We have opened calls for our Wellcome Trust funded SMALL GRANT and BROADENING OUR HORIZONS schemes and I’d be obliged if you could circulate details to staff in your Units.
The SMALL GRANT SCHEME aims to provide seedcorn funding to allow researchers to:
- test the feasibility of initial ideas and of potential future studies;
- produce preliminary data;
- raise the quality of outputs by supporting additional experimentation often required by the higher ranking journals.
This call includes research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses any aspect of health. This scheme specifically encourages inter-disciplinary research across Institutes and Faculties.
The scheme will be aimed at individuals who have limited funding, in particular applications from early year researchers are encouraged.
Funds will be made available for projects to commence in September 2019.
Current submission deadline: 01 July 2019 Applications should be submitted to marjorie.holbrough@ncl.ac.uk
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#smallgrantsscheme
The BROADENING OUR HORIZONS SCHEME crosses all career stages and pathways (researchers, core facilities’ staff and technicians).
The scheme will provide funding to cover travel, accommodation costs and meeting expenses (where no external funding schemes exist for this purpose) to allow for:
- attendance at specialist training courses or conferences;
- short placements in other labs and scientific facilities develop collaborations, strengthen existing skills or to develop skills and expertise in a new technique or discipline;
- organisation of small meetings and sandpit events in order to bring researchers from different research disciplines together;
and for Early Career Researchers
- to allow them to receive mentorship from a research leader in their field outside Newcastle in order to develop their own career and professional network and to increase links between external leaders and Newcastle.
THIS IS A REACTIVE SCHEME, SO APPLICATIONS CAN BE MADE AT ANY TIME, AND FUNDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED UNTIL THEY RUN OUT.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#broadeningourhorizons