The 2022 Doctoral Studies call now open, closing on the last day of February 2022. RADMA has been supporting research in R&D Management for over 40 years.

The award provides up to three years funding to talented prospective or mid-study PhD students, offering them the opportunity to concentrate on their research for the period of the award. The expectation is that candidates will have a Masters degree in a relevant field or an excellent first degree or equivalent.

Awards will be granted to and administered through the institution, not individual candidates. The award will cover costs related to fees and specified living expenses up to a maximum of £20,109 per academic year (pro-rata for part-time students; partial funding is a possibility) and conditional upon the receipt of acceptable annual progress reports.

Funding for R&D Management students

Many students have gained support from RADMA to pursue their studies or to present their work at conferences.

Some of those that have benefited are featured in our ‘Celebrating 40 years category‘ 

RADMA provides funding in the following areas:

• Doctoral studies (annual call)
• Postgraduate student research support (open call)
• Student attendance at the R&D Management Conference (annual call)
• RADMA has regular calls for applications to these funding streams.

Funded themes

Support is generally focused on the field of ‘R&D management’. Though not intended as a rigorous and exhaustive list, the following themes may be understood as a working definition of the field.

• Management and exploitation of scientific and technological activity within firms and public bodies
• Determinants of organisation-level performance in research, development, product design and innovation
• The interaction of organisation-wide processes such as strategy formulation and human resources with R&D
• The relationship between organisation-level activities and performance, and national and regional innovation systems or technology, science and industrial policies

For more information and how to apply see the website: RADMA