Research funding
C2D3 run an annual seed funding round, providing up to £5000 per project. We can support a variety of activities, including research, internships, industry collaboration, events, workshops, training with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration. The aim of the fund is to support steps towards an independent research career.
Please see the main Research page for more information and examples of previously awarded projects.
Other Postgraduate Sources of funding:
Researcher-Led Events Funding: This scheme provides a small amount of funds to postgraduate research students across the University to set up and run research events such as conferences and symposia.
Annual ECR and Student Conference
Celebrating our seed fund awardees, hearing about their research, and sharing ideas is a core component of our work supporting the community. We host a popular annual conference where we focus on giving ECRs the opportunity to help organise the conference, deliver the conference, practice their presentations skills, and ask questions in a supportive, friendly and informal environment.
ECR and Student conference 2025 - 10th December 2025 - registrations open!
Check out the programmes for previous events and keep an eye out in our internal bulletin emails for an invitation to our next annual ECR and Student conference.
Workshops
Upcoming workshops:
Grant writing workshop – ECRs and PhD students in data science and AI - Friday 16 January 2026 1:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Careers in industry - ECRs and PhD students in data science and AI - watch this space
Steering Committee representation
Our Steering Committee is diverse with cross-School representation. It is important to us that we also have PhD student and Early Career Researcher representation.
Our current representatives are:
PhD - Shrankhla Pandey, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine
ECR - Dr Giulio Corsi, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, School of Humanities and Social Sciences