External funding procedures

Research Project Application Procedure – Checklist

• Have you discussed the outline application with the Research Office?
  
  
• Have you gained a provisional agreement from the Head of Department for the application to proceed?
  
  
• Have you discussed the application more fully with the Research Office, taking into consideration the funding body guidelines?
• Have you considered whether you need any of the following resources:
  Research Assistant Staff time
  Replacement Teaching / Research Leave
  Consultancy
  Consumables
  Subject Payments
  Materials
  Transcription Costs
  Travel and Subsistence (within UK and Overseas separately)
  General Equipment (desks – experiment apparatus etc.)
  Computer Equipment
  Software
  Stationery, disks etc (sometimes these come under consumables, depending on the funding body)
  (This is not a comprehensive list and should only be used as a guide.)
  
  
• Have you contacted Finance to prepare a costing and obtained a signed budget?
  
  
• Have you completed the FIR 1 Form and obtained the Head of Department's signature?
  
  
• Have you submitted a copy of the application, along with a completed FIR1 Form (with attached authorised budget), to the Research Office for Pro-Warden Research Approval?
  
  
• Have you received the okay, from the Research Office, for your Academic Department to submit the proposal?
  
  
• Have you submitted the proposal before the announced deadline?