Budget Justification

Many funding applications call for explication and 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. Always seek advice from the Research Development Officers if you have any queries.

• Direct Costs
• Indirect Costs

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 kilometres 
• 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