Reporting progress
We require an annual and final report on the progress of your grant. These are linked to the financial cycle of the grant and should be submitted via our online grants management system.
Every year of your grant, you will be required to submit an annual report within six weeks of the anniversary of your award. Failure to do so will result in suspension of further payments.
If your grant is running for 12 months or less, or you are in the final year of your grant, we require a final report with a financial summary, signed by both the grant holder and the institutes finance office, within six weeks of the end of the grant.
The final report must be submitted via the online grants management system. The final quarterly payment is automatically withheld until receipt and approval of the final report.
Please note that annual and final reports should detail progress adequately and the Diabetes UK Research Team may ask for more information before accepting an annual or final report.
You must also acknowledge Diabetes UK in all publications arising from the awarded grant and provide copies of those publications. Please refer to section 8 of our Grant Conditions for further information.
Please also note that our supporters raise funds for our research, and that prompt reporting of progress is essential so we can feed back to our supporters.
Communicating about your research
Our Research Communications team is here to help bring your research closer to people living with and affected by diabetes, to make sure they are inspired by your work and aware of the impact of their donations. We can share your latest news and help to raise the profile of your research via the media, our website, social media, newsletters and magazines.
As noted in the Diabetes UK grant conditions, please get in touch with us straight away if you have research that you are about to publish. This will allow us to consider the best way to disseminate your work and give us time to prepare communications. Please do not wait for your annual report to let us know.
If you have begun working with your institution’s press office to publicise your research, please also let us know as early as possible.
Diabetes UK also submits all research projects in the Europe PubMed Central open-access repository, a platform for worldwide access to life science publications and preprints.
In addition, the team may invite you to host Diabetes UK supporters at lab visits, give talks to supporters, or request to interview you to share your story through our communications channels.
We also encourage you to attend Diabetes UK’s Professional Conference, where you can meet our team and other researchers, and showcase your progress.
For support with any of the above, please contact the team at researchcomms@diabetes.org.uk.
How we measure impact
Reporting your progress and impact is crucial for us to understand how our funding is benefiting you and those affected by diabetes. While breakthroughs take time, we want to capture shorter-term progress, such as publications, new methods, engagement activities, collaborations, career advancements, additional funding, policy influences, and clinical impacts of your research. We may also reach out for follow-up questionnaires to understand the long-term impact of your research after your grant has finished, as we hope the support we provided with our grant schemes can benefit you for years to come.
For any queriers about how we monitor and evaluate our research impact, please contact: Jocelyn.LeBlanc@diabetes.org.uk
