Research

Environment and Geography Development Fund

The next round of funding will open in August/September 2023.

This funding is for activities such as priming of new research (including pedagogical), collaborative research visits, workshops, establishing networks, conference attendance, and Challenge Area Research Group (CARG) activities. This might include funding for travel, consumables or equipment, but not for buy-out of academic staff time.

Applicants can request funding up to:

• £1000 for activities relating to travel/conferences
• £2000 for research pump priming activities.

Travel funds are limited to one successful application per person per year, and there can only be one travel event within the application, e.g. one conference. Travel must take place before mid-July 2024.

We ask that research pump priming projects end by 30 June 2024 so that there is time for spend to be reconciled before the end of the financial year (31 July 2024).

Please note that budgets cannot be carried over into the next financial year. Awarded funding must be spent and the item received/activity undertaken before the end of the financial year. This means we won't be funding conferences that will take place after 31 July 2024 from the Development Fund.

Eligibility:

Open to ART, T&S and ECR (Early Career Researcher) staff, plus PGRs (Postgraduate Researchers). This funding is not open to members of Stockholm Environment Institute - York because they have access to alternative funding streams.

We will prioritise funding ECRs and new academic staff, because they are less likely to have research grants to help undertake these activities.

PGRs need to talk to their supervisor first and use their Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) before applying to this scheme. We will require a strong case explaining why funding is needed beyond the RTSG.

Your Proposal:

You will need to justify all costs in the form.

Assessments will be based on criteria including academic excellence of the proposal, strength of outcomes, details of planned outputs, plans for follow-up funding, and in the context of other funding available to you.

Assessment Process:

This fund is overseen by the Research Leads Team (RLT) - led by the Chair of DRC - which comprises the CARG leads, Research Facilitator, Graduate Chair, ECR and PhD reps. Applications will be discussed monthly and decisions will be communicated ASAP afterwards. Chair's Action will be an option for applications up to £500.

Please contact nicola.carslaw@york.ac.uk to discuss other potential uses of the fund not listed here.

Application form

Exemplar application

The key purpose of SPIGs is to facilitate interdisciplinary working and to respond to opportunities such as emerging topics, grant applications or high impact papers.

They should contain members from across at least 2 or more of our 4 Challenge Area Research Groups (CARGs), as well as members from other UoY Departments, centres and external stakeholders where necessary.

SPIGs are intended to form as and when needed to generate a clear deliverable - such as a grant proposal, a publication, a policy initiative or an industry commitment - and disband when no longer needed. We expect they will typically have ~3-18 month lifetimes.

Modest amounts of funding are available to help achieve deliverables (indicative maximum £500).

Open to anyone in the Department, including technicians, ECRs and PGRs, and run on the principles of equality and diversity.

Application form

Email completed forms to environment-research@york.ac.uk

Early Career Researcher (ECR) Support

Our Department has an Early Career Researchers (ECR) Group that meets regularly to discuss relevant issues, share information and to build a strong early career community of researchers.

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