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Non European and International Funding

 

Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)

ACU Titular Fellowships

To enable the universities of the Commonwealth to develop the human resources of their institutions and countries through the interchange of people, knowledge, skills and technologies.
Fellowships are for up to £5000 and tenable for a maximum of 6 months

 

 

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission

CSFP (Commonwealth Fellowships and Scholarships Plan)

There are over 700 Commonwealth Scholarships for citizens of the Commonwealth to study / research at universities elsewhere in the Commonwealth.  Fellowships are Scholarships are available for academics and students at all levels.

There are a number available in the UK and others available elsewhere which UK citizens are eligible to apply for.

http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/

 

 

Canon Foundation Fellowships

Research Fellowships

Deadline: September 15 each year

Grants are offered, regardless of discipline, to European nationals and permanent residents who intend to go to Japan and to Japanese who intend to go to Europe.

Applicants may be based at institutions of learning or be members of commercial, industrial, governmental, or professional organisations.

Applicants should preferably hold a Ph.D. and must not be older than 40 years of age. Financial support for Research Fellows in the past has ranged from 22,500 € to 27,500 € per year, pro-rated for shorter periods.

The fellowships are generally given for a term of one year, but shorter research stays, from three to six months, are also possible. Fellowships may be taken up, at the earliest, January 1 of the year following the competition. The foundation grants up to 15 fellowships annually, two-thirds to Europeans and one-third to Japanese applicants.

 

 

British Council

Funding opportunities occur from time to time and vary.  They are currently much reduced due to cuts in UK government funding.

INSPIRE: International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education


INSPIRE – International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education is a British Council funded project that aims to significantly strengthen the academic and research partnerships between the UK and a strategic selection of countries in Central South Asia, including: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan.

 

 

American Academy in Rome

Rome Prize

Annual Deadline 1 November

Each year, up to 12 Rome Prizes are awarded in the Humanities. The Academy welcomes applicants in the field of musicology, as well as archaeology, history, the history of art and architecture and literary studies. Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy's 11-acre center in Rome and receive room and board and a study. Both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral awards are available and carry stipends of $15,750 and $21,000, respectively. Residencies are 11-months.

Applicants for pre-doctoral fellowships must have fulfilled all pre-dissertation requirements by the application deadline. Applicants for post-doctoral fellowships must have received the PHD. by the time of application.

The disciplines listed above are intended to be suggestive, not exclusive. Any humanistic approach, or combination of approaches, to these areas will be given consideration. Furthermore, comparative projects and projects that cut across conventional and arbitrary chronological limits are welcome. The annual deadline for the Rome Prize is November 1st.

For further information or to download guidelines and an application, please visit the website at http://www.aarome.org or contact the American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA, Attn: Programs. T: +1-(212) 751-7200; F: +1-(212) 751-7220; E:info@aarome.org. Please state specific field of interest when requesting information.

The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. Through a nationally juried process, up to 30 Rome Prize fellowships are awarded, annually, in Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation & Conservation, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Musical Composition, Visual Arts, Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Modern Italian Studies

 

 

Bradley Foundation 

Grant program

Deadline: every December 1, March 1, July 1, September 1

At present, the Foundation aims to encourage projects that focus on cultivating a renewed, healthier, and more vigorous sense of citizenship among the American people and among peoples of other nations, as well.

Projects may address any arena of public life where citizenship is an important issue, eg economics, politics, culture or civil society.

 

 

Earthwatch Institute

Field research

Deadline: None

Earthwatch Institute is an international non-profit organization that supports scholarly field research worldwide in the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences The Research Program at Earthwatch supports a diversity of research projects of high scientific merit worldwide, which address critical environmental and social issues at local, national, and international levels.

It supports doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, or researchers with equivalent qualifications

The average project grant is between $16,000 (£9,600) and $48,000 for one full season. Grants cover the cost of maintaining volunteers and principal research staff in the field.

