Pivot-Research Professional (Pivot-RP)
Pivot-RP is a comprehensive, searchable database of research funding opportunities from around the world across all disciplines, funder types and project types.
As competition for research funding continues to rise and success rates for major funding agencies fall, it is timely to consider employing Pivot-RPTM to help you diversify your research funding.
Provided by ClarivateTM, Pivot-RP includes superior functionality for personalised searching, tracking and notifications about research funding opportunities that are relevant to your research.
By creating and maintaining a personal Pivot-RP account, you will have access to a wide range of funding opportunities that are aligned with your discipline area/s, research interests and career stage. What's more, Pivot-RP will deliver relevant opportunities that you are eligible to apply for directly to your inbox.
Pivot-RP can help you find both Australian and international opportunities for research funding from diverse funding bodies, including public funding institutions, not-for-profit opportunities (e.g Philanthropic) and research partnership opportunities.
Pivot-RP can also identify potential collaborators among Macquarie University researchers and other organisations that use Pivot-RP, in addition to details about:
- awarded grants
- upcoming conferences
- research funding-related news
- grant development ‘know-how.’
With smart search tools and curated listings, finding the right funding has never been easier. Let Pivot-RP help you turn your research ideas into reality!
Available on demand:
- Introduction to Pivot-RP – Overview of features and benefits (10-15 minutes)
- Tailored BYO laptop workshops (10-15 participants) for lab or other groups (eg ECRs), Departments, or Centres to guide participants in setting up searches, tracking and sharing opportunities and email notifications re relevant funding opportunities
Email rs.pivot-rp@mq.edu.au to register interest or for further information about workshops.
Pivot-RP website:https://pivot.proquest.com
You must set up a personal account to have full functionality in Pivot-RP.
This will allow you to:
- receive customised funding alerts
- save and return to previous funding searches
- track and receive email updates about relevant funding opportunities
- share funding opportunities with others
Step 1 – Create an account
To create an account:
- Open Pivot-RP
- Click on Create Account
- MQ Academic and Professional staff should choose 'Use Institutional Login Credentials' and select Macquarie University from the Institution drop-down menu for single sign-on with your Macquarie University ID (OneID) and password
- Activate your account once you receive email validation from Pivot-RP.
Watch video guide to setting up an account.
Step 2 – Claim your profile
Pivot-RP will prompt you to claim or to create a researcher profile when you log in for the first time.
Claiming or creating your profile, will enable the AI-driven Pivot-RP Funding Advisor to send you automated funding recommendations that match your research interests, based on the information in your Pivot-RP profile. Your Pivot-RP profile also allows potential collaborators to find you.
Macquarie University researcher profiles were created in 2023 based on publicly available information. If you started at MQ after 2023, you need to create a profile.
Investing time to ensure your profile is accurate and reflects your research interests is the most effective way to ensure that Pivot-RP Funding Advisor recommendations meet your needs.
Please contact our team if you require assistance to create a profile in Pivot-RP (rs.pivot-rp@mq.edu.au).
Pivot-RP’s intelligent Advisor feature automatically shares funding opportunities with you. The Advisor analyses several areas of your profile and displays funding opportunities based on its analysis. The more details you include in your profile, the better the quality of matches you can expect from the Advisor.
IMPORTANT:
- Check that your profile includes one or more 'Keywords' that accurately describe your research topic. Browse the Pivot-RP Keyword tree to select those most relevant to your resear. You can have multiple Keywords.
- Ensure that the profile includes your ORCID. Once your profile is claimed and an ORCID is added, future ORCID updates are synced into the Pivot-RP profile.
Once you have claimed your profile, Advisor will send you weekly emails whenever there are new funding opportunities that match your profile. The full list of your Advisor-recommended funding opportunities is available in ‘My Funding Opportunities’ on the Pivot-RP home page.
When viewing search results, you can check one or multiple opportunities, then select ‘Track’ to save them in a Tracked list.
Pivot-RP will send an email alert to advise when the scheme opens or if there are changes to deadlines or eligibility constraints for tracked funding opportunities.
A link to the full list of your Tracked funding opportunities is available from ‘My Funding Opportunities’ on the home page.
Pivot-RP allows you to set up searches to identify bespoke funding opportunities tailored to your personal research interests.
Pivot-RP Knowledge Centre guides: Searching for Funding as a User
You can enter a search from the home dashboard or select the Funding tab for more options.
Basic searches
You can use free text search terms, or search by funder or keywords.
- Free text search: enter multi-word terms and use quotation marks and Boolean operators such as AND and OR for more precise results
- Keyword searches: keywords are pre-defined terms that Pivot-RP editors match to funding opportunities. Start with broad keywords, then narrow results using filters (eg career stage or funding type - from left column of search results screen), or 'refine' your search by adding more specific terms based on the results you receive.
- Search by funder: enter the funder name or browse an A-to-Z list of all the funders that Pivot-RP is tracking.
Pivot-RP Funding search tips (pdf).
Watch video on basic searching.
Advanced search
On the Funding tab or home dashboard, select ‘Advanced Search’. You will see a variety of options for searching specific fields and for pre-scoping your search by specific criteria such as funding type, funder type, award amount, upcoming deadline and applicant type.
Watch video on advanced searching.
Refine search
After viewing your Pivot-RP search results, you can refine it (ie change keywords, add/subtract search parameters) to expand or otherwise refine the search results.
Select ‘Refine Search’ from the top of the search results page. The 'new' search retains the initial search criteria. From here, change any keywords or other parameters. Then, click Search to launch your refined search.
Watch video guide to funding searches.
Watch video guide on viewing search results.
Save a search and set up email alerts
If you are signed into your Pivot-RP account, you can save your search query so you can come back to it, rather than having to remember the combination of keywords and parameters that you selected.
Select ‘Save Search’, located from the top of the search results page.
To retrieve a saved search, select ‘Saved Searches’ from ‘My Funding Opportunities’ on the home page. Select the desired search to rerun for updates.
Watch video guide to saving a search and setting up email alerts.
If you are signed into your Pivot-RP account, you can set up email alerts for saved searches and tracked funding opportunities using the Options menu within the table of search results.
The Options menu also enables the sharing of saved searches and funding opportunities with others, such as your research team and collaborators.
Watch video guide to setting up alerts and sharing funding opportunities.