Research Strategy and Funding
Our mission is to enhance and enable high quality, impactful research
In the Research Strategy and Funding Team, we create and enrich opportunities for researchers to apply for funding, and to collaborate and engage with stakeholders. We develop strategy, policy and processes that advance excellence in research and the research environment. Our team is a trusted source of information and expertise; we work to promote connectivity and drive progress in the research ecosystem.
For research enquiries please contact Leila Whitworth in the first instance. For enquiries about internal funding opportunities please email research@medsci.ox.ac.uk.
Strategy and Support
- Research themes and research partnerships
- Advancing positive research culture
- Research assessment, including the Research Excellence Framework
- Engagement, including public engagement, policy engagement, innovation and knowledge exchange
- Major prize nominations
- Policy for naming new research centre (SSO required)
- Researcher's Toolkit
Facilitating external research funding
- Coordinating and supporting major bids to external funders including:
- Large strategic bids and calls that require a single institutional bid
- Calls that have a cap on the number of applications
- Supporting strategic bids with institutional commitment and letters of support
- Relationship management for key research funders
Managing internal research funding
- John Fell Fund
- Medical Sciences Internal Fund: Pump Priming
- MSD Bridging Salary Scheme
- Supporting and assessing bids to other centrally managed internal funds