• Question: Where do you get the funding for your research from?

    Asked by idontwanttobehere to Debbie, Glyn, Jon, Kat on 20 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jonathan Stone

      Jonathan Stone answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      From two sources, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the British Geological Survey…both of which are ultimately funded by the government. I’m really lucky because I have great funding that allows me to go on lots of fieldwork to volcanoes.

    • Photo: Debbie Crockard

      Debbie Crockard answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      Hey,

      We get out funding from lots of different sources – we are a membership organisation which means we have supporters, we get charity grants funding from charity funders and we get commercial funding from people like marks and spencers to try and make them better at protecting the environment.

    • Photo: Kathryn McMahon

      Kathryn McMahon answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      Currently, from two charities – the Yorkshire Cancer Research Fund and Breast Cancer campaign. Most cancer work is funded by charities (like Cancer Research UK), but some is funded by government research bodies like the medical research council. They funded my last job. Its really hard to get funding at the moment though. You apply by filling in a long form (a grant) – it can take months to put together the grant, its a lot of work. You send this to the charity or research council and they compare it to grants from other scientists and decide which they like best- its a bit like a applying for a job. At the moment, the medical research council are only able to give money to 10% of the grants it receives – not very many! So we have to write a lot of grants, which means a lot of work.

    • Photo: Glyn Barrett

      Glyn Barrett answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      I get my funding from the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council). I work as well with Rothamsted Research which are part of this and have a number of trust funds.
      Writing grant proposals is a lengthy and often non-productive process as they are often rejected so its back to the drawing board quite often.

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