Funding Institutional
Funding Institutional combines over 18,000 active funding opportunities with information on over 6.3 million awarded research grants from a wide-range of funders.
Search easily for active, accurate funding opportunities in a timely manner from over 4,300 government and private funding organizations, and by offering insight into research that has already been funded in your area of interest.
Funding Institutional is integrated into Pure so that you can access opportunities from Pure or Funding Institutional directly and easily share opportunities with colleagues.
Pure
Pure is the University of Northampton’s current research information system and is also our portal to the world, showcasing the research outputs, projects, datasets and activities of our researchers.
Pure Award Management
Pure Award Management is the University’s award system which enables the Research and Innovation Funding Support team to track, monitor and manage bid-related activity. Integrated in Pure, the system allows academics and researchers to create applications for funding, obtain institutional approval and keep track of their applications.
Pure Award Management also captures post award by the creation of awards and projects for successful bids. Academics and researchers can store post award documentation, record and track time spent on a project and create milestones. Research activities (datasets, equipment, impact, outputs and papers) can be linked to the project.
Pure Award Management enables applications, awards and projects to be stored in one location making it an ideal one-stop source for your research.
Altmetrics
Altmetric for Institutions is a web-based platform that enables you to search, monitor and measure online conversations surrounding the research outputs of specific authors, research groups and departments at your institution. This data can support institutions in a number of key areas, including:
- Increasing & Evidencing Engagement with Your Research – Monitor early engagement and be aware of who is talking about your research, and what they’re saying. Ensure that your researcher is accurately reported and communicated.
- Funding – Find evidence of broader impact and engagement for use in funding applications, and to showcase the attention your research generates.
A-Z Databases
Find recommended library databases for your research.
Viva Engage
Support for all staff and students at the University of Northampton via Viva Engage – for any questions/information about open research, funding, REF (Research Excellence Framework), Impact, Knowledge Exchange, KPIs, Working with Businesses, Public Engagement, Research Data Management, Datasets, Altmetrics, Bibliometrics, Copyright.. and anything else research and/or knowledge exchange related.
Impact ToolKits
Impact is an increasingly pressing issue for funders of research projects with a majority of funders now specifically requiring an impact plan as a condition of their grant. These funders have a number of resources and tools that you can access to develop the level of impact that they require in any grant applications:
Fast Track Impact
Fast Track Impact is the world’s leading source of evidence-based resources and training for researchers who want to generate impact from their research.
The Fast Track Impact Podcast
The podcast for researchers who want to be more productive and achieve real-world impacts from their research. Every week, Mark Reed gives you practical tips and discusses how you can enhance the impact of your research, based on the latest research.
Impact Literacy Workbook
The Impact Literacy Workbook focuses on integrating impact at any stage of the research to impact process. It is always more beneficial to draw impact into research as early as possible, but it is never too late. This workbook is designed to help individuals think through some of the key aspects of impact and to help develop skills in impact planning
Becker Medical Library (Biological Sciences)
The Becker Medical Library Model for Assessment of Research Impact model is a framework for tracking diffusion of research outputs and activities to locate indicators that demonstrate evidence of biomedical research impact. It is intended to be used as a supplement to publication analysis. Using the Becker Model in tandem with publication analysis provides a more robust and comprehensive perspective of biomedical research impact. The Becker Model also includes guidance for quantifying and documenting research impact as well as resources for locating evidence of impact.
Funding Resources
Useful Funding Resources guide from the digital curation centre to help you achieve maximum benefit (and £s) from your data management plan!