• Question: Who funded the work?

    Asked by anon-238729 to James, Hannah, Claire, Chris, binuraj, Alice on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Hannah Blyth

      Hannah Blyth answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      My PhD is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) which is a government-funded research council (they get money from the UK’s science budget).

    • Photo: Binuraj Menon

      Binuraj Menon answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      Hi City389end,

      My research is funded by BBSRC, Royal Society and EPSRC. They are research funding bodies in UK.

    • Photo: James Roberts

      James Roberts answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Our research requires lots of funding, so we get it from a few different sources. Some comes from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), some comes from Eurofusion (a European research council just for fusion), some comes direct from the UK government, and some money comes from contracts that we win (so other organisations pay us to do work / research for them)

    • Photo: Alice Rhind-Tutt

      Alice Rhind-Tutt answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      Funding comes from all over the place, mine is partly from the Medical Research Council (MRC), partly from Diamond Light source (a facility run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council) and the company who sponsor me, they’re called Evotec. You have to apply for funding through grants, and then the organisation decides whether your work is worth giving money to.

    • Photo: Chris Carlton

      Chris Carlton answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      I work at the Science and Technology Facilities Council, a funder like the others mentioned (and we’re all based in the same building!)

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