Call for Proposals: Research Grant Program (UK)

Learning Disabilities (intellectual disabilities), with or without autism are their priorities for funding. They consider projects for children or adults. They do not give grants for research into or care of people with mental illness, dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism, nor ADHD, if they do not also have learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities).

They generally direct their limited funds towards the initiation of research so that it can progress to the point at which there is sufficient data to support an application to one of the major funding bodies.

Eligibility Criteria

• Charities and organisations who aim to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability. They consider under learning disability the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults. Please note that they do not give grants for research into or care of those with mental illness, dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism, nor ADHD, if they do not also have learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities).

Requirements

• Applications will only be considered from established research workers and will be subject to normal professional peer review procedures.
• Applications, limited to 5 pages (including references) with the type no smaller than Times New Roman 12, should be in the form of a scientific case for support, with:
  • a brief background,
  • research questions or hypotheses,
  • detailed description of the methods including number of participants, study design, assessments/outcome measures, and proposed analyses,
  • timetable,
  • importance/likely impact of the research, or other opportunities likely to arise from the research,
  • references.
• A detailed budget of costs should be submitted together with a justification for the support requested. Details should be included of any other applications for funding which have been made to other funders and their outcomes, if known.
• They only fund the directly incurred costs of research. This can include the salary costs of researchers to be employed full or part time directly on the project, but not a percentage salary recoup of academics employed on permanent University contracts. They do not cover University Full Economic Costs, nor open access publishing costs, nor costs for conference attendance.
• A one page Curriculum Vitae will be required for each of the personnel conducting the study, including a note of the number of their peer reviewed publications and details of the 10 most significant publications.
• Evidence may be submitted of the approval of the Ethics Committee of the applicant to the study and approval of the University for the application to the Fund.  Please note any successful application will be subject to confirmation of ethics approval prior to the release of any funds.
• An eighty word lay summary should also be submitted with the scientific summary.
• Any papers submitted in excess of those stipulated above will not be passed to the Research Committee for consideration.
• Before submitting a full application, researchers may submit a one page summary of the proposed study so that the Trustees may indicate whether they are prepared to consider a full application.  The one page summary should include sufficient description of the proposed study design and methods to assess the proposal, and hence only a brief introduction, and an approximation of the likely sum of money to be requested.

For more information, visit The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund.