Category Archives: Research Support Grant

Nordic Culture Culture and Art Programme

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(Closing Date: Application period 18 August – 20 September 2017)

Nordic Culture Culture and Art Programme

https://www.nordiskkulturkontakt.org/en/grants/culture-and-art-programme

The Culture and Art Programme supports Nordic cooperation within art and culture. The general aim is to provide support to innovative projects of high artistic and cultural merit, that promote a multifaceted and sustainable Nordic region. 

About Nordic Culture Point

Nordic Culture Point is an official Nordic cultural institution. The organisation administers three Nordic funding programs, runs a cultural center and library in the heart of Helsinki, and arranges cultural events. The activities create physical, financial and digital space for Nordic culture.

Nordic Culture Point is an institution operating under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers. Further information is available at http://www.kulturkontaktnord.org/en

Application Type: 

Application forms are not available online until the start of the application period. Application forms must be completed online and submitted via your user account. Nordic Culture Point does not accept any other form of application, e.g. hard copy or e-mail.

Projects focusing on cultural and artistic production and creative work. The key word is innovation. This involves the development and trial of new ideas, concepts and processes.

  • The production of works, projects and initiatives that involve a creative process
  • The dissemination of works, projects and initiatives in a variety of contexts
  • Works that create a point where artists, other people involved in culture and audiences can meet

Production-based Activities are any sort of project that revolves around the creative process. Applications are welcome for funding for all phases of the production process: research, production, presentation and distribution. The funding may be used to cover any type of expenditure that is directly associated with the project.

When applying, one of three types of project must be selected:

  • Pre-project
    A pre-project is research to clarify the conditions for completing a larger project. Funding for a pre-project does not automatically lead to funding for the main project. Pre-projects are eligible for full funding up to €13 000.
  • Pilot project
    A pilot project is a trial of a larger project on a smaller scale. The maximum duration of a pilot project is one year. Funding for a pre-project does not automatically lead to funding for the main project. The maximum grant available to a pilot project is €40 000 and the maximum contribution from the Nordic Culture Point is 75 % of the total project budget.
  • Project
    A project must have a clear time frame and budget. A project may last up to three years. The maximum grant available to a project is €100 000 and the maximum contribution from the Nordic Culture point is 50% of the total project budget.

Discipline(s): Arts and cultural studies

Applicant status: Funding is available to the arts and culture sectors, whether professional, amateur or voluntary. Individuals, groups or organisations, associations and institutions

Collaboration/ Partnership: Yes

Wellcome Small Grants in Humanities and Social Science

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(There are no deadlines for this scheme – you can apply online at any time.)

Wellcome Small Grants in Humanities and Social Science

Small Grants fund programmes of activities that enable researchers to establish and develop networks, explore new areas of research and increase the impact of their work.

Max amount: A Small Grant is usually up to £30,000. Grants usually last for six to twelve months but the duration can be flexible, eg for a series of annual conferences.

You can apply for a Small Grant if you’re a humanities and social science researcher who wants to do one or more of the following:

  • establish and develop professional networks
  • explore new areas of research
  • increase the impact of your work.

You must propose a programme of events or activities, not one-off events or activities.

Max Duration: Flexible, usually 6 to 12 months but can be longer

Discipline(s): Humanities and Social Science

Applicant status: To apply for a Small Grant, you should have a track record in your area of research and apply through a university or other research organisation based in the UK. You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT).

Wellcome Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science

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(Closing Date: Preliminary applications deadline 4 July 2017)

Wellcome Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science

https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/collaborative-awards-humanities-and-social-science

Collaborative Awards promote the development of new ideas and bring disciplines together to speed the pace of discovery. This scheme funds teams who are tackling major health-related questions in the humanities and social sciences that require a collaborative approach.

You can apply for a Collaborative Award if you have a team of two to six principal applicants. Each applicant should have a good track record in their area of research, relative to their career stage.

We’re looking for teams with a track record of working together to tackle research questions that can only be approached collaboratively. Teams can come from the same discipline or from a combination of disciplines. They can be from the same university department or a number of organisations (anywhere in the world).

We encourage applications that combine humanities and social science research with biomedical science research and/or product development and applied research. Please contact us if you’re not sure which area to apply to.

Important factors when we evaluate your application are:

  • the environment in which you do your research
  • the support your host organisation provides.

Application Type: You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker

We’ll assess your eligibility and suitability, and give you a decision within six weeks of the preliminary application deadline. If suitable, we will invite you to submit a full application.

Max amount: Up to £1.5 million including research expenses and assistance, research or teaching buy-out leave and conference and meeting costs

Max Duration:  up to five years

Discipline(s): Humanities and Social Science

Applicant status: a team of two to six principal applicants. Each applicant should have a good track record in their area of research, relative to their career stage.

