Internal funding schemes

Responsive

Conferences & Workshops

*Funding of up to £2,000 available to apply for at any time*

Funding is available to help set up York-based conferences to support the promotion of new research findings nationally and internationally. Funding is not available simply to attend/speak at a conference.

We are also keen to encourage the sharing of innovative and inter-disciplinary ideas amongst academics across departments and research centres at York by sponsoring 'sand-pit' seminars and meetings to which potential external collaborators may also be invited. 

Funding of up to £2,000 is available. Please email your case for support in not more than 400 words to c2d2@york.ac.uk

Please explain briefly:

• The nature of the project
• How your proposal fits in with the strategic aims of:
  • C2D2 – particularly in terms of inter-disciplinarity
  • Your Department
  • The Wellcome Trust (see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Strategy/index.htm)
• What outcomes and benefits, both short and longer-term, you envisage for the project
• Finally please include a brief outline of costs (not included in 400 word limit)

We recommend that you discuss your proposal with us directly by emailing c2d2@york.ac.uk in the first instance.

Summaries of previously funded projects

Outreach Initiatives

*Funding of up to £2,000 available to apply for at any time*

C2D2 is happy to consider applications to fund modest outreach activities. These might include public lectures, activities in schools, participation in public festivals, development of outreach materials/media etc. 

Funding of up to £2,000 is available. Please email your case for support in not more than 400 words to c2d2@york.ac.uk

Please explain briefly:

• The nature of the project
• How your proposal fits in with the strategic aims of:
  • C2D2 – particularly in terms of inter-disciplinarity
  • Your Department
  • The Wellcome Trust (see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Strategy/index.htm)
• What public(s) you will engage with and why
• What outcomes and benefits, both short and longer-term, you envisage
• How you will evaluate the outcomes from your project
• Finally please include a brief outline of costs (not included in 300 word limit)

C2D2 encourages applications that link to existing University engagement initiatives e.g. York Festival of Ideas, Yornight

We recommend that you discuss your proposal with us directly by emailing c2d2@york.ac.uk in the first instance.

Summaries of previously funded projects

Websites offering inspiration and guidance on evaluation methods:

• http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/plan-it/evaluation?
• http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/pe/guides/
• http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Engagement-with-your-research/Support-and-resources/index.htm

Research

Research Priming Fund

The 2015 C2D2 Research Priming Round is being merged with the 2015-16 University Research Priming Fund call. 

The deadline for submitting completed applications to the Research Strategy and Policy Office (with appropriate DRC and HoD endorsement) is Thursday 2 July 2015.

Funded projects will run from mid August 2015, with a final cut-off date for spending of 31 July 2016.

Full information and application forms are available on the web at:

https://www.york.ac.uk/staff/research/internal-funding/research-priming-fund/

Public Engagement

Public Engagement Fund

Funding is available for creative projects that will engage a broad, and preferably national, audience with an aspect of biomedicine and/or health and its impact on our lives in an innovative, entertaining and accessible way. Such a project may seek to either engage individuals directly with the issue e.g. through some kind of educational resource or collaborative/community project, or indirectly and by stealth through a work whose primary focus is to entertain, for example a short feature film.

In either case the work should be sufficiently original, memorable and compelling to motivate the individual to go away and explore and engage further with biomedical science, its impact on society and culture, its historical roots and/or the ethical questions that it raises.  

Examples of potential projects could be a short film, a touring theatre or musical production, a digital game or some kind of interactive resource.

The project should be a true co-production between the artist(s)/designer(s) and the researcher(s) with each party respecting the expertise of the other and having a commensurate say in the design process. The named PI on the project must be a tenured member of academic, research or teaching staff. Collaborations with other University of York departments where appropriate are encouraged as are partnerships with relevant external individuals/organisations and there must be appropriate input of biomedical or health expertise.

Projects that also engage with groups of patients in the design process are encouraged (please bear in mind though this will require ethical approval). Projects that involve matched funding from other sources will be looked on particularly favourably as will those which have the potential to unlock further investment from external funders, e.g. the Wellcome Trust.

Awards will typically be in the range of £5k-15k but applicants proposing interdisciplinary projects of exceptional quality may apply for up to £25k. Funding is available for up to one year. We are keen where possible to showcase funded projects at the June 2016 York Festival of Ideas which will be themed ‘Tick Tock’.

For examples of past projects please see: http://www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/outreach/

Applicants are strongly advised to discuss their ideas with the C2D2 Administrator/ Outreach Coordinator by emailing c2d2@york.ac.uk or telephoning ext. 8876.

Please give your DRC Chair and Head of Department (and Departmental Research Coordinator) plenty of notice if you are considering applying.

Completed application forms, including short CVs of the applicants, should be sent to the DRC Chair of the Principal Investigator for ranking (if more than one application from the Department) and sign-off and then forwarded to the HoD for sign-off on resource allocation. The application should finally be submitted as one document to c2d2@york.ac.uk by 9am on Thursday 3rd September (2015).

• C2D2 Public Engagement Fund - application form (MS Word , 1,128kb)
• C2D2 Public Engagement Fund - guidance for applicants (PDF , 151kb)