Research-Who can help me

Look at our pages on funding which include information on internal and external funds, and email alerts you can sign-up to. 

For simple queries on funding, please contact Daniel Holt. If you have a detailed query about the University's internal research fund, the John Fell Fund, contact fellfund@socsci.ox.ac.uk. 

For information and advice on the process for the Research Excellence Framework 2021, or the REF Dry Run, please contact your departmental research facilitators. They may then refer you to Tim Davies, the REF project mangaer. 

For support and advice on research impact and engagement, contact the Research Impact Facilitator paired with your department. They can provide technical expertise and actively assist you to undertake and record impact, maximise its reach and significance, and construct effective narrative for REF 2021 impact case studies. 

If you are looking for funding opportunities for research impact and knowledge exchange activities, you should consider the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at Oxford. Contact Lorna Hards. 

Our Research Impact Facilitators are Francesca Richards, Elizabeth Hodges and Sam Harper.

If you need specialist advice on hot to engage with policy makers and influencers with your research, be they in local or national government, supra-national organisations, think tanks, or NGOs, please contact William Pryor.