Policies and information for grants

We have a range of policies to support researchers applying for our grants and our grantholders.

Find the details of our policies and further information to help you apply for funding and manage your grants.

Major advances have come from the research we’ve supported – helping to improve treatment and care for people living with Parkinson’s, both within the UK and worldwide. The main output of this research is new ideas and knowledge, which we expect researchers to publish in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals. 

In line with other major funders, we believe the best way to share these papers as widely as possible is through free, unrestricted, online access. This means that the research we fund can be used to its best advantage by researchers all over the world, to the ultimate benefit of people with Parkinson’s.

Our grantholders can publish any of our funded research for free on AMRC Open Research, including research articles, data and software articles, systematic reviews, and study protocols. 

We're committed to ensuring that the outputs of the research we fund, including data, are managed so they have the maximum benefit for people with Parkinson's.

Making research data widely available to the research community quickly and responsibly means data can be verified, built on and used to advance knowledge and generate improvements in health.

Investigators carrying out research involving human study participants must ensure that consent is obtained to share information. Furthermore the necessary legal, ethical and regulatory permissions regarding data sharing should be in place prior to disclosing any data. Every effort must be made to protect the identity of study participants and, prior to sharing, data should be anonymised. In addition, any indirect identifiers that may lead to deductive disclosures should be removed to reduce the risk of identification. In most instances, sharing data should be possible without compromising the confidentiality of participants but if there are circumstances where data needs to be restricted due to the inability to protect confidentiality this should be fully addressed in the data management and sharing plan.

We consider it good research practice for all researchers to plan at proposal stage how they will manage and share the data they generate. Applicants for funding should provide a data management and sharing plan as part of their application for review.