Closing date for applications: 14 October 2008
The Council's Research Grants Board is pleased to invite applications under the fourth round of the Large Grant Scheme. The Scheme is designed to provide for experienced researchers requiring longer term or extended support for research groups, inter-institutional research networks, linked-project programmes, medium-to-large surveys, other infrastructure or methodological developments, or any related larger scale projects where funding above the standard research grant of £1.5 million, and up to £5 million at 100% in full economic costs is required.
The Seminars competition will be held again for 2008/9. Seminar Groups are multi-institutional groups of academic researchers, postgraduate students and non-academic users who meet regularly to exchange information and ideas with the aim of advancing research within their fields. Where appropriate, Seminar Group members should be drawn from industry, government departments and other relevant organisations as well as from academic institutions.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-UK) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) will jointly support collaborative research on Ecology of Infectious Diseases involving UK-USA research teams. Projects must include a substantial focus on the roles of socio-ecological factors and processes on disease transmission dynamics.
Closing date for first call: 8 January 2009
The Scheme provides follow-on funding for social scientists in the UK to undertake additional knowledge transfer and impact generation activities that can demonstrate the potential for significant economic, social, policy and/or practice benefit(s). Applications that seek to commercialise research and those from resources and methods research investments will also be eligible to apply. The scheme offers awards of up to £100k (at 80% fEC) for a maximum of 12 months through three closed calls over the next year using the Je-S electronic application. Awards above the ESRC maximum are possible where additional external funding is guaranteed. Applications may also be made for smaller packages of engagement activity up to £30k.
Closing date for applications: 4pm 25 September 2008
Applications are now available for the new ESRC Mid-Career Fellowship scheme, which is intended to enable outstanding researchers to develop their careers by taking their research in a new direction or to a new level. The scheme is targeted at individuals with between five and fifteen years' active postdoctoral or equivalent professional experience who can demonstrate the potential to progress to leading positions within UK social science. The scheme is open to all social science disciplines; interdisciplinary research is particularly encouraged.
The ESRC is running a seminar opportunity for all final year (3rd/4th year) CASE studentships with a business focus (private sector and social enterprise included). A claim of up to £2,000 can be made to host a seminar/workshop with business and non-academic organisations as the key audience. Preference will be given to applications where partnership support (in cash or kind) is committed and to seminars that relate to our business priority sectors; Financial Services, Energy, Creative Industries, Health Technologies, Retail, Sport, Leisure and Tourism and Consultancies/Intermediaries. For more information contact Kirsty Johnson on the Knowledge Transfer Team at kirsty.johnson@esrc.ac.uk.
Deadline for proposal: 4pm 7 November 2008
The ESRC and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences will shortly be finalising the terms of the 2008 call for proposals under their bilateral agreement. Full details will be published on the ESRC web site at the end of September for a call closing on 7 November 2008.
The ESRC and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)are pleased to announce that under the terms of their bilateral agreement, they will be accepting proposals on an open call basis from 1 October 2008. Proposals may be submitted at any time after that date. Full details will be published on the ESRC web site at the end of September.
The CO-REACH Social Science Programme aims to bring together Chinese and European researchers, working in the social sciences and in part of the humanities, to collaborate on a joint topic of mutual interest, and to explore the possibilities of future co-operation in these areas. It is open both to European and Chinese scholars experienced at collaborating together and to those with little or no previous experience of China-Europe collaboration.
We would like to remind you that overseas Co-Investigators from anywhere in the world can be included in the majority of ESRC research schemes. Any academic researcher (PhD or equivalent) from an established overseas Research Organisation of comparable standing to a UK Research Organisation will be eligible.
Jointly with the ESRC, the British Academy operates agreements with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences. Grants are available for individual research visits to the partner Academy, and for Joint Projects.
The UK-China Summer School Award aims to strengthen the capacity of UK and Chinese institutions to undertake joint research-related activity, and to enable early-career researchers and research students to benefit from interaction with experts and researchers from the other country.
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