British Academy – quantitative skills acquisition awards

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Esther KNIGHT

British Academy Skills Acquisition Awards

Full information: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/skills_acquisition.cfm

Quantitative Skills Acquisition Awards of up to £10,000 are available to support the career development of early career scholars – i.e. those within 10 years of the award of their Phd. who are in established academic posts. These awards aim to develop and enhance their quantitative skills by providing an award to enable early career researchers to spend some time with a mentor at a specialist centre in the field.

This scheme was introduced by the Academy in 2013. Around 20 awards are expected to be available in the next round of competition, with the aim of providing funding to:

· Support specific skills acquisition
· Benefit outstanding researchers
· Encourage the development of networks and future partnerships.

The scheme enables researchers to spend time with a mentor in a research group specialising in quantitative methods, and will also provide some funding to meet the costs of a mentor.

Costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence can be applied for, together with a contribution to the cost of teaching relief for the applicant, and the time of the mentor, and although the maximum award is up to £10,000 over 12 months, the average value of award is expected to be significantly lower.

Applications will consist of three main components:

First, the researcher should outline the project s/he intends to work on with a named mentor (the researcher would need to identify them in advance), explaining how this relates to longer-term career development. S/he should also demonstrate additionality i.e. explain that this funding to develop their quantitative skills would not otherwise be available.
Second, the researcher’s Head of Department should confirm that no existing resource is available to provide for the planned skills acquisition, and how the proposal relates to the department’s research strategy. A key aim of the scheme is to ensure that the programme supported new activity, rather than substituting costs already borne by institutions.
Third, the mentor with whom the researcher plans to work should outline the support to be made available to the researcher and the time that they would make available.

All applications should demonstrate that Academy funds are sought for a clearly defined, discrete piece of research, which will have an identifiable outcome on completion of the Academy-funded component of the research.

Closing Date

The closing date for applications for the next round of skills acquisition awards will be 30 October 2013. Application forms will only be available on the e-GAP system from 4 September 2013. The starting date of grants in this round will be not earlier than 1 September 2014 and not later than 1 April 2015.

Award information

Level of award: up to £10,000.
Period of award: grants are tenable for up to 12 months.
Further information: View Frequently Asked Questions.

Free time from Teaching with the British Academy

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Holly Hoar

Many academics struggle to get the time to carry out research. This fund from the British Academy offers free time from teaching. British Academy funding if for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Applications must be made of their online system. Once submitted they need to be approved by the Universities External Projects Team by the deadline of 18/09/13, so make sure you let the team know you are applying in advance. externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk

Funding Body: British Academy

Scheme: Mid-career Fellowships

Overview: Time freed from normal teaching and administrative commitments to devote to the completion of a major piece of research.

Through this scheme the academy intends to support individual researchers with excellent research proposals and to promote public understanding and engagement with the humanities and social sciences.

Individuals employed at UK universities or other higher education institutions are eligible to apply. Fellowships are intended primarily to provide opportunities for scholars who have already published works of intellectual distinction or have established a significant track record as an excellent communicator and a champion in their field, and who are normally no more than 15 years from the award of their doctorate.

Fellowships can be held over a minimum of six months and a maximum of 12 months, beginning in the autumn of 2014.

Budget: The total value of a fellowship is not expected to exceed £160,000.

Deadlines: 18 September 2013

Further Information: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/midcareer.cfm

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Exploratory Research Grants – Low Income Countries

Posted on August 22, 2013 by ejd2

Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) and Centre for Economic Policy Research have Exploratory Grants between £10,000 – £35,000 available to promote research in the following four research themes:

Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data
Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
The role of export-oriented industries in driving growth

Proposals should inform policy and support researchers to explore new approaches to the study of firms in low-income-countries (LICs) and develop sources of data on firms in LICs. Cross cutting themes encouraged include fragile and conflict affected states, gender and climate, environment and social compliance.

The deadline for bid submission is 30th September. Further details: http://pedl.cepr.org/content/exploratory-research-grants-0

Ethics and rights in a security context

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Holly Hoar

This fund aligns with a number of the research areas in the University. It looks like a good opportunity for a few ARCs to collaborate. As well as collaboration across the University, applications would need to collaborate with other institutions. The Research Council UK is keen to see a cross-disciplinary approach to this research.

Anyone interested in pursuing this fund should make sure they attend the Town Meeting on 23 September 2013 (details from the web link below). Plus they should get in touch with the External projects Team externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk to say they are following it up, this will help us to make a University orientated response rather than just a faculty based response.

Funding Body: ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC

Scheme: Ethics and rights in a security context

Overview: The Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invite proposals for their ethics and right in a security context, under the Research Councils UK Global Uncertainties programme. This call aims to develop greater understanding of how questions of ethics and rights play out in a security environment, with a focus on government. The call focuses on the following research themes:

•legitimacy; •jurisdiction; •autonomy; •temporality; •surveillance; •protection; •agency.

