Research Development

The Research Development Team works with staff and external bodies in putting together new research projects and assist with external and internal collaborations. In addition, they are responsible for:

• helping to identify sources of funding for research
• guidance on the preparation of research proposals
• facilitating discussions between researchers and potential project partners
• providing a link between departments and Research Support Services

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Research Governance Division

The Research Governance Division provides administrative and management services for proposals and contracts for externally funded research and related activities, and handles approximately 1000 applications with a total value of c.£146 million each year. A wide range of contract types are handled, mainly research funding agreements, multi-party collaboration agreements and studentships. The team also support the work of Academic Trading within the Finance Department, on consultancy and services contracts, and also negotiate an increasing number of agreements not necessarily tied to the provision of funding e.g. for materials transfer, confidentiality or non-disclosure.

In addition, the team handle applications to a very broad range of grant awarding bodies, including all the UK Research Councils, a large number of charities and trusts in the UK and overseas, and the European Commission. Grant applications are also very varied, including project grants, grants for capital projects, conferences and travel, research programmes, post doctoral and senior fellowships, research centres and research training sites.

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Research Operations Division

The Research Operations Division is responsible for the co-ordination of effective operations in research administration and in supporting the development of new processes as required. The team monitors and develops the key IT systems within the department and provides management information on research activity to academic departments at regular intervals and on an ad hoc basis.

The team are currently involved in a number of key projects including the development of an electronic workbench of systems to support research activity, the implementation of full economic costing and internal online approval of research proposals and the recording of research outputs. Research Operations is also responsible for the maintenance of the Research Support Services website, and contributes to the content and objectives of the external Research web pages.

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Research Finance Division

Post-award financial management and administration of research grants and contracts accepted by the University.

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Business Development

The KTP office. KTP is a Government sponsored initiative established in 1975 to encourage partnerships between universities and UK Industry and so facilitate technology transfer.

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Science City

Collaborative research between Birmingham and Warwick Universities in the research areas of: advanced materials, energy futures and translational medicine.

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