Brigstow Institute Funding Opportunities
Ideas exchange funding
Ideas Exchange funding is designed to support emerging, interdisciplinary networks and partnerships that are co-designed and co-run with people within and outside of Academia. Ideas exchanges give new partnerships the time and resources to connect with others and explore the idea’s potential together to identify shared research interests and plan the next steps.
How much funding can I apply for? Up to £2000
What can funding be spend on? Funding can be used to: buy in expertise; hardware costs; consumables or travel.
What is the deadline? This is an ongoing call depending on when funding is spent. Due to funding levels, we predict that the call will close sometime before Easter 2025.
Who is eligible? Everyone is eligible to take part in Ideas Exchanges. However you will need at least one University of Bristol academic as part of the project team.
Seedcorn funding
Seedcorn funding is an annual opportunity for mixed teams of researchers to carry out curiosity-driven, playful, exploratory and equitable projects to take the first steps in developing and pursuing new research. Funds are available to initiate and develop partnerships to undertake early-stage, exploratory research pilots that engage with creative thinking and making.
How much funding can I apply for? Up to £15000
What can funding be spend on? Funding can be used to: buy in expertise; hardware costs; consumables or travel.
What is the deadline? This call is closed.
Who is eligible? Everyone is eligible to take part in Seedcorn funding. However you will need at least one University of Bristol academic as part of the project team.
A bit about the Brigstow Institute
Our research is underpinned by a commitment to a distinctive way of working. This foregrounds research projects that are co-produced (valuing all experience and knowledge equally), interdisciplinary (collaborating with different expertise and skills) and use critical making (making as a method of research).
Find out more at Co-production and community.
Project Catalogue
Browse some of the 240+ projects who have been awarded Brigstow funding.
If you have an idea for a project that does not fit into our current funding opportunities email Brigstow Institute: hello-brigstow@bristol.ac.uk.