About the Impact Fund
The Impact Fund is funding from Research England (HEIF) and is worth £26k. 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 two funding streams available. The rapid response and flexi-fund are rolling funds to facilitate researchers to respond quickly to opportunities to enhance the impact of their research. Please note that calls will be closed once fully committed.
Rapid Response for Impact Activities
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 £1k, with a total budget of £10k to be spent by July 2027.
These applications will be assessed for funding by the Research Impact Team within 7 working days of submission.
Flexi-Fund for Impact Activities
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, communication, education, training and development. (this list is not exhaustive).
Each flexi-fund application has a maximum budget of £3k and the total budget is £16k to be spent by 31 July 2027.
The applications will be reviewed by a panel aligned to the funding request. We will aim to review and let you know the outcome within 14 working days
Apply to the impact fund
Complete and submit the following application forms to be considered for University impact funding. Please note we have a single form for both 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.
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 2027
Support
- Research Impact Team: research-impact@bath.ac.uk
- Emma Gibbard, Research Impact Lead, Research and Impact Services: elg64@bath.ac.uk
- Departmental Impact Directors
Find out what resources, support and tools are available to help you with identifying and evidencing the impact of your research from RIS.