Research-Who can help me
For help with bids for research grants and fellowships applications, including resourcing, your first port of call is your departmental research facilitator.
For help with collaborative, multi-partner, and interdisciplinary research bids, discuss this first with your department research faciltator. You may then receive support from the division through our senior divisional research facilitator.
For help with early career fellowships and John Fell Fund speak to our divisional research facilitator.
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Funding
Departmental Research Facilitators
Briefings and workshops
Armando Roman Zozaya
Claudia Grimaldo
Look at our pages on funding which include information on internal and external funds, and email alerts you can sign-up to.
If you have a detailed query about the University's internal research fund, the John Fell Fund, contact fellfund@socsci.ox.ac.uk.
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Funding opportunities page
Funding Opportunity Database
Armando Roman Zozaya
Claudia Grimaldo
Impact and engagement funding
For information and advice on Research Excellence Framework 2021, please contact your departmental research facilitators. They may then refer you to the divisional RIE team.
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REF
Departmental Research Facilitators
The impact team and support with your public engagement with research, policy engagement, business engagement and partnerships, and innovation. Please contact us on impact@socsci.ox.ac.uk if you are unsure who best to speak to and we will get you to the right person for your requirements.
Senior Research Impact Facilitator, Aileen Marshall-Brown leads the team and is responsible for leading our support for engagement and impact, incentivising activity through funding, building capacity and developing a positive culture for this activity within the division.
For support and advice on research impact and engagement, contact the Research Impact Facilitator paired with your department. They can provide technical expertise and actively assist you to undertake and record impact, maximise its reach and significance.
Our Research Impact Facilitators are
- Francesca Richards - SAME and SoGE
- Sam Harper - DPSI, Sociology and Education
- Irini Tseminidou - Economics, ODID and OSGA
If you are looking for funding opportunities for research impact and knowledge exchange activities, you should consider the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at Oxford. Contact Becky Launchberry our ESRC IAA Manager for more details.
We also have support for research, impact and engagement communications from Liz Crawford.
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Impact and engagement
ESRC IAA
Dr Sam Harper
Dr Francesca Harper
Irini Tseminidou
Rebecca Launchberry
Aileen Marshall-Brown
Liz Crawford
If you need specialist advice on how to engage with policy makers and influencers with your research, be they in local or national government, supra-national organisations, think tanks, or NGOs, please contact William Pryor.