Grant application and review process
All full applications and reviews are made through our online grants management system.
Use our online system to create or view an application:
Tips and advice for making an application
Accessing the grant management system
Log-in:
Where you have previously held or currently hold a grant, the grant management system will recognise you. You will need to confirm and create a password.
Register: new users
A user guide on how to apply is available once you are logged into the grant management system.
Hard-copy paper application forms are not accepted for any grant types.
Helpful application tips
- Applicants are reminded that Kidney Research UK's research remit is wide
- Clear and succinct preparation is likely to be helpful to our Research Grants Committee, whose members are drawn from a wide range of clinical and scientific backgrounds.
- Attention to patient input and avoiding excessive jargon language is important
- Your background description should make clear the extent of support for the feasibility of the planned approach and reference to published work, or provide pilot data. The security of these arguments should be commensurate with the scale of the planned work.
- We understand the need to develop new ideas where such support may be limited, and therefore we provide innovation grants to cover such possibilities.
- Read the regulations and conditions document for applicants and recipients.
Applying for a grant to fund clinical research?
- Read the guide to excess treatment costs and the schedule of events cost attribution template.
- Allow time to complete a SoECAT and have an AcoRD Specialist sign it so that you can upload and include it as part of your online application submission.
Information about the expert review process
All applications will undergo expert review, involving members of our college of experts (formerly the research grants committee and lay advisory group), including scientific, clinical, and patient reviewers.
Reviews will be submitted via our online grants management system.
Applicants are welcome to suggest potential reviewers, especially those based outside the UK. However, the charity cannot guarantee that any particular individual will be approached. Nominated reviewers must not have any formal connection with the applicant’s current, planned, or recently completed research programmes or with their host institution.
Applicants will have an opportunity to respond to reviewer comments during the rebuttal stage, which occurs before any funding decisions are made.
Conflicts of interest are managed rigorously throughout the review process. Any college members with an institutional or individual conflict are excluded from the review and discussion of the relevant application(s). Conflicted members must leave the meeting while those applications are being discussed.
Applications will be assessed competitively based on scientific quality, importance to patients and feedback from reviewers.
A funding recommendation will be made following completion of the review process. All funding decisions are final. All funding recommendations are endorsed by the charity’s board of trustees. Once decisions have been finalised, applicants will be notified of the outcome.
The outcome from each grant round will be publicly available after each round has been completed. Where possible, we provide all applicants with verbatim feedback from the review process, regardless of the funding outcome.
Got a question? Get in touch.
For advice and or any help please contact a member of our Research Operations Team: