Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants - The Leverhulme Trust

DEADLINE NOTE: There are no closing dates for the submission of an Outline Application but there will be a period of at least five weeks between submitting your Outline Application and receiving notice of a decision.

AMOUNT NOTE: Up to 250,000 pounds Sterling for a period of up to 3 years.

250,000 - 500,000 pounds Sterling for a period of up to 5 years.
ELIGIBILITY:

- Universities and other institutions of higher and further education and registered charities in less developed countries where, in the opinion of the Trustees, the provision for research funding is seriously limited.

- The Trust supports research in all fields EXCEPT Social policy and welfare, Medicine and School education

CITIZENSHIP: Albania; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Estonia; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia; Poland; Romania; Slovenia; Slovakia; the Czech Republic; Serbia and Montenegro.

CRITERIA: The dominating criterion for the selection of the proposals is the quality of the intended research.

Important additional contributions to the quality are:

- originality of the work;

- significance of the work for future activity in the immediate subject area;

- significance of the work for other subject areas;

- merit of the proposed methods, researchers and institution for the intended work.

ABSTRACT: The Trust, established at the wish of the first Viscount Leverhulme, makes awards for the support of research and education. The research project grants are principally for the salary costs of a researcher or researchers, to work on a specific and discrete research project proposed by the applicant. The principal purpose of the application is to pursue a research project rather than to fund a particular individual or a particular post or posts. Grants are made to institutions under the name of an individual (the Principal Investigator), rather than directly to that individual. Interested researchers are asked in the first instance to complete an Outline Application Form (downloadable on the website) and submit this to the Trust. For an Outline Application which successfully passes initial review, the applicant will be invited to prepare a Full Application.

CONTACT NAME: Jane Andrews (To send an outline application),

Sylvia Herd (For queries not answered on the trust's website)

More information:

Email: sherd@leverhulme.org.uk

Web: www.leverhulme.org.uk/research_project