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Target Audience: Research staff and anyone else involved in research

Discover Pivot-RP: Your Gateway to Research Funding and Collaboration

Please direct all enquiries to Melissa Brown (research & KE coordinator, RKES; melissa.brown@strath.ac.uk).

Training session for researchers and research support staff

Looking to discover new funding opportunities, connect with potential collaborators and make the most of Pivot-RP?

Join us for an interactive training session designed to introduce you to Pivot-RP, our research funding discovery and collaboration platform. Pivot-RP is the sister product of Research Professional and that we now subscribe to this as it can push funding opps straight to Worktribe and start your application. Research Professional will no longer be available from the end of November. So, you need to set up your profile on Pivot RP and recreate your funding searches and alert to continue receiving them., this session will provide practical guidance on navigating the platform and making the most of its features.

What will you learn?

During this session, we will explore the key functionalities of Pivot-RP, including:

1. Accessing Pivot-RP

• How to access your Pivot-RP account.
• Claiming and amending your researcher profile.
• Discovering other researchers and enhancing your visibility to potential collaborators.

2. Discovering funding opportunities

Learn how to find relevant funding opportunities using Pivot-RP’s comprehensive funding database, including:

• Using the funding discovery wheel.
• Navigating the simple search, including free text, discipline and funder searches.
• Understanding funding opportunity overviews.
• Exploring advanced search options to refine your funding searches.

3. Making the most of Pivot-RP’s content and collaboration tools

Discover how to organise, manage and share funding information, as well as connect with other researchers:

• Tracking and saving funding opportunities.
• Tagging funding opportunities for easy organisation.
• Sharing and downloading funding information.
• Using the calendar view to help manage funding deadlines.
• Finding potential collaborators.
• Creating groups to support research collaboration and networking.

4. Additional features and functionality

We will also explore some of Pivot-RP’s additional tools, including:

• The awards database.
• Finding conferences and similar events organised by topic.

Who should attend?

This session is ideal for researchers, academics and research support colleagues who want to improve their awareness of funding opportunities, build research connections and develop their use of Pivot-RP.

Whether you are looking for your next research grant, seeking collaborators or exploring conferences and awards, this training will help you get started.

Why attend?

By the end of the session, you will have a better understanding of how to:

• Search for and identify relevant funding opportunities.
• Tailor your researcher profile to increase visibility.
• Organise and manage funding searches.
• Connect with potential research collaborators.
• Explore additional research and networking opportunities.

Join us and discover how Pivot-RP can support your research funding and collaboration journey.

We look forward to welcoming you!

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Accessibility Statement

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff:

For online activity:

• The session will take place on [software i.e. Zoom, Teams] [insert information about online provision]
• Auto-captions will be enabled
• There will / will not be audience participation
• You can keep your camera off / You are asked to keep your camera on
• You can drop into the session / You are asked to attend the whole session
• There will be a break / There will be several breaks throughout the session
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance of delivery as standard / upon request.
• [Any other access info, e.g. live captions available, BSL interpretation]
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

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