Funding Opportunities
Explore internal and external funding opportunities that encourage and facilitate impact.
Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund
An internal investment fund aimed at supporting early-stage partnership development, de-risking potentially exploitable innovations, delivering research-based public/community engagement, and supporting the generation of impacts across the spectrum from University of Glasgow research.
The Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund accepts applications from all disciplines, with a Flexible Fund (£30k max) issuing calls twice a year.
The Small Grants Fund (£2k max) is administered on a rolling basis.
Find out more: Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund
Impact Acceleration Accounts
Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAAs) are strategic awards from UKRI to research organisations, to fund activities that translate research into impact. Projects must be underpinned by University of Glasgow research and should focus on collaborative work with external partners that supports uptake and use of research beyond the academy.
University of Glasgow holds IAAs from six funding councils (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, STFC,), a place-based IAA Photonics & Quantum IAA together with other Scottish universities, and offer funding for cross-disciplinary projects through a joint IAA opportunity.
As a researcher at the University of Glasgow, you can request IAA funding from the account that best fits your project; it does not need to be managed by your own College.
Find out more: Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAA)
Other University of Glasgow Funding Initiatives
The university operates numerous internal funding schemes that provide support for pump-priming, impact acceleration, knowledge exchange, partnership development and culture initiatives.
Explore internal funding opportunities.
Government Funding
Innovation Vouchers
Funding from The Scottish Funding Council to seed collaboration between Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Scotland’s universities, colleges and research institutes. Application is made jointly with partner business.
Innovate UK
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is the UK’s innovation agency. Innovate UK’s mission is to help companies to grow through their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate.
Scottish Enterprise High Growth Spin-out Program
Helps researchers to take their ideas and inventions from the lab to the global marketplace by awarding funding and support.
For more information visit Scottish Enterprise or contact Mel Anderson (Head of Innovation & Enterprise).
SMART:Scotland
A Scottland Enterprise scheme providing financial assistance to SMEs to support projects that represent a significant technological advance for the UK sector or industry concerned, which can include working with the HEI sector.
For more information visit Scottish Enterprise.
Other Funding Sources
There are a range of private foundations, trusts, charities, professional bodies etc. that provide small and large grants to support impactful research and activities. Teams across the university collate such opportunities for researchers to explore:
- Public Engagement Funding opportunities.
- MVLS has collated a range of funding opportunities for public engagement and knowledge translation.
- Glasgow Centre for International Development can keep University of Glasgow staff informed about upcoming internal and external funding calls (e-mail GCIDadmin@glasgow.ac.uk and ask to be added to the mailing list).