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RLI Fund Application Library

These successful applications to previous Researcher-Led Initiative Fund and Seed Fund rounds may be helpful if you're applying for funding for your own initiative

Please note: Both the form and key strands have been updated since these applications were submitted, but the answers they provide are still relevant, and they cover a wide variety of activities.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

• Rehearsed reading of screenplay Between

• BAME role models in Science [applied before EDI strand introduced, under community]

• Neurodivergent Art Jam

Mental health, wellbeing and community

• Difficult Data support group

• PhD Researchers Game Night

• Global Studies wellbeing workshop

• Video Call online peer support groups

• Zoom(ing) in on nostalgia: the Way-Back Weekender

• Tea and Talk in the time of Covid-19

Public engagement

• Portrait of a Man-Made Valley

• Planet PhD Podcast

• Humanitarian Storyteller interactive exhibition

• Model of James Webb Space Telescope Near InfraRed CAMera

• Mammal Tracker citizen science app

• Women's reading groups looking at domestic noir novels

• Involving Y12 pupils in STEM research experiments and Zooniverse citizen science

• Unsilencing Pakistan's #metoo survivors: a delayed coming out

Training and development

• Reimagining 'Rebecca' symposium

• Creative and Critical Practice symposium

• Rising Powers Young Researchers Network

• Quantitative Analysis group

• NGender feminist film, talks series and conference

• 3-Day Writing Retreat

• Reading Group of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP)

Networking and researcher community

• Sussex University Parent Researchers: Advancing a Culture of Inclusion and Participation in Child Welfare Research

• Enhancing Interdisciplinary Research through Collaborative Training and Knowledge Exchange