We understand that securing funding is crucial to researchers and we want to give you the possibility of exploring new ideas.

Our funds

The Seeds for Success Fund

The Seeds for Success Fund will fund projects that will enhance your career progression (up to £5,000/project). This fund aims to provide postdocs with funds to work on preliminary data for a Fellowship application.

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The Wings for Ideas Fund

The Wings for Ideas Fund will fund projects that will enhance your career progression (up to £2,500/project). This fund aims to provide postdocs and fellows with funds to work on research that might lead into a new venture, a product, or a prototype.

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Dame Julia Higgins Postdoc Collaborative Research Fund

This fund was introduced to give postdocs at the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine the opportunity to apply for and be awarded their own research funding, develop and deliver a collaborative research project, and take a step towards becoming independent from the research of their PI.

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Other funding opportunities at Imperial

EDI Seed fund

Imperial's EDI Seed Fund aims to encourage and support the College community in generating ideas, activities and initiatives that will contribute to the aims and objectives of Imperial’s EDI strategy. The EDI Seed Fund offers £10,000 each year to help people implement their ideas. 

President's Community Fund

The President’s Community Fund welcomes applications from both students and staff for proposals to enhance College spaces to suit our interactions post pandemic and to have a lasting impact on the College community. We encourage collaborative proposals co-created by staff and students.

Societal Engagement Seed Fund

The Societal Engagement Seed Fund will support staff to engage the wider public with our research and education, for mutual benefit.

Imperial College Enterprise Funds

Imperial College Enterprise Funds provide early-stage funding, critical to transform Imperial's discoveries into tomorrow's solutions in medicine, engineering, biochemistry, genetics, materials, computer science and many more.

MIT-Imperial Seed Fund

The MIT-Imperial Seed Fund aims to help kick-start early-stage projects between two of the world’s leading universities that lead to high-impact research, discovery science and the deployment of frontier technologies.

The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding Gateway

The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding Online is all about alternative sources of funding - especially charities - which can make awards for a wide range of purposes, including training or conference attendance. Whilst marketed at PGRs (and so great for any PGRs you support) it can also help you find small pots of money.

The Alternative Guide Online contains a huge database of funding opportunities, comprehensive guidance, and numerous tools to help you prepare a winning grant application. Imperial has purchased a licence to the Guide, and so it’s free for all students and staff to use - Login Now!