External Research Grant Income
Total funding secured from external bodies for research activities
What is External Research Grant Income?
External research grant income is the total value of research grants awarded to an institution from outside funders in a period. It shows how successful researchers are in winning funding.
Grant income supports research activity and is a widely used sign of research quality and reputation.
How this KPI is measured
- Function
- Product & Engineering
- Sub-function
- Research Funding
- Industry
- Education
- Type
- Lagging
- Impact
- Revenue
- Unit
- $
- Measurement frequency
- Annual
- Formula
- Sum of all external research grants awarded in period
How to calculate it
Add up all external research grants awarded in the period.
For example, if a university was awarded grants totalling 48,000,000 in a year, external research grant income is 48,000,000.
Report by funder and by discipline, and consider expressing it per academic staff member to compare across departments of different sizes.
Where it is used
Measuring research success
Track funding won.
Planning research investment
Understand capacity.
Comparing departments
See strengths.
How to improve it
Tips and common mistakes
- Award value is not the same as cash received in the year.
- Compare per academic staff member.
- Funding levels differ by discipline.
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