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Applying to the University Impact Fund

Find out how to apply to the University Impact Fund, to help you achieve and evidence the impact of your research.

University Impact Fund
University Impact Fund

About the Impact Fund

The Impact Fund is funding from Research England (HEIF) and is worth £29k. The fund is designed to support activities that will help you to:

  • achieve, enhance and accelerate the impact of your research, including supporting knowledge exchange activities
  • evidence the impact of your research, including through formal evaluation
  • provide training and development opportunities in knowledge exchange and impact

The aim of this fund is to ensure that the impact on society and the economy from our excellent research is optimised and robustly evidenced.

Funding streams

There are four funding streams available. The rapid response and flexi-fund call facilitates researchers to quickly respond to opportunities to enhance the impact of their research. The training bursary enables researchers to build their knowledge and skills in impact and activities to achieve impact including knowledge exchange. We also have a new REF Impact Case Studies Open Call.

REF Impact Case Study Enhancement Fund - Open Call

Open 10 January at Midday until 31 January at Midday.

Do you have a potential impact case study for REF2029? Would you benefit from funding to enhance and evidence the impact of your research?

This fund aims to help promote activities which will help you to deliver, enhance and/or evidence the impact of your University research. The fund is open to support a broad range of activities and mechanisms and this might include knowledge exchange/mobilisation, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder engagement, translation and implementation of research insights, evaluation, communication and dissemination (this list is not exhaustive).

There are two different sized funding pots you can apply for: - up to £5,000 - up to £10,000

The application process involves a short form and will require approval from your Departmental, Faculty or School Impact Lead.

The total budget is £50,000 and all activities need to be completed and money spent by 31 July 2025.

Rapid Response

Open until June 2025 or fully allocated.

This fund and assessment process has been developed to enable us to respond to your requests for funds in a timely way so that you can take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

This call is for applications of up to £1000, with a total budget of £9000.

These applications will be assessed for funding by the Research Impact Team within 7 working days of submission.

Flexi-Fund

Open until June 2025 or fully allocated.

This fund aims to help promote activities which will achieve, accelerate and/or evidence the impact of our University research. The types of activities might include knowledge exchange/mobilisation, knowledge brokering, co-production, implementation, evaluation, evidence synthesis, engagement and communication (this list is not exhaustive).

Each flexi-fund application has a maximum budget of £3k and the total budget is £9000 to be spent by 31 July 2025.

Training Bursary

Open until June 2025 or fully allocated.

This fund has been developed to enable researchers to undertake training in a wide range of topics to help them to achieve and enhance the impact of their research. These topics will be dependent on the researchers needs but could include research impact, knowledge exchange, monitoring and evaluation, regulation, intellectual property, communication, presentation skills, social media, infographics etc.

The total budget is now £6k. All courses must be booked and completed by 31 July 2025.

Apply to the impact fund

Complete and submit the following application forms to be considered for University impact funding. Please note we have separate forms for each of the three calls:

This funding will help you undertake activities to achieve, enhance and evidence the impact of your research.

Email your completed application form to research-impact@bath.ac.uk.

If you have any questions email the team on research-impact@bath.ac.uk or Abby Sabey, Research Impact Manager: as6424@bath.ac.uk.

Applicants are encouraged to discuss their application with a member of the research impact team. To request an appointment email research-impact@bath.ac.uk.

Note:

  • application forms to be kept to three pages of A4
  • all funds to be spent by 31 July 2025

Support

Find out what resources, support and tools are available to help you with identifying and evidencing the impact of your research from RIS.

Apply to the University impact fund

Enquiries

If you have any questions, please contact us.

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