The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is a research funding agency established in January 2023 and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

The Research Development Team have developed a guidance document that simplifies potential funding pathways and identifies research themes that cut across multiple opportunities. 

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) supports research that advances our understanding of the Earth system. 

The Research Development Team have developed a guidance document that assists in identifying intersections of NERC's remit that can unlock funding opportunities for projects addressing environmental and sustainability challenges. 

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) has transitioned to a new funding platform, The Funding Service (TFS).

On Wednesday 5 July 2023, the Research Development Team delivered a Research Information Session (RISe) on using the new service. Click HERE to view the presentation slides.

Below are links to further guidance on how to navigate varying aspects of TFS. 

• Step-by-step instructions on how to register with TFS 
• Video demonstration of how to set up your TFS account
• Video instructions on how to locate opportunities using UKRI's funding finder
• Video instructions on how to complete your funding application

Once you have completed and submitted your application, it will first go to LSE for final checks and approvals before it is sent to UKRI. Please take into account our policy of requiring a near-final version of the application, including an itemised budget, 5 working days in advance of the funder deadline. 

What is the R4RI?

The R4RI is a flexible narrative CV format designed to help you and your team evidence a diverse range of skills and experience beyond traditional academic-metric-based CVs that typically consist of a list of publications, successful funding, employment history, and education background with minimal context. Rather, narrative CVs such as the R4RI, provide space to describe and explain your achievements in the context of the application by focusing on four modules enabling you to demonstrate your contributions to:

• The generation of new ideas, tools, methodologies, or knowledge.
• The development of others and maintenance of effective working relationships.
• The wider research and innovation community.
• Broader research/innovation users and audiences and towards wider societal benefit.

Click HERE for more information on how to prepare your R4RI.