Funding for engagement

The PCER Fund

This fund awards up to £6,000 to researchers and public engagement professionals at Oxford. It supports purposeful and responsible public and community engagement with research activities.

Find out more about the PCER Fund.

Wider funding opportunities

There are many internal opportunities for Oxford academics, researchers, and staff to do public and community engagement with research activities.

These funds may support engagement activities or wider research that includes engagement:

• Knowledge Exchange Seed Fund: Supports knowledge exchange activities.
• OPEN Seed Fund: Supports policy engagement projects for researchers and public policy professionals.

Academic divisions manage many funding opportunities. Explore opportunities from each division:

• Gardens, Libraries and Museums
• Humanities Division and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
• Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
• Medical Sciences Division
• Social Sciences Division

Other internal funding opportunities are on the ‘Research Support’ website.

Researchers and other staff unsure about the right funding scheme should speak to their departmental or divisional research facilitator or support staff.

External funding opportunities

National funding opportunities for public engagement activities are advertised year-round by several bodies:

• The British Academy
• Institute of Physics
• The Leverhulme Trust
• The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement
• Research Professional
• Royal Academy of Engineering
• Royal Society
• Royal Society of Biology
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Funding for taking part in the Being Human Festival