Royal Society Paul Instrument Fund

Funding for scientists in the UK to design and construct apparatus to measure phenomena in the physical sciences. 

The Royal Society Paul Instrument Fund (PIF) provides grants for the design and construction of apparatus to measure phenomena in the physical sciences. Applications should contain genuinely new ideas, techniques or highly novel applications of existing ideas and techniques.

The design and construction of a novel instrument as a result of combining several concepts and/or commercially available parts is only acceptable if the result is greater and more innovative than the sum of the constituent parts.