Research Incentive Grants - Application Form

Introduction

To apply for a Research Incentive Grant, please complete this online form before submitting it. The page numbers at the top right will take you to the different sections of the forms. You can view the section name by hovering the cursor over the page number.

Instructions

The items with a * are mandatory, and you can only submit this form if you fill them in.

Before starting your application, we strongly recommend that you review the documents below:

Guide for applicants. This provides a guide to the different sections of the form.
Scheme regulations.
Peer reviewer assessment criteria.
Terms and Conditions of Award.

How to save your form

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After submission

Once you have submitted your application it will need to be checked and endorsed by your institution’s Research Office. On submission, an email will be sent to a predesignated address we have agreed with your research support services. It is not possible to enter an alternate email address.

The RO approval process must be completed electronically before the closing date of 5pm, 6th December 2023.

Allow at least 5 working days for the Research Office to check and endorse your application. If the Research Office opts not to endorse your application, you will be notified by email and invited to make amendments and resubmit for approval.

The Trust will not accept proposals that have not been endorsed by the applicant’s Research Office.

Editing a form after submission

Once submitted you can no longer edit your form. If you need to make changes, and your RO has not yet approved the application, ask your RO to reject the endorsement request. Once your application is endorsed by your RO, it is no longer possible to make any changes. Do contact the Trust if this problem occurs.

If you experience any technical difficulties during the online application process, contact the Trust by email: incentive-grants@carnegie-trust.org.

Hidden Fields

GrantID

ApplicantID

UniversityID

CDid

CVid

Your project

Title of the research project

Project summary

Give a summary of the research project in terms suitable for a non-specialist reader

Research area

From the pick list below, select which main research area your project falls under

From the pick list below, select a research sub-category for your project

Research keywords

Enter up to 10 keywords to describe the proposal's research area

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From the pick list below, select a research sub-category for your project

Your research proposal

Research objectives

Explain the issue, problem, question(s) your research seeks to address. Please be specific about your research objectives and aims

Background and Rationale

Describe the background and provide a justification/rationale for the proposed research. Take care to explain what gaps your proposed research aims to fill, or how it will extend current knowledge or understanding of this research topic/issue/question

Significance and relevance of your proposed project

In what ways is your proposed work new and innovative?

Outcomes and outputs

Outcomes

What are the expected outcomes of your proposed research and their broader significance? For example, what impact might it have on the field of research, stakeholders, policy or practice, or wider society? How do you plan to disseminate or share the outcomes?

Outputs

Explain the specific outputs you aim to produce as a result of the proposed research. These will be specific to the scope and type of project proposed and could include publications, creative outputs, performance art work, conference presentations or seminars, reports etc. Please be as specific as possible about these outputs, explaining what conferences/publications you would target, or the intended audience for any non-academic outputs

Project finances and justification

Using the cost categories in the drop down list, give detailed descriptions and estimates of the costs relevant to the research activities you have described in this application, as well as other costs relevant to the project which are not requested from the Trust (if applicable). Please liaise with the research office at your institution regarding the budget calculations and round up amounts to the nearest pound. All costs relating to dissemination (e.g. conference registration, conference travel and accommodation, publications etc.) must be entered under the separate dissemination costs category up to a maximum of 10% of the budget requested.

Link to cost categories document?

Costs requested from the Trust

Cost type

Description

Total for this item

£

Please use whole amounts

Costs subtotal:

£

Do you wish to add dissemination costs?

YesNo

Dissemination costs

Dissemination cost type

Dissemination Description

Total for this dissemination cost

£

Please use whole amounts

Dissemination costs subtotal:

£

Total Requested from the Trust:

£

Additional project costs

Please list any additional costs related to this research proposal which are not being requested from the Trust and will be covered by other sources. You may wish to list your own salary costs, overheads etc. under this section.

Do you wish to add additional costs?

YesNo

Additional project cost description

Additional project cost amount

£

Please use whole amounts

Additional project costs total

£

Justification for the above costs

Provide a full and detailed explanation for the costs requested from the Carnegie Trust. You must clearly state the reasons why the funds are needed. Note: Convenience is not a justification.

