Innovation and Scholarship Fund

The Innovation and Scholarship Fund supports colleagues working on smaller teaching and learning projects and initiatives. Colleagues can apply for funding from £100 to £2,500 per project, providing financial backing for ideas that can enhance our educational practices.

This fund is designed to encourage scholarship and dissemination across the breadth of our teaching community, to support specific enhancement activities in teaching and learning (rather than to support ongoing or 'business as usual' activity). This may include, for example, accessing funding to compensate students for their time in consultative or collaborative activities (vouchers), to facilitate scholarshp activity with sector colleagues focused on enhancement of teaching, or to enable attendance at an event which could support enhancement of the learner experience at the University.    

All University of Manchester staff are eligible to apply to the fund, provided you are on a permanent contract or a fixed term contract that includes the period of time in which the proposed activity and its evaluation would take place. As part of your application, you will need to outline how your proposal will benefit teaching and learning across the University and/or more widely, what the outputs of your activity will be, and how you will evaluate the impact of this work.

Applications will be reviewed every two months by a panel. All applications will be considered on the basis of the content of the application, and the first panel will not take place before December 2024. Please note that the Innovation and Scholarship Fund is a limited fund, and therefore we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as you are ready to do so rather than wait for a later panel.

Funding and support for teaching and learning development may also be available from your School or Faculty.

• Faculty of Humanities Education Discovery Grants
• Faculty of Science and Engineering Teaching Excellence Development Fund

If you are interested in undertaking a Further Education (FE) or Higher Education (HE) course, please visit the Learning and Organisational Development website for more information about the University's FE/HE Funding Scheme.