Research & Innovation research funding courses
Training courses to help you secure research funding

Research and Innovation provides a range of training to help you find funding sources and write successful applications.
In addition to the seven central funding courses listed below, we are also available to work with Schools, Institutes and Faculties to provide bespoke training. Examples of bespoke courses that we can deliver include:
Bookings for 2021/22 courses can be made through Employee Self Service. Log in with your user name and password and click on Learning and Development and then search courses by typing the key words research support to list all of the 2021/22 Research & Innovation research funding courses.
Slides from all events can be found here (internal access only).
If you have any queries or need help with your application, please email our team inbox at researchadvice@plymouth.ac.uk.
This session provides an introduction to the different services provided by R&I including:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
Learn to prepare your research application in a way that maximises its chances of success.
Dates:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
This course provides an insight into funding review processes and how funding decisions are made.
Dates:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
Interactive sessions to set up your personal alerts for new and forthcoming funding opportunities to increase your chances of early grant capture.
Dates:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
How to prepare costs for your research funding application.
Dates:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
This session provides practical help for ECRs in the arts, humanities & social science disciplines to find funding opportunities and includes a short overview about how to write a successful application.
Dates:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
This session provides practical help for ECRs in the health disciplines to find funding opportunities and includes a short overview about how to write a successful application.
Dates:
This session provides practical help for ECRs in the science disciplines to find funding opportunities and includes a short overview about how to write a successful application.
Dates:
Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
In addition to our regular training sessions we host an annual visit from the UK Research Office in Brussels on all aspects of EU research funding.
The 2022 visit will take place on Wednesday 2 February 2022 (10:00-12:00) and will focus on Horizon Europe developments. Please email researchadvice@plymouth.ac.uk if you wish to attend.
The 2021 visit provided an overview of Horizon Europe. Slides from the session can be found here (internal access only).
The 2020 visit was about Horizon 2020.