Collaboration/ Partnership: Yes

International: Yes

Wellcome Seed Awards in Humanities and Social Science

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(Closing Date: Deadline to be confirmed)

Wellcome Seed Awards in Humanities and Social Science

https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/seed-awards-humanities-and-social-science

Wellcome Seed Awards help researchers develop compelling and innovative ideas that may go on to form part of larger grant applications.

Offered for proposals that aim to develop new approaches or collaborations in the humanities and social sciences. Activities can include:

  • pilot and scoping studies
  • planning sessions
  • meetings of collaborative networks.

Application Type: Submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker.

Max amount: £25,000 to £50,000

Max Duration: 6 to 12 months

Discipline(s): Humanities and Social Science

Applicant status: Early, Intermediate, Senior, Returning to research

Collaboration/ Partnership: Yes

AHRC Highlight Notices

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Summary of Highlight Notices

Highlight notices are intended to stimulate proposals under specified themes /strategic priorities in order to rapidly advance thinking or collaboration in these areas. Highlight notices are offered as opportunities within existing AHRC research schemes and are therefore assessed under the same criteria and assessment process.

Highlight notices are applied for a set period of time, for example 12 months, and the descriptions are usually intended to guide inquiry rather than prescribe individual research topics.

Proposals relevant to the highlight notice can be submitted at any time while the highlight notice is in existence. All proposals will be assessed on their quality and individual merits according to standard scheme criteria. Although proposals addressing the highlight notice will not be given priority in the assessment or ranking of applications, supplementary funding may be made available to support additional highly rated applications addressing the highlight notices that may not have otherwise been funded under the existing scheme budgets. As a result, applications addressing highlight notices may have an increased chance of funding, but only if they fully meet the excellence criteria for the scheme and high international standards of scholarship, originality, quality and significance as judged through peer review.

If your proposal is funded under a highlight notice, you will be expected to produce a short report at the end of the award summarising the outcomes of the work undertaken and the potential for the future development of the topic of the highlight notice. For example by highlighting potential innovative new multi-disciplinary research, partnership, international links, researcher development, or knowledge exchange opportunities.

Current Highlight Notices

Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme: Creative Economy Highlight Notice

The AHRC has identified the creative economy as an area of strategic importance as evidenced by our Delivery Plan 2016-20. The AHRC has established and supported a number of knowledge exchange and research initiatives which have enriched and supported growth within the creative economy. During the last spending period (2011-2015), the AHRC spent circa £100m on research related to creative economy interests.

Arts and humanities research plays an important role in accelerating innovation within the creative economy, and the AHRC is committed to supporting and strengthening these collaborations. To achieve this, the AHRC are launching a highlight notice in our Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement (FoF) scheme. The aim of the highlight notice is to encourage applications exploring innovative ways to enhance engagement with the creative economy, and maximise opportunities for impact within the creative economy.

Proposed activities must enhance the value and wider benefit of the original research and/or knowledge exchange project, and clearly demonstrate how they will deliver significant economic, social, cultural and/or policy impacts for the creative economy.

AHRC welcomes proposals which build upon existing, or nurture new partnerships in the creative economy either in the UK or internationally, and which have strong potential to deliver impact.

Highlight notices are intended to stimulate proposals addressing strategic priorities or emerging research areas in order to encourage innovation, new thinking and/or the development of collaborations in these areas. Highlight notices are offered as opportunities within existing AHRC research schemes, although in this case highlight applications will be considered through a different assessment process to other FoF applications.

The application form for highlight applications is available in Je-S.

For full details and application form please follow the link below:

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/current/follow-on-funding-for-impact-and-engagement-scheme-creative-economy-highlight-notice/

Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards

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(Closing Date: Next round to be announced in Spring 2019

Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards

The aim is to support talented scholars who have successfully launched a university career but who need to build a research team of sufficient scale to tackle a distinctive research problem. This creates an opportunity for the development and demonstration of research leadership; that is, for the direction of a modest team or group, whose research may significantly change the established landscape in a particular field of inquiry. Each institution is limited to one bid only.

 

Once a university has selected their chosen candidate, they should provide the Trust with the applicant’s name, departmental affiliation and email address. Access will then be granted to the Trust’s online Grant Application System.

Max amount: The awards will be for a sum of between £800,000 and £1 million

(i)    Salaries for research staff

At least 75% of the resources requested must be used to provide funding for research staff (research assistants; postgraduate students).

There will be no provision for replacement teaching or overhead expenditures, nor for the salary costs of the Principal Applicant.

(ii)    Associated research costs

These can be included up to a maximum of 25% of the total budget. This percentage is a maximum and not a target. The following are examples of such eligible costs:

  • Technical, computing, clerical staff costs.
  • Travel and subsistence costs directly related to the research activity. These can include conference attendance provided that such attendance can be shown to make a direct contribution to the research project.
  • Consumable costs.

Max Duration: Over 4 – 5 years

 

Applicant status:

  • Eligible institutions are universities in the UK.
  • Eligible applicants will have held a university post for at least two years but will not yet have developed their academic career such that the trajectory of their research contribution has become firmly established.

