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Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Funding

JRF issues calls for proposals.  They will only accept applications to specific calls

Their aim is to:

"seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice"

 

 

British Academy

Elie Kedourie memorial fund

Deadline: 15 April annually

This fund is there to promote the study of Middle Eastern and modern European history, and the history of political thought by recent postdoctoral scholars of any nationality. Awards are offered to support any aspect of research, including travel and publication. In general, awards do not exceed £1,000.

 

 

Royal Economic Society

Conference grant scheme

Deadlines: 31 January, 31 May, and 30 September

The Society's Conference Grant Fund is available to members who are presenting a paper, or acting as a principal discussant at a conference; support of up to £500 is available. Awards are made three times a year. The closing dates for applications are 31 January, 31 May, and 30 September each year in respect of conferences which take place in the ensuing four months.

Support for small academic expenses

Deadlines: 31 January, 31 May, and 30 September

The type of expenditures which could qualify for support under this scheme include travel expenses in connection with independent research work, the purchase of a piece of software, expenses for a speaker at a conference being organised by the applicant's University or Institute.

The maximum grant is £600.

 

 

Baring Foundation

Joint International Development Grants Programme

The purpose of the Joint International Development Grants Programme is to improve the effectiveness of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa to address problems arising from the longterm forced migration and displacement of people

Applications will only be accepted from registered charities, voluntary and constituted not-for-profit organisations in the UK which have had an income of over £150,000 and less than £15 million for each of the last two years. Such UK charities will need to have close working partnerships with non-governmental and community-based organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and to seek to benefit people disadvantaged or marginalised by long-term migration and displacement. Organisations (including those in consortia) may make only one application in each annual funding round.

 

 

BISA

Visiting scholars awards

Deadline: Annual 

BISA was set up to promote International Studies in Britain and elsewhere, to advance teaching and research in the subject and to facilitate contact and communication between scholars. With this in mind the Executive Committee agreed in 1996 to help non-UK academics attend our annual conference by paying the conference costs for up to two scholars each year.

Workshop Grants

BISA now awards one large Workshop Grant to support activities in any area of international studies. This can be for any amount up to £4000, to be spent at any period during 2009.

These grants are designed to support collaborative research, although in a focused area. It is expected that they will lead to high profile publications. At least 70% of the workshop participants should be BISA members and ECRs and Research students should aslo be involved

Funding may be used for travel and subsistence, and accommodation.

Applications must now be made from one of the BISA Working Groups.

 

 

Higher Education and Social Change (EuroHESC)

Programme

Deadline: see website

The main purpose of EuroHESC is to develop and implement a programme of interdisciplinary comparative research into the relationship between higher education and society. This will include the development of theories and hypotheses about this relationship and the factors which influence it, as well as addressing methodological issues of comparative research in this field (e.g. data comparability, combination of quantitative and qualitative research, and different levels of analysis).
Moreover EuroHESC is going to explore ways of utilising other social science datasets – for example, the European Social Survey and Eurostudent – in order to set higher education research more firmly within the different social and cultural settings in which it occurs. Finally EuroHESC is expected to make a significant contribution to the development of research capacity in the field of higher education research and to an improved integration between the field and related scientific fields.

 

 

Jacobs Foundation

Grants

In the field of Productive Youth Development, the Jacobs Foundation has the following current priorities:

  1. Capitalizing on migration and the integration of youngsters with migrant backgrounds.
  2. Improving learning contexts, including institutional dimensions of learning, all-day learning, out of school learning and integrative approaches to learning.
  3. Economic dimensions of Productive Youth Development: macro and microeconomic effects

Within this context, the following aspects are of particular interest:

  • developmental perspectives
  • transitions in life
  • preventative inter-medial measures
  • learning methods, such as formal and non-formal learning
  • cultural contexts and values
  • skills and social responsibility
  • peace, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue

 

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

International Program: Global Security and Sustainability

Global Migration and Human Mobility

Through this initiative, the Foundation supports a small number of institutions and projects, with the aim of advancing three main objectives:

  • to develop improved understandings of global migration through support of policy-relevant empirical research and improved sources of data on migrant flows;
  • to encourage better governance of migration at global, regional, and national levels; and
  • to stimulate new thinking on broader issues of global human mobility.