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Scarborough Research Day. Funding for new researchers. Internal Assistance. Funding opportunities produced fortnightly. Research Office homepage. Funding Initiatives Officer Phil Wiles (ext 5390). Conference & Travel Grants. Useful way to secure funds at an early stage of your career.
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Scarborough Research Day Funding for new researchers
Internal Assistance • Funding opportunities produced fortnightly. • Research Office homepage. • Funding Initiatives Officer Phil Wiles (ext 5390).
Conference & Travel Grants • Useful way to secure funds at an early stage of your career. • Provide familiarisation with the application process. • Demonstrate ability to deliver promises of application.
Conference & Travel Grants • British Academy – Overseas Conference Grants • Grants are available for the travel expenses of a scholar in the humanities or social sciences delivering a paper at a conference abroad. • Royal Society – Conference Grants • Support UK based scientists wishing to either present their own paper/poster or chair a session at an overseas conference. • British Academy – British Conference Grants • Provide a contribution towards the expenses of bringing key speakers from within the UK or from overseas to conferences held in the UK. • Royal Society – Short Visits to & from the UK • To initiate one-to-one collaborations and explore opportunities to build lasting networks between UK academics and overseas counterparts.
Small Grant Schemes • Support for smaller projects suitable for first time researchers. • Peer review process is often less intense. • Demonstrate the PI can successfully manage a project.
Small Grant Schemes • ESRC – Small Grants Scheme • Supports ‘Blue Skies’ research in the social sciences, particularly useful for new researchers making their first application to ESRC. • The British Academy – Small Grants Scheme • Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences, to support the direct costs of research. • The Nuffield Foundation – Social Science Small Grants Scheme • Aimed at projects that develop social science research capacity particularly by supporting the work of those new to social science research. • The Royal Society – Project Grants • Provides funding for research scientists at an early stage of their career or established scientists wishing to change the direction of their research.
New Investigator Schemes • Aim to encourage the development of new researchers. • Peer reviewed accounting for relative inexperience. • Avoid competing with more established researchers.
New Investigator Schemes • AHRC - Research Grant for Early Career Researchers • To assist researchers at the start of their careers in gaining experience of managing and leading research projects. • ESRC - First Grants Scheme • Aimed at assisting new researchers gain experience of managing and leading a research project. • NERC - New Investigator Competition • Annual competition aimed at Investigators at the start of their scientific career. • Leverhulme Trust – Early Career Fellowships • Career development opportunities for proven researchers who do not hold a full time academic position.