Solent 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 (£): 215,975
London weighting on mainstream QR (£): 0
Mainstream QR funds including London weighting (£): 215,975
QR charity support fund (£): 5,180
QR business research element (£): 0
QR RDP supervision funds (£): 29,689
QR funding for National Research Libraries (£): 0
Total QR funding (£): 250,844

Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF)

Main allocation (£): 1,165,892
Top-up allocation (£): 0
Total HEIF (£): 1,165,892

Total QR and HEIF grant (£): 1,416,736

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 (£): 63,000
AFR20 Research income from charities (£): 35,000
AFR21 Research income from charities (£): 0
AFR22 Research income from charities (£): 10,000
Average annual income (£): 27,000
London-weighted research income (£)*: 27,000
QR charity support fund (£)**: 5,180

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 (£): 0
AFR20 Research income from businesses (£): 0
AFR21 Research income from businesses (£): 0
AFR22 Research income from businesses (£): 0
Average annual income (£): 0
QR business research element (£)*: 0

Rate: 0

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	0	80,000	167,000
	Income from consultancy	43,000	230,000	83,000
	Income from equipment and facilities	241,000	70,000	115,000
	Income from regeneration	1,120,000	8,000	144,000
	Income from intellectual property	874,000	925,000	850,000
	Income from SMEs in the above categories^*	481,000	513,000	691,000
Innovate UK	KTP income^**	0	0	0
OfS annual financial return	Income from NCB provision	4,380,000	4,945,000	6,375,000
Total per year		7,139,000	6,771,000	8,425,000

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): 76,716,000

HEIF allocation

Main allocation (£): 1,165,892
Top-up allocation (£): 0
Total allocation (£): 1,165,892

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