Guidance

Roles in funding applications

The different roles on a project team when applying for funding using the UKRI Funding Service, including role descriptions, where to find eligibility criteria, and costings guidance

• From: UKRI
• Published: 23 May 2023
• Last updated: 7 August 2023 - see all updates

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Roles in funding applications: eligibility, responsibilities and costings guidance

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Follow this guidance if you are applying through the UKRI Funding Service to a funding opportunity that opens on or after 22 May 2023.

To help you select roles for the members of your team, this guidance gives the:

• role name used in the UKRI Funding Service and a short description
• responsibilities of the role as part of a team applying for funding
• equivalent role used in Je-S, for those familiar with this older service

Discuss this guidance

Email: support@funding-service.ukri.org

Updates

• 7 August 2023
  Additional details in the ‘UKRI Funding Services roles’ section around how to add an unnamed staff member to an application.
• 4 July 2023
  Updated the 'role costings' section to clarify when an individual can be added under a named role and also attract estates and indirect costs, and added more guidance and worked examples to help with costing the 'technician' and 'professional enabling staff' roles