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Research policies and guidance

Read our policies to understand our expectations for you and your host institution when applying for or managing funding from us. You can also explore available guidance and support.

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Grant conditions

Our grant conditions set out the standard terms you should follow when receiving one of our grants. You should also take note of any supplementary information in scheme-specific guidance or your grant award letter. 

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Costs and salary guidance

The following policies and guidance outline the financial support we can provide as part of your grant or funding.

Costs guidance

We generally only cover direct research costs. This guidance details what costs we will and will not cover, with examples.

Salary guidance

These outline our approach to the payment of salaries, including consultant clinician and investigator salaries.

The following policies and guidance outline our expectations for researchers and host institutions when managing and conducting research we fund.

Conflicts of interest policy: funded researchers and commercial organisations

This policy defines what we constitute as a conflict of interest for researchers working with commercial organisations, as well as our requirements and actions we may take if potential conflicts are identified.

Data sharing and management

This policy outlines our position and expectations around data sharing and management to maximise the value of research outputs and enable data reuse across the sector.

Environmental sustainability in research

This policy sets out our requirements to consider, manage and where possible reduce the environmental impact of your research.

Open access

This policy sets out our expectations for researchers and host institutions we fund to provide open and unrestricted access to published research articles.

Research integrity: guidelines for scientific conduct

These guidelines aim to promote positive research culture across our research community and help maintain the highest standards of research practice.

Researchfish

The policy details how we expect principal investigators and your research organisations to submit the outputs and impacts of your research.

Support for our researchers

The following policies and guidance outline how we can support you as a researcher, including our expectations of host institutions.

Additional support and guidance

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