Other grant applications

If you have applied for other funding (including from your own university/faculty/dept.) to cover the costs listed above, please provide details below. You should indicate whether the application(s) are intended to cover the same costs as requested from the Trust or the additional costs listed. If known, the outcome of the application(s) should be stated. If a decision has not yet been reached, it is the applicants responsibility to notify the Trust of the eventual outcome.

Project team

Principal investigator

Describe your research experience to date. For example: what has your research focused on, what are your research interests, what particular research methodologies have you gained experience in?

How does your research experience and interests to date fit with the proposed research?

How will the research proposed in this application support your research goals? How will it contribute to your career and development as a researcher?

Collaborators

Will any collaborators be involved in the proposed research project?

YesNo

Add Collaborators:

Collaborator name prefix

Collaborator First Name

Collaborator Last Name

Collaborator Job Title

Collaborator Email address

Is this person employed by one of the 15 Scottish universities?

YesNo

Scottish University

Organisation

How will this collaborator contribute to the project? What expertise or skills will they bring to the project?

Support Staff

Will any Research Assistants/ Admin Support/ Tech Support staff be employed on this grant?

YesNo

Add Research Assistants/ Admin Support/ Tech Support staff:

Support staff type

Explain the responsibilities of the support staff

Your details

Personal details

Name prefix

First name

Middle name

Last name

Current position

Current Position/ Job Title

Percentage of full-time

%

Please use whole amounts

Start Date

Is your current contract

Open endedFixed term

End date of your fixed term contract

How is this position funded?

If other, please specify

Do you have the permission of the grant PI/funder to undertake your proposed project alongside your existing work commitments?

YesNo

Please forward written confirmation, from either PI or funder, to the Trust via email (incentive-grants@carnegie-trust.org). If the Trust has not received this confirmation by the submission deadline your application will not be sent for review.

Error: Those applicants employed on an existing research grant are required to seek the agreement of either the grant holder or funder before submitting their application (and to forward this via email to incentive-grants@carnegie-trust.org).

Contact details

Work email

Alternative email

OCRID Identifier

Twitter handle

Please include the @ symbol.

Address

University

Department or School

College, School or Faculty

Building name

Street

City

Postal Code

Doctoral study and career

If you have completed, or are currently completing a PhD, please provide details below

PhD information

PhD awarding university

PhD date obtained

PhD Supervisor name

PhD Title

Explain how you meet the Trust's definition of an early career researcher. You must be either:

Within 7 years of successfully completing your PhD (measured from the date of submission), OR

Within 7 years of starting your independent research career (pro-rata for part-time staff and excluding breaks such as parental leave, extended sick leave, secondments outwith academia or periods of unemployment). NOTE: the Trust would consider a researcher's independent career as commencing when they gained a position (such as a fellowship or lectureship) that permitted self-directed research.

Declaration and undertakings

The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is registered under the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and complies with the provisions of the Act. Applicants are reminded that, in order for the Carnegie Trust to assess applications, it will be necessary to store and process the information sent, and to make it available to the Trust’s independent assessors and Trustees . Data will be securely held and lawfully processed, it will be kept up-to-date, and not retained for longer than necessary. Data may also be used to compile published lists of award holders or summaries of funded projects, which may be available on the Internet and in the Trust’s Annual Report. The Trust may contact applicants about its funding schemes, application processes and policies or to help evaluate these.

Declaration

Please read the following statements carefully and complete the declarations

The information provided in this application is, to the best of my knowledge, complete and accurate

I confirm that the above proposal is my own new and original work

None of the research activities or outputs described in this application have taken place or been achieved

The Trust may process the data in accordance with the GDPR Act 2018

I accept that the Trust will not enter into correspondence which would involve, directly or indirectly, discussion of, or comparison with, other applications, whether successful or unsuccessful.

I have read the Research Incentive Grant Regulations and associated Terms of Award and agree to abide by them, should an award be made.

Institutional approval

Research Office

Email address

Review & submit your application

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Human participants YesNo	Biological samples YesNo
Animals or animal tissue YesNo	Stem cells YesNo
Personal data or anonymised (patient) data YesNo