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What we do

Our vision is to:

  • Support, develop and celebrate researchers and their ideas, enabling them to amplify and realise their ambitions.
  • Generate and facilitate new collaborations, and sustain existing relationships, connecting individuals and groups across the full range of academic disciplines.
  • Identify and share prospects for research development, responding to opportunities as they emerge.
  • Foster and preserve a culture of inclusive partnership working, engaging with research communities and partners to make a difference.
  • Secure and distribute funding to support research development, selecting projects and collaborations with the potential to thrive.

Through our funding schemes and research support we aim to initiate and develop transformative research collaborations and ideas. We also offer a range of funding schemes exclusively for University of Leeds researchers at all stages of their careers and a pump-priming fund to enable researchers to further develop or finalise a specific funding bid.

Researchers based at the University of Leeds, or anyone who wants to work in collaboration with our arts, humanities and cultures research community, can contact us for an informal discussion about their plans, whatever the stage of development might be.