Grant application guidance, boiler-plates, metrics and useful contacts Research grantsFor general information on the below visit the Edinburgh Research Office (ERO) website Winning Research Funding.ApplicationsThe first step in any grant application is to complete the ERO Intent to Submit form. CMVM Principal Investigators are recommended to complete an Intent to Submit form at least 8 weeks before any grant submission deadline. The intent to submit form will be picked up by a member of the pre-award team in ERO who will then liaise with you and the CCBS professional services team to help you develop and submit your bid.Please note that for any costed extensions or supplements required for a grant the ERO Intent to Submit form should also be completed as the first step, this will provide ERO with as much information as possible to be able to assist with this. Boiler-plate research environment text for CCBS & Edinburgh Neuroscience About CCBSPlease feel free to adapt the following generic text for your applications. Document CCBS Boiler Plate Text Sep 2022 (13.35 KB / DOCX) About Edinburgh NeuroscienceFor detailed information and metrics on Edinburgh Neuroscience and UoE, please refer to Edinburgh Neuroscience Text and Metrics for Grant Applications CCBS metrics Grants and publications per academic year2015/162016/172017/182018/192019/202020/21Awards (value, £M)12.831.1717.1314.2410.5924.53Awards (count)476669705586Research outputs*469464430469500502*Research outputs recorded in PURE and selected by date the output first became available in public domain (usually e-publication). Corresponds largely, but not exclusively, to peer-reviewed research publications. People (snapshot in September)Sep-16Sep-17Sep-18Sep-19Sep-20Sep-21Sep-22Staff263254276269277253251Chairs (CCBS staff)19181918191919Chairs (Honorary)1134444PIs^ (CCBS staff)n/an/a4846585754PIs (Honorary)n/an/a2018192323PIs (Associate*)n/an/a2625242424PhD students (registered on UoE 'official' CCBS programmes)n/an/a4956476359^ UE08 (Lecturer) or equivalent and above, and leading independent programme of research*Primary affiliation at UoE is not within CCBS** meets one of the following criteria: (i) on the UoE Clinical Brain Sciences or Psychiatry programme; (ii) on a different programme but one of the supervisory team is in CCBS; (iii) on a CCBS-administered programme: Euan MacDonald Centre or SPRINT-MND/MS. Assistance with applications involving in vivo work Malcolm Macleod in CCBS has been involved with funders and journals in efforts to improve experimental rigour related to in vivo studies.He is happy to help CCBS Investigators who are putting in applications involving animal work, to provide guidance on experimental design including statistical and methodological approaches. The level of involvement - from a guidance document through to consultancy provision and ongoing involvement - is very much up for discussion.Please contact Malcolm directly on malcolm.macleod@ed.ac.uk if you wish to take advantage of this excellent opportunity. Research grant managementFor help with managing your grant please contact the CCBS Centre Manager or your local professional services contact if you have one.ContactsNew research grant applications; liaison with NHS R&D, ACCORD; subawards, contractsERO Intent to Submit form for upcoming applications.Other queries: Dawne Milligan (ERO pre-award, UK-based funders), Barbara Bartocci, Harry Burn, Sasha Carcassonne and Lesley-Anne Hunter (ERO pre-award, EU and international funders)Research grants post-award queries (budgets, virements, extensions)Emma Munro (EU Projects), Stuart Thom (International funders)For UK funders please see the contact email addresses below;UK TeamEmail AddressUK – Charity/UniversityRGT.charity@ed.ac.ukRGT.university@ed.ac.ukUK – Govt/Health/IndustryRGT.government@ed.ac.ukRGT.industry@ed.ac.ukRGT.healthauthority@ed.ac.ukUK - Research CouncilRGT.researchcouncil@ed.ac.ukUK - Institutional and Block GrantsRGT.institutional-block@ed.ac.uk This article was published on 2024-08-27
