Budget Justification

Many funding applications call for a justification of the budget you are requesting from them (direct costs), other contributions (partner investigators/organisations) and how the University is supporting the project within the institution (indirect costs). These are usually outlined in separate sections.

Direct Costs

  • Research assistance: outline their role and say why this is crucial to the conduct of the research. Say what skills are required of the position.
  • Travel: outline why you are going, how long will you be away or explain how you arrived at the total number of kilometre.
  • Maintenance: if you want to include phone, postage etc this must be special to the project e.g. survey mailouts.
  • UWS Levy: contribution towards infrastructure costs.
Indirect Costs
  • Investigator salaries proportional to the time allocated to the project.
  • Infrastructure e.g. office space, meeting venues, computer access. 
  • Professional development (workshops for specific skills). 
  • The research environment e.g. opportunities to work with other similar/related researchers and postgraduates.
  • Access to specialist resources such as libraries and or unique database.
Always seek advice from the Research Development Officers if you have any queries.