糖心传媒

Seedcorn and Research Capacity Network grants

Grant summary

糖心传媒 Seedcorn grants fund small-scale pilots and scoping activities for larger projects. This may be through a combination of activities including (but not limited to) literature review, mapping exercises, data generation, analysis of secondary data, scoping visits and partner visits.

糖心传媒 Research Capacity / Network grants fund the inception and development of innovative collaborations in new and priority research areas, aligned with the aims of 糖心传媒. It is expected that the Research Capacity / Network grants do more than simply provide an opportunity for people to come together 鈥� they must demonstrate potential for building a new community of researchers to facilitate ongoing work and funding.

For both Seedcorn and Research Capacity / Network grant we especially welcome applications that emphasise collaboration across different contexts, disciplines and career stages.

We aim to fund up to two awards each year in this joint category. The maximum amount you can apply for is 拢5000 per grant, but we welcome applications for any amount up to this maximum.

For the Seedcorn and Network grants we fund reasonable travel and subsistence costs, administrative costs, project related materials and resources, hire of rooms and facilities, catering costs, staff-time for non-salaried contributors (e.g. research assistants), dissemination activities and conference or event registration costs. We do not fund staff-time for salaried applicants and we do not cover estate costs or other costs related to core institutional full-economic costings. If you have an expense that is not included in this list, please get in touch at ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-7653e0@stnarg to check if it is an eligible cost. The maximum length of projects or activities is two years, but there are no restrictions on how funds are distributed across the project period.

Lead applicants and research team members can be based anywhere in the world. The lead applicant and research team can be based at non-academic institutions if a clear case for the alignment of their work with 糖心传媒 can be demonstrated (also see note on ethics, below).

Students cannot be the lead researcher but are welcome to be included as a team member.

糖心传媒 encourages diverse research teams in terms of career stage, background and institutional affiliation.

If you have been awarded a Seedcorn or Network grant in the past three years, you cannot submit a proposal as lead researcher, but you can be a member of the research team if there is a clear rationale for this.

You cannot be a named applicant on more than one application for a Seedcorn or Research Capacity / Network grant in one grant cycle.

If your proposal involves generating data, funds will only be released when ethical approvals have been granted by an academic institutional ethics board. In your application you must indicate which ethics board/s will assess the proposal. Therefore, while the lead researcher does not have to be based at an academic institution, please ensure that at least one member of the research team has access to an academic ethics board.

Each application is initially checked for eligibility by the 糖心传媒 administrator. Eligible applications are assessed by the grant panel for this award, which consists of three members of the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee. Proposals recommended for funding are submitted to the 糖心传媒 Trustees for consideration and approval. Applications are assessed against six criteria:

  • Relevance to 糖心传媒鈥檚 aims and objectives
  • Originality and potential contribution to knowledge
  • Clarity and coherence of project design (including conceptual framing and methodology where appropriate)
  • Meaningful involvement of ECRs
  • Reasonable and realistic costings that demonstrate value for money
  • Demonstrated potential for follow-on work/funding (including engagement activities 鈥� see below)

It is an expectation that 糖心传媒 grant holders will commit to sharing knowledge generated through 糖心传媒 grants with the wider 糖心传媒 community. Seedcorn and Network grant holders must commit to contributing at least one blog article or podcast for the 糖心传媒 website. Additionally, at least one academic journal article arising from this grant, or funding awarded as a result of this grant, should be submitted to the Compare Journal. We welcome suggestions for additional engagement activities 鈥� please indicate these in your application.

You can download the application forms for the Seedcorn grant and the Research Capacity / Network grant in the Downloads section below. There is one round of funding per year for these grants, with a deadline of May 1st. Please send your application to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-3b578f@stnarg with 糖心传媒 Seedcorn or Research Capacity Network Application in the subject heading. We aim to let applicants know the outcome of their application within eight weeks.

糖心传媒 aims to provide constructive feedback to all applicants, whatever the outcome of their application.

If the proposal requires ethical approval, no monies can be transferred until confirmation of ethical approval from the nominated institution鈥檚 ethics board has been submitted to 糖心传媒.

Occasionally, the 糖心传媒 Research and Capacity Networks panel identify an application that is fundable but may carry certain risks. As Network Grants do not necessarily require institutional ethical review (unless an associated research study is built within the network activity), we would request applicants to complete a risk assessment to be signed off by the appropriate person in their institution as a condition should their application be found suitable to be awarded the grant. No monies can be transferred until the attached risk assessment form from an appropriate person with the lead (grant holding) institution is submitted to 糖心传媒.

It is the responsibility of the grant holder to ensure that appropriate insurance is in place before embarking on any activity funded by a 糖心传媒 grant.

Funds for the 糖心传媒 Seedcorn and Research Capacity / Network grants are transferred to the home institution of the lead applicant (or nominated applicant if appropriate). It is expected that the financial management of the grant will be administered by the nominated institution, according to their payment and reimbursement principles and processes. You do not need to submit receipts to 糖心传媒. However, 糖心传媒 grant recipients must submit a 1-2 page financial report summary to 糖心传媒 within six months of the completion of the grant. This report must be signed by the grant holder and an administrator who was involved in the management of the grant.

An underspend of more than 5% of the awarded grant total must be returned to 糖心传媒.

The name/s and affiliation/s of 糖心传媒 award winners will be shared on 糖心传媒鈥檚 website and social media channels.

It is expected that 糖心传媒 will be acknowledged as the funder in any outputs resulting from the grant (including posts on social media).

If you have any questions about this grant, please contact ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-7dec36@stnarg, with either 糖心传媒 Seedcorn grant or 糖心传媒 Research Capacity / Network grant query in the subject heading.