Earthwatch is one of few significant sources of long-term funding for field-based research; 25 percent of the research projects have been supported for more than 5 years, and 10 percent have been supported for more than 10 years. Approximately one-third of all scientists Earthwatch supports are scientists early in their careers, women in science, and/or scientists from developing nations

 

 

The Foundation for the Future

Research Grants

Deadline: 30 April each year (invited formal proposals August 1)

The Foundation For the Future conducts and funds a Research Grants Program to provide financial support to scholars undertaking research at a macro level that is directly related to better understanding the factors affecting the long-term future of humanity.

Current areas of interest are:

  • How will changes in birth rates, mortality rates, and reproductive technology affect the Human Genome over the long-term future?
  • What effect will the current global immigration and emigration of populations have on the demography of the planet over the long-term future?
  • What are likely to be the major driving forces/initiatives/issues for humanity through the new millennium?
  • Are mechanisms of Biological and Cultural evolution in sync with our systems of Governance and Economy? How are they likely to evolve and develop over the long-term future?

Funds of between $5,000 and $25,000 are available. Proposals are accepted from unaffiliated individuals or on behalf of individuals or research teams from universities and colleges or non-profit, non-academic organizations.

 

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation:

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants

Deadlines: 31 March and 30 September annually

Daiwa Foundation Small Grants are available from £1,000-£5,000 to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to promote and support interaction between the two countries. They now cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged.

Daiwa Foundation Awards

Deadline: 31 May annually

Daiwa Foundation Awards are available from £5,000-£15,000 for collaborative projects that enable British and Japanese partners to work together, preferably within the context of an institutional relationship. Projects in all academic, professional, cultural and educational fields are eligible.

 

 

International Federation of University Women

International fellowships

Deadline: usually between 1 Sept and Mid Oct

The International Federation of University Women offers a limited number of fellowships and grants to women graduates for advanced research, study and training. The competitions are normally held every two years.

IFUW fellowships and grants are open only to women graduates who are members of the International Federation. The awards are intended to help finance short graduate and post-graduate study, research and training projects and to serve as complementary funds for longer programmes.

Fellowships are to encourage advanced scholarship and original research by university women. Applicants must be well started on the research programme to which the application refers. Fellowships are intended to cover at least eight months of work. They are not normally given for a masters or for the first year of a PhD programme.

 

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Research 

Fellowships

Deadline: 01 February each year

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is one of the world's foremost institutions for research in literature, arts, and the humanities

Approximately 40 fellowships are awarded annually. Priority will be given to those proposals that concentrate on the center's collections and that require substantial on-site use of them.

Applicants must be postdoctoral or equivalent or have a substantial record of scholarly achievement. There are no nationality restrictions.

 

 

The British Institute in Eastern Africa

Research Grants

Deadline: Usually 30 April and 31 October

The Institute awards at its absolute discretion grants to assist scholars undertaking original research in Eastern Africa broadly defined, in any field of the humanities and social sciences with some emphasis on archaeology, African history, anthropology and related subjects. Grants are normally awarded as contributions towards actual research costs and do not include institutional overheads or any stipendiary element for applicants.

The maximum sum awarded is £1000 sterling or its equivalent in local currency.

It is a further condition that all BIEA grant recipients should be paid-up members of the Institute, minimally for the year the grant is awarded.

 

 

UKIERI

A programme to support education links between UK and India. 

The programme has now been extended to 2016.  See the website for calls

http://www.ukieri.org/

 

 

Commonwealth Foundation

Civil society responsive grants

Deadline: 30 June, 30 September, 31 December and 31 March

These grants enable people from developing Commonwealth countries to participate in activities such as short training courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, cultural festivals, exchanges and study visits in other Commonwealth countries.

The foundation's funding programmes areas are governance and democracy, sustainable development and culture and diversity.

The limit for a responsive grant application is £20,000. The majority of the grants given by the foundation are under £10,000, with the average grant being given approximately £5,000. Applications for grants of over £10,000 must be submitted in time for the 30 June and 31 December deadlines in order to be considered by the grants committee in September and March. respectively.

 

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Programmes

The Foundation has a wide variety of grant programs for anthropological research and scholarship that are open to applicants irrespective of nationality or country of residence.

