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Research Associates and Senior Research Associates may be the named applicant for small grants and manage the grants they win, providing:
The manager/supervisor provides an email to confirm that he/she:
- considers it appropriate to allow the Research Associate to be the applicant named on the grant application
- undertakes to review the management of the grant on a regular basis
- agrees to take financial and management responsibility should a problem arise
The applicant:
- is eligible under the sponsor’s rules
- is currently employed by the University of Cambridge in the Department of Engineering with an end date (or funding end date if the contract of employment is open-ended) that lies beyond the end date of the new proposed grant
- completes training under the policy against bribery and corruption before submitting the grant application
- understands that permission to be an applicant for a small grant under this policy does not give them Principal Investigator (PI) status for grants outside this policy
The application:
- has a total grant value of less than or equal to GBP30k excluding VAT
- requests grant funding that will be used to pay only costs such as travel, equipment, consumables, facilities, design services and technical services
- does not risk confusing the definition of PI status with sponsors, under the REF, etc.
Anyone wishing to make a grant application should contact research-grants@eng.cam.ac.uk to benefit from advice and ensure the application is correctly processed.