With the AHRC website, now a year old, offering the possibility of presenting a wide range of rich, exciting and highly visual digital content – content that both promotes and is generated by the research community – the AHRC recently…
Wellcome Trust to provide ring-fenced funding for public engagement activities
The Wellcome Trust today announces that it is to provide ring-fenced funding to support its researchers in their public engagement activities. From 10 October, researchers applying for Wellcome Trust funding will be invited to include proposals for programmes of activity…
Research Investment Fund (RIF)
The University is making available an annual £500k investment fund to assist academic staff with the development of new strategic research opportunities. The fund will seek to support our research infrastructure through PhD studentships, equipment and the pump-priming of new…
BBC/AHRC: Call for researcher involvement in the BBC ‘World War One at Home’ project
As part of its coverage of the centenary of the First World War in 2014 the BBC seeks to explore stories which are linked to a significant place marking the history of World War One. These stories will be drawn…
TSB: Assistive Technology
Learners with disabilities or learning difficulties could enjoy much greater independence and access in the future. £1m of funding is being made available for two new competitions aimed at technology developers and launched by Jisc TechDis. Ready, steady, STEM The…
Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
This scheme is for scientists who would benefit from a period of full-time research without teaching and administrative duties. The scheme reimburses the employing institution with the full salary cost of a teaching replacement. The scheme covers all areas of the…