Research Support
More than half of the sucessful grant applications to the AHRC include a significant ICT component. The Research Support Team is here to help at each stage of the research project lifecycle:
Identifying funding opportunities
The faculty maintains a comprehensive database of funding opportunities that lists providers, scheme deadlines and links websites with further guidance on how to apply.
Successful bidding
All bids that have any ICT component will be reviewed by the funder to ensure that they are technically sound with well planned and costed ICT infrastructure. This infrastructure could be bought in (we will evaluate hardware and software) or specified for bespoke development in house. The research support team has considerable experience working with bidders to ensure that bids are technically well founded to pass the funder review.
Please contact david.e.risley@manchester.ac.uk for free advice.
Building ICT infrastructure
Where provision is not available in schools we can build websites for research projects. The team has considerable experience in building bespoke ICT infrastructure to support research (see Case Studies). We work closely with projects, keeping the research goals clearly in view.
Assisting with archiving project data
Submission of data to an archive such as the UK Data Achive (ESDS and AHDS History )is a key requirement for sucessful bids. We will provide free support to meet this requirement.
Application maintenance.
Funding bodies are keen to know that research infrastructure will be maintained. Provision for this should be made in the bid costings during the project lifetime. Once the project has finished we will ensure that functionality is maintained.