Collaborative research groups which address at least two of the councils’ remits may apply. Projects are for a duration of 24 months. It is anticipated that eight to 10 research grants will be awarded. Grants will commence on 1 September 2014.

Budget: The total budget for this call is between £2 million and £2.5m. Funding is worth up to £200,000 at 80 per cent of the full economic costs

Deadlines: 21 November 2013

Further Information: http://www.globaluncertainties.org.uk/funding/pre-call-ethics-and-rights-in-a-security-context.aspx

Funding for new teaching and learning developments in marketing

Posted on July 25, 2013 by ejd2

The Academy of Marketing has grants of up to £2000 to support research into teaching and learning related to marketing. They are looking to fund projects involving pedagogic research into innovative and effective learning, teaching and assessment methods. There is a deadline of 19th August which is a tight turnaround but the application form is short in line with the small value of funding. Please contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk if you are interested in this call.

Further details: http://www.academyofmarketing.org/education/teaching-research-and-development-grants.html

Call for Innovations/Inventions for the Cleantech Innovate 2014

Posted on July 23, 2013 by nl6

This is a great opportunity for you to get your innovation/invention out there and to promote Staffordshire University! If you are interested or have worked collaboratively with a company who would be interested then please let me know and I will support you in the development of the application and throughout the whole process!

Cleantech Innovate 2014 Feb 13th 2014 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, Sponsored by DECC

ecoConnect’s Cleantech Innovate 2014 is a great way for leading British entrepreneurs to showcase their innovative low carbon designs!

ecoConnect are now actively seeking the great green UK innovations from which they will draw 40 finalists. It is free to apply and applications are welcome from:

Corporate Research & Development
University and Science Park Research & Development and spin-outs
Entrepreneurs with privately developed technology

The 40 finalists will be seen by an audience of:

Investors seeking new investment opportunities in Cleantech
Corporate buyers seeking green solutions and partnerships
Media covering the sector and its trends
Dealmakers from Law Firms and Accountancy practices

Application deadline for presenters: 7 October 2013

How It Works

The day is divided into key sectors, e.g.: Transport, Built Environment; Energy Generation and Storage etc. Presentations within these sectors are organised into groups of 5 – each technology will present for 5 minutes and there will be opportunities for Q&A after each group of 5. Click here to see the day’s agenda http://www.cleantechinnovate.com/agenda/

If you are interested please contact me on n.arblaster@staffs.ac.uk Tel: 01785 353519

Looking to collaborate with partners in Australia?

Posted on July 22, 2013 by ejd2

CAESIE is a new consortium established to promote partnerships between European and Australian Researchers and SMEs

CAESIE (Connecting Australian European Science and Innovation Excellence) is a bilateral partnership supported by the European Union and the Australian government. It provides a range of support to foster bilateral SME research links including partner brokerage, funding to develop new collaborations and support to access mainstream international collaborative research funding. We can therefore get assistance to develop links with SMEs in Australia through this scheme. CAESIE prioritises the following three areas:

clean energy
healthy ageing
sustainable cities

Further details: http://caesie.org/

Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Awards

Posted on July 12, 2013 by BENNETT Margaret

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The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) is an independent and self-supporting UK based international learned society concerned to advance understanding of higher education, especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by systematic research and scholarship.

As part of the Society’s programme of strategic initiatives aimed at sustaining research into higher education, the Society is offering a series of annual research awards. These awards are funded entirely by the Society, and intended to support new research into higher education.

The Society is offering:

Up to four awards annually of £10,000 each for research focused on any aspect of higher education submitted under three overarching themes: Higher Education Policy, Higher Education and Society, and Higher Education Practice.These Awards are only open to individual members of the Society at the date of application and thus are part of the benefits of membership. Where a proposal is submitted by a research group or team, the lead proposer must be an individual member of the Society. Two to four scoping awards annually of £5,000 each for the exploration of any new or emerging area of higher education research leading to the development of a plan for further research.These awards are open to all and applications are welcome from members and non members of the Society. Apply using the on-line form below.

Applications open on 1st July 2013 and close on 1st September 2013.

For more information about the Annual Research Awards go to http://www.srhe.ac.uk/research/annual_research_awards.asp

For information about joining the Society, visit SRHE Membership

Research awards from the Society for Research into Higher Education

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Esther KNIGHT

The Society for Research into Higher Education invites applications for its research awards. The awards support new research into higher education.

The society is offering up to four awards annually of £10,000 each for research focused on any aspect of higher education submitted under three overarching themes: higher education policy, higher education and society, and higher education practice.

These awards are only open to individual members of the society at the date of application. Where a proposal is submitted by a research group or team, the lead proposer must be an individual member of the society.

Closing date: September 1st 2013

Further details:

http://www.srhe.ac.uk/research/annual_research_awards.asp

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