Budget: What can I spend IAA funds on?

IAA funds can cover all directly incurred and directly allocated project costs.

IAA funds CANNOT contribute towards the following:

• Costs for primary research activities.
• Costs for impact activities that should already have been anticipated and support through standard
  routes, e.g., impact activities costed as part of basic research proposals, DTPs or Centres.
• Duplication of other sources of funding that can be used more appropriately for the impact activity
  within the remit of UKRI
• Costs for undergraduate activities, Masters training, core PhD training including tuition or bench fees
• Any costs relating to intellectual property management including but not limited to registering,
  maintaining or supporting patents or property rights
• Equipment with a value of £10,000 or more
• Indirect costs or estate costs at the research organisation
• Contributions to Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
• Article Processing Charges (APCs) and other publication charges relating to peer-reviewed research
  articles and conference papers
• Publication charges for monographs, book chapters and edited collections published on or after 1
  January 2024. The UKRI open access policy provides full details of the costs which come under the
  scope of this policy
• Visa fees for staff working less than 50% of their time on the project
• Visa fees for family members
• General printing or postage costs which are not specific to the project and its dissemination plans
• Basic computing equipment for directly allocated staff already employed by the organisation (unless
  justified, see ‘cost justification’ section)
• General miscellaneous expenditure or contingency costs
• Separate apprentice levy costs or health and social care levy costs: these should instead be included
  within staff salary costs (directly incurred or directly allocated as appropriate)
• Carbon offsetting costs arising from project-related travel
• Major costs for project partners beyond minor travel and subsistence requests
• Costs related to merit pay and bonus award schemes offered by a research organisation for their
  employees
• Costs related to alcohol are not permitted and should not be sought as an eligible cost
• Costs which are not sufficiently justified.

Contact Rachael (Impact and Partnerships Manager) via email at socialscienceimpact@rhul.ac.uk if you wish to spend anything not listed in your initial project application or fund expenses in excess of £500.