Funding

If you would like assistance in finding collaborators from across the C2D3 community, or have questions about finding funding for a particular project, please contact us.

Current opportunities from Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery

C2D3 invites suggestions for interdisciplinary workshops. The aim of the workshops are to promote interactions between researchers across Cambridge, and to identify key interdisciplinary challenges in big data research, that we will adopt and promote via the Interdisciplinary Research Centre networks.

Sources of funding

Information on funding can be found using a range of resources including:

  • Research Professional  - a searchable database providing a comprehensive list of current funding calls open to UK researchers. It offers the ability to create and save customised searches and set up email alerts, and is free to use by anyone with a cam.ac.uk address.
  • Research Strategy Office - for information on internal funding opportunities and restricted calls
  • Research Operations Office - for general information on funding and in particular assistance in securing European funding.
  • European Union - CORDIS
  • The Cambridge University Development Office (CUDO) are involved in fundraising for major gifts for academic priorities across the University. If you feel your project may be suitable, you should discuss your Head of Department in the first instance about whether CUDO could be of assistance.

Interdisciplinary research proposals

C2D3 can offer assistance in the writing of large, cross-departmental, interdisciplinary funding proposals. Please contact coordinator@bigdata.cam.ac.uk for more details.

Pathways to Policy Impact

The Centre for Science and Policy is now offering support in writing the ‘Pathways to Impact’ section of grant proposals, helping you explore the policy implications of your research and connecting you to policy makers to increase the impact of your work.

CSaP can use its thriving network of Policy Fellows and established ways of bringing together policy makers and academics to help your research achieve policy impact. For more information please contact coordinator@bigdata.cam.ac.uk, or visit CSaP’s website at http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/programmes/pathways-impact/.

About us

The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of data science.

The Centre is funded by a series of collaborations with partners in business and industry which have an interest in using data science for the benefit of their customers and their organisations. Our founding partner is Aviva, the UK’s leading insurance company. We work with industrial partners to build a portfolio of collaborative research projects, provide professional development opportunities for their own staff and access to the full breadth and depth of the University’s talent pool in the area of data science.

With unprecedented access to increasing volumes of data, our research ranges from the underlying fundamentals in mathematics and computer science, to data science applications across all six University Schools of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology.

In parallel, our research addresses important issues around law, ethics and economics, in order to apply data science to solve challenging problems for society.

C2D3 supports collaboration and knowledge transfer in this growing field.

Join us.