RFPs: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (UK)

Thematic Areas

• British Accounting and Finance Association: research in the fields of accounting finance, broadly interpreted to cover all aspects of historical and contemporary research in relevant subjects.
• EY: research in the fields of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies and their potential disruptive impact on trust, sustainability, future talent needs and broader issues relating to organisational or societal transformation.
• Honor Frost Foundation: research in the fields of maritime archaeology including shipwrecks, submerged landscapes, maritime ethnography, cultural heritage, research relating to outreach and community engagement with maritime archaeology etc.
• Journal of Moral Education Trust: research in the fields of moral education, moral psychology, moral philosophy and ethics, civics and citizenship education and subjects bearing on how human beings engage or disengage with moral life.
• Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain: research in the fields of philosophy that bears on educational questions and issues.
• Sino-British Fellowship Trust: funds individual or collaborative projects in Britain or China in the humanities and social sciences.
• Society for the Advancement of Management Studies – research in the fields of management and business studies.
• Wellcome Trust: research in the fields of health and wellbeing.

Funding Information

• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS)
  • The British Academy will cover costs of the participants from the UK side (up to £5,000) and CASS will cover costs of the participants from the Chinese side (up to RMB 50,000).
• Applications will not be considered for less than £500.
• The maximum grant is £10,000 over two years.
• Grants are tenable for between one and 24 months.

Eligible Costs

• Project planning and development costs (cost of travel for discussion in the UK and overseas; initial workshops with potential partners)
• Travel and maintenance for UK scholars; including travel to disseminate results of the research at conferences held either in the UK or abroad
• Travel and maintenance for overseas scholars engaged in collaborative research activity with UK partner(s)
• Research assistance (based in UK or abroad)
• Workshops to advance the programme of research (principally the costs of travel and maintenance for key participants, though organisational costs may be considered)
• Consumables specialist software
• Costs of interpreters in the field

Ineligible Costs

• Institutional overheads, or any element that should properly be ascribed to institutional overheads
• Computer hardware including laptops, electronic notebooks, digital cameras, etc
• Books and other permanent resources
• Preparation of camera-ready copy, copy-editing, proof-reading, indexing, nor any other editorial task
• Subventions for direct production costs (printing, binding, distribution, marketing etc)
• Costs of publication in electronic media Payment to the principal researcher(s) in lieu of salary or time contribution, or for personal maintenance at home
• Replacement teaching costs
• Travel and maintenance expenses for purposes such as lecture tours or to write up the results of research

Eligibility Criteria

• Grants are available for research, at postdoctoral or equivalent level, in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. Equivalent experience may include holding, or having held, an established post, having a record of publications in the field and/or having teaching experience.
• Postgraduate students are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands (that is, classed as ‘ordinarily resident’ for tax purposes) or currently employed overseas by a recognised UK overseas research organisation.
• UK research organisations based overseas may apply to be recognised by demonstrating that they satisfy both the following conditions:
  • Organisations which are, or which are constituent parts of, charities registered with the Charity Commission;
  • Which must be able to demonstrate an independent capability to undertake research in the field or discipline in which they wish to be funded, and to lead the research for which funding is received.
  • Awards will not be made retrospectively: this means that the work for which support is requested must not have commenced before the award is announced.

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