office
• The peer review process

Contact details

FMS Schools: FMS-ESU.Researchsupport@ncl.ac.uk

NUBI: NUBI.Researchsupport@ncl.ac.uk

NUTCRI: NUTCRI.Researchsupport@ncl.ac.uk

NUPHSI: NUPHSI.Researchsupport@ncl.ac.uk

Additional Resources for Staff and Students

Ethics and Governance

If you are planning to undertake any research you must apply for ethical approval before work on the project begins. Resources offered by our University Research Governance Team include:

• Ethics toolkit
• Ethical review form
• Training opportunities

If you are planning research that will involve NHS facilities, staff, patients or data you will need NHS ethics approval. The faculty can offer advice and guidance on:

• Newcastle Sponsorship process
• NHSREC and HRA approval via the IRAS system

Contact details

FMSethics@ncl.ac.uk (non-clinical research)

Sponsorship@ncl.ac.uk (clinical research)

Find out more information on Ethics at Newcastle

Research Facilities

We have a broad range of biomedical and clinical research facilities run by highly trained and experienced staff that you can access. We can offer you access to:

• Top of the range equipment
• Specialist expertise
• Dedicated analytical and testing services.

Find out more about Biomedical Facilities.

Engagement

If you want to involve patients and the public in your research, the Faculty Engagement team can help you develop the skills to:

• Write Patient & Public Involvement (PPI), Engagement (PPE) and Participation (PPP) action plans and embed engagement in your research from an early stage
• Run your own meaningful PPI, PPE and PPP events and activities.

Contact details:

engagement@newcastle.ac.uk

Additional Resources for Staff and Students.

Research Impact

Our Faculty Research Impact Officer can help you develop the skills to:

• Write impact action plans and embed impact in your research from an early stage
• Identify opportunities to enhance and accelerate the impact of your research
• Advise on funding body requirements around research impact.

Contact details:

nefeli.karataraki@newcastle.ac.uk

Business Development and Enterprise

If you want to explore the commercialisation of your research, our Business Development and Enterprise Team can offer:

• Help to identify new opportunities for translation and commercialisation
• Support spin-out company development
• Advise on patenting and licencing your research outputs
• Help to identify and establish industry collaborations, contract research and consultancy

Contact details
Email: geraint.lewis@ncl.ac.uk

Additional Resources for Staff and Students. (Internal users only)

Research Data Management

Managing and publishing research data is part of good research conduct and the University Research Data Service can assist researchers during the three key stages of the data lifecycle:

• Planning
• Working
• Sharing

Contact details:

rdm@ncl.ac.uk

Find out more about Research Data Management.

Newcastle University Research Software Engineering

The Newcastle University Research Software Engineering Team develop high-quality software in collaboration with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.  They can provide

• Help with the writing of technical sections and data management plans as part of your grant applications
• Software engineering expertise for your research projects
• Software training around UNIX shell and programming with Python.

Contact details:

rseteam@newcastle.ac.uk

Find out more about Newcastle University's Research Software Engineering.

NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub

The NIHR RSS Hub provides free and confidential advice to individuals applying for funding for applied health and social care research. Working with individual researchers, the team will:

• identify appropriate funding streams, study design and involvement of patients and the public
• advise on feasibility, ethical considerations and development of the study team through access to collaborators with methodological expertise
• provide access to support, advice and expertise for all researchers across England

Contact details
Email: nihr-rss@newcastle.ac.uk

Internal Funding Opportunities

There are a number of Internal Funding Streams available to staff involved in research to support career development and research excellence. These include:

• Research Excellence Development Awards are available to support personal professional development or fund a small research project that lets staff explore a new idea or develop data for external funding applications.
• The Tilley Hale Awards fund innovative Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement projects
• The Bridging Funding Scheme is available to retain research and technical staff whose employment depends upon external research funding.

Contact details:

medical.research@ncl.ac.uk

Additional Resources for Staff and Students.