SpatiaLondon is grateful to our funders for making this network possible. Their support enables us to bring together London’s spatial biology community, build shared standards, and deliver training and events that are free and open to all. If you are interested in supporting the network, please see the sponsorship opportunities below.
The Crick and University Partnership Networking Fund supports cross-institutional collaboration between the Francis Crick Institute and its university partners. This grant funds SpatiaLondon’s full events programme, bringing the London spatial biology community together through symposia, data clubs, and hands-on training workshops.
- Opening symposium at KCL, Guy’s Campus (100 attendees)
- Three Data Clubs rotating across the Crick, UCL, and Imperial
- Three hands-on training workshops at HAB, KCL
- Closing symposium at the Francis Crick Institute with working groups and joint concept notes
DisCouRSE+ is a flexible funding programme supporting digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs) to lead community-building and standards work across UK research institutions. This grant funds SpatiaLondon’s gold-standard outputs — co-creating open, openly licensed tools and guidance that any UK team can adopt and reuse.
- Community bottleneck survey and mapping across partner institutions
- Co-creation of the open Spatial Methods Guide and one-page Checklist (CC-BY / MIT licence, published with DOI)
- Piloting the checklist on real datasets with dRTP feedback and revision clinics
- UK-wide open webinar launching Spatial Methods Guide v1.0
Support SpatiaLondon
SpatiaLondon is growing. We are actively seeking sponsors and partners to help us expand our training programme, grow the network beyond London, and deliver more open resources for the UK spatial biology community.