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation – Grants and Awards

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(Closing Date: For Small Grant and Award applications 31 March 2017 and 30 September 2017)

The Foundation awards grants to individuals and institutions in the UK and Japan in all areas of the visual and performing arts, the humanities, the social sciences, science and engineering, mathematics, business studies, and education, including schools and universities, and grass roots and professional groups.

Grant-giving is carried out via the following programmes:

DAIWA FOUNDATION SMALL GRANTS

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity including :

  • educational and grassroots exchanges
  • research travel
  • organisation of conferences
  • exhibitions
  • other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged.

Grants of £2,000-£7,000 are available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries.

http://www.dajf.org.uk/grants-awards-prizes/daiwa-foundation-small-grants

DAIWA FOUNDATION AWARDS

Daiwa Foundation Awards can cover projects in most academic, professional, arts, cultural and educational fields. (Applications in the field of science can also be considered.)

Awards seek to encourage the development and sustainability of UK-Japan partnerships between such organisations as museums and art galleries, theatres and performing arts groups, schools and universities, and grassroots and professional bodies. Any project which involves a significant level of collaboration between British and Japanese partners can be considered.

Awards of £7,000-£15,000 are available for collaborative projects that enable British and Japanese partners to work together, preferably in the context of an institutional relationship.

Application Applicants are invited to apply online. Please read the application notes before starting your online application

http://www.dajf.org.uk/grants-awards-prizes/daiwa-foundation-awards

Email  grants@dajf.org.uk

 

Dr Anne Galliot is the Research Development Adviser for the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton.

AHRC São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

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(Closing Date: No Deadline)

AHRC São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

In 2009 Research Councils UK (RCUK) and FAPESP, the Research Council for the State of São Paulo, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to welcome, encourage and support proposals that may cut across our national boundaries and involve international collaborative teams. This agreement was renewed in September 2012 and the current agreement will run until 31 December 2015.

The MoU provides for a ‘Lead Agency Agreement’ whereby the relevant UK Research Council will receive and assess collaborative proposals from eligible institutions on behalf of both organisations. FAPESP nominated experts will be involved with the peer review and decision making processes throughout. For further information see the RCUK/FAPESP Memorandum of Understanding.

For all routes of the research grants scheme you must submit an application through the cross-council Joint Electronic Submission – (Je-S) System. If you need any assistance to use the system, please contact the JE-S helpdesk on 01793 444164 or on JesHelp@rcuk.ac.uk.

In addition, the following guidelines apply: AHRC-FAPESP Collaborative Funding Guidelines (PDF)

Costs: AHRC will accept proposals with a total full economic cost (fEC) of between £50,000 and £1,000,000 under the standard route, or £50,000 to £250,000 under the early career route for the UK component of the project. If the application is successful, the AHRC will contribute 80% of these costs.

FAPESP will accept proposals of up to the equivalent of £1,000,000 for the Brazilian component of the project; bringing the total of the whole proposal up to an equivalent maximum of £2,000,000. Please note, only the UK component is costed under fEC.

Transnational teams (UK and São Paulo-based researchers) are invited to apply directly to the AHRC under the Research Grants Scheme. For more information please refer to: 

Max Duration: 60 months

Discipline(s): Arts and humanitites

To discuss this further please contact Dr Anne Galliot in the CRD or the Research Office.

Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grants

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(Closing Date: 30 September 2017)

Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grants

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art offers a variety of Fellowships (for individuals) and Grants (for institutions and individuals) twice a year in a strictly timetabled schedule.  The programme supports scholarship, academic research and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of British art and architectural history from the medieval period to the present, although all supported topics must have an historical perspective.

RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS are offered in Spring and Autumn each year to assist with research travel costs. They are offered to scholars already engaged in research involving the study of British art or architectural history. Grants may be used towards the expenses incurred in visiting collections, libraries, archives or historic sites with the United Kingdom or abroad for research purposes.

Applications are made through the online system where you can see further information about the award categories and be able to register and start the application process.  You will need the name and email address of one or two referees.  The Advisory Council meets to decide on the awards in March and October. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application within three weeks of the Advisory Council meeting. You will receive a decision by the end of March or the end of October depending on the round in which you apply.

These grants are offered for specific research visits and individuals may claim for the following costs in line with the limits given below:

  • Fares (in full)
  • Accommodation (up to a maximum of £100 per night)
  • Daily subsistence (£40 per day)

Conference attendance, costs of photography, photocopying, computers, cameras or other equipment DO NOT come within the scope of this award and such costs must not be included in any application.

Max amount: £2,000

Discipline(s): Architectural history and British Art

Applicant status: Academics, scholars, postgraduate students and independent researchers are eligible to apply with the stipulation that their research is in the field of British art or architectural history and is of a scholarly nature.