Grants
Parkes Foundation The Parkes Foundation provides funding through its Small Grants Fund to help Masters and PhD students conduct research into the biosocial sciences. In 2008, the Foundation will also provide funds of up to £3,000 for an extended period of fieldwork for 1 PhD student. The new funding will be called the Parkes Foundation PhD Fieldwork Grant. For more information, see: www.ParkesFoundation.org The Nuffield Foundation Small Grants Scheme in the Social Sciences
This scheme makes small grants for social science research expenses. Awards are normally up to £7,500, although in exceptional circumstances awards may be made up to a maximum of £12,000. The scheme has no closing date. Applicants must be resident and working at a UK institution, although the research may be undertaken outside the UK.
Trustees have identified three priorities for funding:
- Projects that develop social science research capacity particularly by supporting the work of those new to social science research
- Self-contained or pilot or preliminary projects that address the wider objects of the foundation, namely a broad concern with the 'advancement of social well-being'
- Outstanding small projects in the social sciences
Opportunities and Choices Programme (Department for International Development [DFID]-funded) Small Grants Scheme
The Opportunities and Choices Programme offers a limited number of small grants for the development of research proposals that fall under the five major themes of the programme:
- Reproductive health in developing countries
- Availability of services
- New knowledge of affordability
- Operationalising the delivery of quality care, evaluation and monitoring
- Capacity building and effective 'research into practice' techniques
The British Academy
The British Academy has both small (up to £7,500) and large (up to £20,000) research grants available to help meet research expenses (for postdoctoral, but not postgraduate, researchers).