These include:

  • Conferences and Workshops
  • PhD Grants
  • Research Grants

 

Toyota Foundation

Research Grant Programme

Deadline: annually

The Toyota Foundation was established to work "for the sake of greater human happiness" in October 1974. Ever since, the Foundation has engaged in activities guided by the principles of "foresight, citizen participation, and internationality" in the hope of contributing toward an increase in human happiness and the development of society.

Research Grants are awarded on an annual basis and can be for one or two years

 

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Research grant

Deadline: August 1, annually

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes research grant proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Particular questions that interest HFG concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence. Grants are awarded to individuals, and are normally in the range of $15,000 to $30,000 per year for one or two years.

 

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy

Research Grants

Deadline: January 31 annually

Grants are awarded for work in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such as evaluation research. Preference will be given to projects that deal with contemporary issues in the social sciences and issues of policy relevance.

In addition to the research grants, six special awards are offered which carry an additional stipend. They are:

•the Joshua Feigenbaum award. This award is for empirical research on policy aspects of the arts and popular culture, with special reference to mass communication;
•the Eli Ginzberg award. This award is made for a project involving solutions to major health and welfare problems in urban settings;
•the Harold D Lasswell award. This award is for policy related projects in international relations and foreign affairs;
•the Martinus Nijhoff award. This is awarded for studies of policy implications of scientific, technological and medical research;
•the Robert K Merton award. This award is for studies in the relation between social theory and public policy;
•the John L Stanley award. This is awarded for work that seeks to expand understanding of the political and ethical foundations of policy research.

Grants are made for a one year period and range from $3,000 to $5,000 each.

 

 

Harvard University

Schlesinger Library Research Support Grants

Deadline: Annual usually April
Grants are available for scholars whose research requires use of the library's collections on the history of women in America.
The library's principal holdings date from the founding of the United States to the present and are especially rich in the areas of women's rights movements, feminism, health, social reform, education, professional life, volunteer and civic efforts, family relationships, and travel.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree or equivalent research and writing experience. Priority will be given to those whose projects require use of materials available nowhere else but the Schlesinger Library. Non-US citizens are eligible but should contact the library regarding visas and other required paperwork prior to applying.

Grants of up to $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis to cover travel expenses, living expenses, photocopying, and other incidental research expenses

 

International Olympic Committee

Grant Programme

The IOC Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) has created an annual programme of grants intended for young researchers engaged in scholarly research on the Olympic Movement, its history and ideals, and the impact of the Olympic Games on the various aspects of contemporary society and culture.
Objectives
The programme has the following objectives:

  • To encourage young researchers to undertake research on the Olympic phenomena and in particular on priority fields of research
  • To promote the consultation of the written and audio-visual IOC patrimony.
  • To encourage collaboration between young researchers from different disciplines and countries.

This programme is open to all current PGRs and academics who have completed their doctorate or equivalent terminal degree in the past five years and currently hold an academic appointment.

 

 

Fulbright Commission

Fulbright distinguished scholar awards

Deadline: usually February / March each year

The Fulbright Commission seeks applications from professionals or academics in any field to participate in the distinguished scholar programme. The scheme enables scholars to undertake lecturing, research or professional development in the US for a minimum of 10 months. Applicants must be EU citizens normally resident in the UK. Awards are worth £15,000 each.

 

 

Ford Foundation

Grants

Deadline: None

The Foundation's current interests are:

  • asset building and community development: economic development and community and resource development;
  • peace and social justice: human rights, governance and civil society: education, sexuality, religion, media, arts and culture
  • knowledge, creativity and freedom.

 

 

Australian Bicentennial Scholarships 

Scholarships and Fellowships

Deadline: Annual

The object of the scheme is to promote scholarship, intellectual links, and mutual awareness and understanding between the UK and Australia, in particular:

  • to enable UK graduates to study courses or undertake research in Australia;
  • to enable Australian graduates to take courses or undertake research in the UK;
  • to make allowance within the scheme for disadvantaged persons.

An applicant for a scholarship must be registered as a postgraduate student at a British tertiary institution, or be eligible for such registration at an Australian tertiary institution, and resident in the UK. An applicant for a fellowship should have a good postgraduate degree or equivalent experience.

Younger scholars are preferred. Each scholarship or fellowship will offer a grant of up to £4,000. Applicants must spend at least three months studying in Australia.