Sources for research funding

Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to: research@thes.co.uk

Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this service is available to subscibers on our research microsite at www.thesis.co.uk

ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS

FOUNDATION

www.pedaids.org

Basic Research Grants This programme provides initial funding to investigators to enable them to gather preliminary data to answer questions quickly and/or obtain sufficient results to apply to other granting agencies.

Applicant must have a full-time academic and/or institutional appointment. Provides up to $80,000 per year in direct costs for a period of performance not to exceed two years. Application forms are downloadable.

Letters of intent

deadline: July 19.

ISAAC NEWTON

INSTITUTE FOR

MATHEMATICAL

SCIENCES

www.newton.cam.ac.uk

Call for Proposals

The institute aims to bring mathematical scientists from UK universities and leading experts from overseas together for concentrated research on specialised topics in all branches of the mathematical sciences. At any time there are two visitor programmes in progress, each with about twenty scientists in residence. Included within these are periods of more expanded activity including instructional courses and workshops. The institute now invites new proposals for programmes for 2002 onwards. A choice of six-month or four-month programmes is available. In addition, short programmes of four weeks duration will be available during July/August each year. These are intended for more narrowly focused topics or for subjects that may be at an embryonic stage of development, and for which a longer programme might not be as yet justified. Deadline: June 30. Further information is available from the Director (email info@newton.cam.ac.uk; Tel 01223 335999).

CANCER RESEARCH CAMPAIGN

www.crc.org.uk

Education and

psychosocial

research awards -

Project grants

Applications are invited for research proposals from established researchers in the fields of education and psychosocial sciences within the priority areas identified by the education and psychosocial research committee. Next deadline: August 4. For further information and an application pack, contact The Scientific Secretary (Education); email: education@crc.org.uk quoting the reference "Project Grants".

BRITISH FILM

INSTITUTE

www.bfi.org.uk

The British Film Institute wishes to work with higher education institutions to develop work about the history of British film and television based on its national collections of information and other materials. Fellowships of up to Pounds ,5000 are available for academics who wish to work with BFI Knowledge staff to develop modules to enhance the British film and television history material available on the BFI web site and for the BFI Online pilot project. Expressions of interest should be made to Mark Duguid; email: mark.duguid@bfi.org.uk. The BFI also welcomes expressions of interest from academics who would be interested in working with the BFI to develop applications for funding to research and write a history of the BFI. In the first instance email: richard.paterson@bfi.org.uk.

EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION

www.esf.org

Musical Life in

Europe 1600 -1900

- travel grants

This programme aims at studying the processes of production, distribution, communication and reception of musical works as well as of their forms of transmission and circulation. Travel grants are being offered to enable young scholars, both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral, working in the field of musicology to travel to a programme workshop, to visit research centres which cooperate in the programme or for short visits to libraries and archives in order to consult documents for a period of up to four weeks. For further information consult the programme's home page. To be considered a candidate has to: undertake work applicable to the programme; apply for a stay in a European country other than the country of origin; return to the institute of origin upon termination, so that the applicant's institute may also benefit from her/his broadened knowledge. Travel grants are available for visits from a few days to one month in duration. Deadline:

June 30.

ENGINEERING &

PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

www.epsrc.ac.uk

Computational Engineering Mathematics:

call for proposals

The EPSRC wishes to encourage new and existing collaborations between mathematicians and engineers working in the multidisciplinary area of computational mathematics as applied to engineering problems. Applications are invited for project grants, research networks, visiting fellowships, workshops and symposia. All applications will be expected to include the long-term objective of promoting collaborative links involving mathematicians and engineers. Deadline: September 30. An optional outline stage is available to those applicants who are unsure as to the suitability of their research project. The outline application form (which can be downloaded from the EPSRC website) should be received by July 14. For further information contact: Dr Elizabeth Foord, EPSRC Engineering Programme, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1ET; tel: 01793 444415; fax: 01793 444187; email: elizabeth.foord@epsrc.ac.uk.

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OH-01-001.html

Endocrine Disruptors: epidemiologic approaches

This programme will support research on the relationship between exposure to endocrine disruptors and adverse health effects in humans, particularly reproductive and developmental, with a focus on epidemiologic approaches. Letter of intent deadline: August 11. Application deadline: September 22. Queries to: Michael Galvin, Research Grants Program, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. Building 1, Room 3053, MS D-30 Atlanta, GA 30333, USA; tel: (404) 639 3343; fax: (404) 639 4616; email: mtg3@cdc.gov.

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY http://immunology.org/visitorsnew.htm

Travel awards

Grants, currently up to the value of Pounds 400, are available to assist members to attend scientific meetings or to visit laboratories for specific short-term activities such as collaborative research or to learn techniques. Awards under this scheme are not intended to cover the full cost of the proposed activity. In making awards the panel will consider the scientific value of the applications received and will look favourably on younger scientists. Next deadline: 1 August for travel in October, November and December. Travel award forms can be obtained by emailing: jan@immunology.org or can be downloaded in PDF format from the website.