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| AHRC - Arts & Humanities Research Council |
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| Remit: See Eligibility for subject areas
Standard schemes:
| Research Grants - Standard route |
£20,000 - £1,000,000 FEC,
up to 5 years. OPEN call |
| Research Grants - Early Career route |
£20,000 - £200,000 FEC, up to 5 years. OPEN call |
| Research Networking Scheme |
For networks, workshops or seminars. Up to £30,000 FEC (additional £15,000 to cover international participants/activities), up to 2 years . OPEN call |
| Fellowship Scheme - Standard & Early Career |
MAX £120,000 FEC for salary and associated costs, 3-9 months. OPEN call |
| Follow on Funding (Pilot scheme) |
Supports engagement with non-HEI partners, based on research previously funded by the AHRC. Max £120,000 FEC, up to 12 months. OPEN call |
AHRC Electronic application: JeS
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| British
Academy |
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| Remit:
Humanities & the Social Sciences
Standard schemes:
| Postdoctoral Fellowship |
3 year Felowships, FEC. Deadline for outline applications is usually in October. |
| Mid-Career Fellowship |
£160,000 FEC. 6-12 months funding available. Deadline for outline usually March and November. |
| BA / Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship |
Replacement teaching costs, 1 year. (not FEC) Deadline is usually in November |
| Small Research Grant |
Up to £10,000 research expenses. Deadlines usually March and November. |
The BARDA scheme, Overseas Conference Grants and Conference Support Grants have been discontinued.
See also International section and Special Funds
British Academy electronic application: e-GAP2
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| ESRC - Economic & Social Research Council |
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| Thematic Priorities 2011-2015:
- Economic Performance & Sustainable Growth - enable the development of robust government and private sector strategies to ensure the sustainable growth of the UK economy
- Influencing Behaviour and Informing Interventions - Create a better understanding of how and why prople and organisations make decisions, and how these can be managed or influences
- A Vibrant and Fair Society - Develop ways to enhance the role and contributions of citizens, voluntary sector organisations and social enterprises to create a vibrant national and global society.
The ESRC have made some changes to their funding schemes - a number of schemes have closed (Small Grants, Post-doc and mid-career fellowships) and other schemes have been subject to revisons, as below.
Standard schemes:
| Standard grants |
£200,000 - £2,000,000,
OPEN call. |
| Large grants and centres |
The ESRC will be integrating their large grants and centre competitions. More information will be available shortly. |
| Future Leaders Scheme |
This replaces the postdoctoral fellowships and First Grants scheme. |
| Professorial Fellowship Scheme |
3 years, up to a maximum of 0.6FTE per year. |
| Seminars Competition |
Non-FEC up to £15,000 |
Collaborations and partnerships - The ESRC encourages collaborative work with a range of schemes and initiatives, including international programmes and Knowledge Exchange opportunites. More information can be found here:
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/collaboration/ ESRC Electronic application:
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| Leverhulme
Trust |
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Remit:
All subject areas, except social policy & Medicine
Funding: the main schemes are listed below
Grants - two stage application procedure
| Research Project
Grants |
Up to 3 years, £10,000
- £250,000; Up to 5 years, £250,000 - £500,000, three deadlines per year. |
| Programme Awards |
Up to 5 years, £1,750,000
max. Call date & topic set by funder. |
| International Networks |
UP to 3 years, max £125,000, three deadlines per year. |
| Artists in Residence |
UP to £15,000 for 10 months, two deadlines per year. |
Fellowships
| Early Career Fellowship |
2-3yrs, 50% salary cost (to be matched by HEI) plus research expenses. |
| Study Abroad Fellowship |
3-12 months, up to
£22,000, replacement teaching & research
expenses |
| Research Fellowship |
3-24 months, up to
£45,000, replacement teaching & research
expenses |
| Major Research Fellowship in
the Humanities & Social Science |
2-3yrs,
replacement teaching & research expenses |
| Visiting Professorship |
3-10 month visit to UK, travel costs
& some expenses |
And the yearly Philip Leverhulme Prizes, different
topics each year, deadline usually in May.
For a full list of all schemes click here: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/funding.cfm
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| Other
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The Nuffield Foundation has Project Grants in Social Policy.
The Wellcome Trust funds research into Medical History & Humanities; Ethics & Society and also has a number of art awards under its Public Engagement programme.
The European Framework programme 7 has a call line "Socio-economic science & the humanities" under the cooperation programme.
Many charities support the arts, use the Research
Funding Database to search under your subject area(s).
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