Feb 16
BBSRC have just launched a new call aimed at harnessing crowd-sourcing approaches to tackle large and complex scientific problems, which have relevance to one or more of their strategic priorities: BBSRC: Crowd-sourcing for biological sciences What are they looking for? Successful proposals will involve a range of disciplinary approaches, including bioscience expertise, ICT, design and …
Feb 15
The latest round of the popular British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants call has recently opened, with a deadline of 10th April 2013. Small grants support humanities and social science research projects between £500 and £10,000. Funding is available for: initial stage project planning and development, e.g. pilot studies direct costs of research, e.g. library and …
Feb 04
Here is a selection of the funding calls and opportunities included in our regular funding update. View them all on our Funding Opportunities page. AHRC & Others – Research Projects in Cultural Heritage JPI Cultural Heritage invites proposals for its joint transnational call for proposals on the subject cultural heritage and global change: a new …
Jan 31
Are you at the beginning of your research career – with the potential to be world-class? Is your research in the physical, natural or social sciences or humanities? Do you want to build and maintain links with leading researchers in the UK? The 2013 round of the Newton International Fellowships is open, with a deadline of 10th April 2013. The …
Dec 14
We’ve added a new feature to the blog today – a funding opportunities page which will be updated regularly with the latest calls and upcoming deadlines for the months ahead. This contains information on funder, limits, deadlines, a summary of the call as well as a link to the funder’s webpage. Every time the page …
Sep 18
The ever-popular British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grants scheme has reopened this week, with a deadline of 7th November 2012: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants You may recall that the Leverhulme Trust announced their support for the small grants scheme earlier this year. Small grants support humanities and social science research projects between £500 and £10,000. Funding is available …
Sep 07
Your research could meet the needs of SMEs Research for the Benefit of SMEs is a European funding programme with a budget of €250M which supports research and technological development to meet the needs of SMEs across Europe. This is done by subcontracting research and development activities to RTD performers (e.g. universities). It is a “bottom up” …
Sep 03
The next deadline for KTP submissions is 22nd November 2012 so if you’re thinking of applying, you’ll need to prepare an Expression of Interest, then a full application. This process takes around 6-8 weeks in total so you need to be thinking of starting by mid-September. Please contact KTP manager Bill Frain for further information and support. What’s a …
Aug 23
Over the past couple of weeks, EPSRC has released a raft of new calls for proposals across its research remit. The calls range from expressions of interest to attend early stage scoping workshops to large scale centres of excellence. I’ve summarised the key points for each below with a link to find out more. If …
Jul 30
The next deadline for KTP submissions is 4th October 2012 so if you’re thinking of applying, you’ll need to prepare an Expression of Interest, then a full application. This process takes around 6-8 weeks in total so you need to be thinking of starting in early August. Please contact KTP manager Bill Frain for further …
