{"id":3145,"date":"2017-07-10T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T10:06:43","slug":"funding-opportunity-ukcisa-supporting-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2017\/07\/10\/funding-opportunity-ukcisa-supporting-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Opportunity: UKCISA Supporting International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UKCISA (The UK Council for International Student Affairs) \u00a0is offering small grants for projects (\u00a32,000) and research (up to \u00a35,000) \u00a0to support the international student experience.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The aims of this scheme are twofold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Research.<\/strong> To enhance our understanding of the needs and\/or experience of international students studying in the UK<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pilot Projects.<\/strong> To encourage innovation, and develop and disseminate examples of best practice in international student support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As grant awardees will be reporting in 2018, an additional focus this year is on the\u00a0theme of 50 years of international students in the UK and 50 years of international student support in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>UKCISA keen to see projects or research which demonstrate the ways in which you support international students and celebrate the contribution they make to UK institutions and local communities.<\/p>\n<p>For full details on how to apply and an application form\u00a0go the UKCISA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcisa.org.uk\/Info-for-universities-colleges--schools\/Policy-research--statistics\/UKCISA-grants-scheme\/2017-18-scheme-\/\">2017-18 g<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcisa.org.uk\/Info-for-universities-colleges--schools\/Policy-research--statistics\/UKCISA-grants-scheme\/2017-18-scheme-\/\">rants scheme page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline for applications: 1 August 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For details of previously funded grants\u00a0please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcisa.org.uk\/Info-for-universities-colleges--schools\/Policy-research--statistics\/UKCISA-grants-scheme\/\">grants page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKCISA (The UK Council for International Student Affairs) \u00a0is offering small grants for projects (\u00a32,000) and research (up to \u00a35,000) \u00a0to support the international student experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,265,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-news","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}