Oxford Brookes University

Research England's commitment to accessibility means that we've produced this year's grant data tables in HTML format. The formula-driven funding allocations have not changed, just the way the data is presented.

Table list

Table A: Summary of allocations
Table B: Mainstream QR funds and London weighting
Table C: QR charity support fund and QR business research element
Table D: QR RDP supervision funds
Table E: HEIF allocations
Table F: HEIF formula parameters

Table A: 2023-24 Summary of allocations

Quality-related research (QR) funds

Mainstream QR funds (£): 4,392,400
London weighting on mainstream QR (£): 0
Mainstream QR funds including London weighting (£): 4,392,400
QR charity support fund (£): 185,658
QR business research element (£): 68,109
QR RDP supervision funds (£): 991,803
QR funding for National Research Libraries (£): 0
Total QR funding (£): 5,637,970

Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF)

Main allocation (£): 1,942,585
Top-up allocation (£): 0
Total HEIF (£): 1,942,585

Total QR and HEIF grant (£): 7,580,555

Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund (£): 0

Table B: 2023-24 Mainstream QR funds and London weighting

This data is available in the CSV grant data tables download

Table C: 2023-24 QR charity support fund and QR business research element

QR charity support fund

AFR19 Research income from charities (£): 1,400,000
AFR20 Research income from charities (£): 753,000
AFR21 Research income from charities (£): 795,000
AFR22 Research income from charities (£): 923,000
Average annual income (£): 967,750
London-weighted research income (£)*: 967,750
QR charity support fund (£)**: 185,658

London weighting (£): 1
Rate: 0.191845

Notes:

* London-weighted research income (£) = average annual income (£) x London weighting
** QR charity support fund (£) = London-weighted research income (£) x rate

QR business research element

AFR19 Research income from businesses (£): 590,000
AFR20 Research income from businesses (£): 379,000
AFR21 Research income from businesses (£): 79,000
AFR22 Research income from businesses (£): 302,000
Average annual income (£): 337,500
QR business research element (£)*: 68,109

Rate: 0.201803

Notes:

* QR business research element (£) = average annual income (£) x rate

Table D: 2023-24 QR RDP supervision funds

This data is available in the CSV grant data tables download

Table E: 2023-24 HEIF allocations

HEIF qualifying income
Data source		2019-20 income (£)	2020-21 income (£)	2021-22 income (£)
HE-BCI survey	Income from contract research	378,000	330,000	511,000
	Income from consultancy	4,493,000	7,541,000	9,975,000
	Income from equipment and facilities	51,000	61,000	47,000
	Income from regeneration	114,000	25,000	77,000
	Income from intellectual property	5,350,000	4,563,000	5,318,000
	Income from SMEs in the above categories^*	671,000	534,000	504,000
Innovate UK	KTP income^**	138,000	107,000	75,000
OfS annual financial return	Income from NCB provision	948,000	1,438,000	1,179,000
Total per year		12,143,000	14,599,000	17,686,000

Notes:

* Income from SMEs is included in the income stream total and again in the total income from SMEs to provide the overall double-weighting for SME income
** This is the KTP income provided by Innovate UK

Total weighted qualifying income (£), using 2:3:5 ratio = (2019-20 income x 2) + (2020-21 income x 3) + (2021-22 income x 5): 156,513,000

HEIF allocation

Main allocation (£): 1,942,585
Top-up allocation (£): 0
Total allocation (£): 1,942,585

Table F: 2023-24 HEIF formula parameters

Total HEIF budget

Main allocation (£): 240,000,000
Top-up allocation (£): 20,000,000
Total HEIF budget (£): 260,000,000

HEIF formula parameters

Main allocation

Minimum allocation threshold (£): 250,000
Maximum allocation (£): 4,670,000

Yearly moderation factor

Maximum increase: 10%
Maximum decrease: -10%

Top-up allocation

Minimum allocation (£): 200,000
Maximum allocation (£): 1,000,000