Non-Staff Resources
List any other directly incurred costs in this section, with a brief description of each item, or group of items.
Items should be specified as far as possible in the attachments 'Case for Support' and 'Justification of resources' and justified in terms of requirement for the research proposed.
Examples of items that may be included under this heading are:
Consumables - please specify.
Publication costs - include publication costs if they are expected to fall within the period of the grant; costs likely to fall after the end of the grant period should be recovered through indirect costs.
Specialist publications (not expected in institutional libraries).
Consultancy fees.
Field work fees/subjects/informants.
Computing - include recurrent costs of computing dedicated to each project only, e.g. software licences. Do not include any costs associated with the use of the host organisation's central computing facilities.
Equipment - only items costing less than £10,000 (including VAT)
Equipment - related items (if not included as part of the Research Organisation's estates costs), e.g. Maintenance (external contracts/agreements).
Relocation.
Rental charges (specify equipment or service being used and basis of charging).
Access charges for medium or small research facilities (specify the nature of the facility and the basis of charging). In accordance with TRAC, the total FEC of a grant containing charges for use by the project of existing research facilities must not include any net depreciation costs if the facility was purchased with Research Council funding.
Glass house consumables
Recruitment and advertising costs for staff directly employed on the project
Purchase/hire/running costs of vehicles if necessary for the project
Sub-contracting
MRC Predoctoral fellowships only: Costs for predoctoral fellowships are limited to the Fellow’s salary and a total of £20,000 per annum (pro rata). This may be used for consumables, travel costs, PhD fees, equipment, etc. Costs incurred from training at an Overseas Centre/2nd Centre/Industry Placement and the cost of animals (including costs of obtaining animals and their maintenance but excluding additional experimental costs) may be requested in addition to the £20k pa limit, and they should be clearly noted in both the Application form and Justification of Resources attachment. Costs incurred by animals should be added to the ‘Animal Costs’ section.
All costs for predoctoral proposals would usually be listed as Directly Incurred costs. Estates costs and Indirect costs are not payable for predoctoral fellowships and these sections should be entered as £0.
Predoctoral fellowships are not awarded under the FEC framework and will be awarded at 100% of costs; however while the Je-S Fellowship configuration is still ongoing, all applicants should apply to the ‘Fellowships FEC’ Scheme and complete as normal, ignoring any automatic profiling to 80% in the form. Predoctoral fellowships will be re-profiled post-award.
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships: Check the Call Guidance documentation to determine whether there are specific UKRI specific requirements which would override the information above.