The British Sociological Association receives information about grants and research funding from various sources on a regular basis. We have aimed to provide direct links to all these funding bodies here. If you would like details of your organisation's funding opportunities included on this page, please email Donna Willis with details and, ideally, a weblink.
Funding opportunities are listed in alphabetical order:
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The AL Charitable Trust - The Trust is a twenty-six year old foundation with broad educational aims. A limited number of small grants of up to £1,000 are available this year.
The priority of the Trust this year is public health. In particular, the Trust is looking for projects that examine high risk health behaviours such as alcoholism and binge drinking either in Britain or elsewhere. Proposals are welcomed that have some practical engagement with the subject of the research and which would be of benefit to user groups. All proposals must have a gender dimension.
Further details of how to apply for one of the AL Charitable Trust's small grants.
The Annette Lawson Charitable Trust - Charitable objects: The advancement of education in the field of sociology and the stimulation of research in all aspects of sociology with a view to the publication and dissemination of the knowledge resulting from such research and with particular emphasis on sociology in the field of medicine and mental health.
Contact details: The Annette Lawson Charitable Trust, 5 Carriage House, 88-90 Randolph Avenue, W9 1BD. Tel: +44 (0)207 266 1073.
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The Barbers' Company Clinical Nursing Scholarship - To enable nurses in clinical nursing to undertake further education, research or a clinical project. The Scholarship of up to £5,000 is offered for the fees or subsistence of a nurse normally undertaking a taught Masters’ programme relevant to nursing or research, in an academic department in the United Kingdom or at an approved academic department of nursing overseas.
Applicants should submit a 500-word outline on the course/research/project and its intended application together with their CV to: The Barbers’ Company Scholarship, RCN Research Institute, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. The closing date for receipt of applications is 28 February 2008. For more information contact PA to the Director RCN RI, tel +44 (0)24 761 50618, email Paul Kent.
The British Academy: Conference Grants - Grants are available for bringing key speakers to conferences held in the UK; and individual travel grants to overseas conferences. Closing dates: 15 October, 15 January, 15 April.
The British Academy: International Activities - The Academy has a number of special schemes with partner institutions to support research in particular countries or regions.
The British Academy: Postdoctoral Fellowships - This scheme is designed to enable outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment, which will develop their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent lecturing posts by the end of the Fellowship.
The British Academy: Research Grants - Small Research Grants (up to £7,500) are available for collaborative or individual research projects.
The British Acadamy: Research Leave Fellowships and Senior Research Fellowships - Awards provide two-year or one-year research leave, for established scholars to undertake or complete a programme of sustained research.
The British Academy: UK-Latin American/Carribbean Link Programme - In an initiative developed by the British Academy's Latin American and the Carribbean Panel, two awards of up to £20,000 each are available to support a programme of seminars involving UK and Latin American and Caribbean scholars on a topic of mutual interest within the humanities and social sciences.
The British Academy: Visiting Fellowships - The Academy's Visiting Fellowship scheme, launched in 2005, enables early-career scholars from overseas to apply directly to the Academy, in conjunction with their UK hosts, for research visits to the UK of at least two months. The main purpose of the visit should be to enable the visitor to pursue research.
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The Canadian Sociological Association (CSAA) will allocate travel grants to assist student members of the Association to attend their Annual Meeting. The travel grants will be allocated to students who present papers at the Annual Meeting and do not receive adequate support from other sources. Procedures,application form and related info are posted on the CSAA website.
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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. We aim to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government. The issues considered include economic competitiveness, the effectiveness of public services and policy, and our quality of life.
ESRC Postgraduate Funding - Part of the ESRC´s Mission Statement is to support postgraduate training in the social sciences. Well trained research students are the seedbed for the social science researchers of the future. For this reason, the ESRC has set up, a Postgraduate Training Board and Division dedicated to the support of postgraduate students. The division has an annual budget of approximately £24 million with which it funds students through maintenance grants and other linked support.
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Fullbright Distinguished Scholar Awards - The Fulbright Commission seeks applications from outstanding professionals or academics in any field, to undertake lecturing, research or professional development in the US.
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Institute for Cultural Research - Charitable objects: to advance the education of the public by means of the study of, and the provision of teaching relating to, the formation, development and transmission of ideas and beliefs and the effect thereon of the forces of history, environment and society; and as ancillary to these main objects: to promote, conduct and assist relevant research and, for the dissemination of the results thereof to members of the public, to establish and hold classes, lectures, courses, schools, seminars and study groups and to publish and be associated in the publication of papers, periodicals and books and to encourage and provide facilities for practical activities; to help and associate with charitable organisations teaching and/or studying in the same or related fields; to award scholoarships for the purpose of enabling selected persons to carry out special studies or research within the scope of above.
The Institute of Social Research - The Institute of Social Research at the University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, has established a Visiting International Fellowship to foster the development of sociological research methods. Between one and three Fellowships are awarded by competition each year. Applicants for the Fellowship will be established scholars in social science with a track record in a field of social research methodology. They will normally hold, or recently have held, an established academic appointment in social science. The Fellowship committee regrets that it cannot consider applications from candidates seeking training, updating of methodological skills, or who are currently registered for an undergraduate or graduate degree. For further details please click here.
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation - The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is the UK´s largest independent social policy research and development charity. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy.
Joint Funding Councils of the UK - The Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales distribute funds for the provision of education and the undertaking of research by higher education institutions.
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The Leverhulme Trust - Various grants to both institutions and individuals.
The Lionel Penrose Trust - Charitable objects: (1) To conduct promote or otherwise further research into the medical psychological and social cause and effects of violence and group conflict and to disseminate the results of such research to the public. (2) To educate or promote the education of doctors, nurses and other persons working in the fields of medicine (including psychology and psychiatry) and sociology in the medical psychological and social causes and effects of violence and group conflict.
Contact details: The Lionel Penrose Trust, 37 Kings Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 2NW or via email.
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Marie Curie Fellowships - Marie Curie Fellowships provide European placements for pre and post-doctoral researchers, usually up to the age of 35, and for experienced researchers.
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The Nuffield Foundation - The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charity with an income of £8 million a year. The funds are used mainly to support self contained projects which advance education or social welfare, often by means of research or practical innovation.
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Postgraduatestudentships.co.uk - PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk is the first dedicated website in the UK to bring together all the different types of funding opportunities open to potential postgraduates, at both taught and research level, all in one place. Please visit the website for further details.
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Richard Glyn Foundation - Charitable objects: The advancement of education for the public benefit. In particular, but not exclusively in the field of reliogion, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
Contact details: Richard Glyn Foundation, Gaunts House, Petersham Lane, Gaunts, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JQ or via email.
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Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) - The Institute of International Education´s Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large. When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and repression.
The Scientific Exploration Society - Charitable objects: to promote, organise and support expeditions for the exploration of under-developed regions of the earth for the purpose of advancing knowledge of, or research into, or for the purpose of educating individuals in the geography, history, archaeology, sociology, economics, ecology, geology etc of the said regions.
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The Wellcome Trust - The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
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