As part of the Science and Heritage programme, AHRC and EPSRC are making funding available to support creative, cross-disciplinary research activities through Interdisciplinary Research Grants. Funding is available for between five and eight Interdisciplinary Research Grant projects (depending on value and quality), each at a maximum full economic cost of £800,000, and with a duration between 1 and 3 years. Proposals for 3 year grants may propose a maximum of three studentships in association with the project. The earliest permissible start date for projects will be 1st April 2010.
The Interdisciplinary Research Grants competition will be conducted in 2 stages; an outline stage, followed by a second stage where selected outline bids will be invited to submit a full proposal.
The closing date for the receipt of an outline proposal was 4pm on Thursday the 14th May 2009.
Applications to the full stage of this competition are by invitation only. The deadline for these proposals is 4pm on Thursday 17th September 2009. For information on this stage of the call, please contact one of the AHRC Awards Officers listed below.
You must submit an application through the cross-council Joint Electronic Submission - (JE-S) System. If you need any assistance to use the system, please contact the JE-S helpdesk on (01793 444164 or on JesHelp@rcuk.ac.uk).
AHRC is administering this call on behalf of AHRC and EPSRC and this competition is based on the AHRC responsive mode Research Grants scheme. However is it vital that you read the Full details of the call for Science and Heritage Interdisciplinary Research Grants (outline stage) (396kb) on how to apply to this competition.
Please note that an error was made in the call guidance originally posted on this page. The correct instructions for how to prepare a proposal for this competition are as follows:
To prepare your proposal in Je-S choose ‘Add New Document’, then specify Council: AHRC, Document Type: Outline Proposal, Scheme: AHRC Outline, and ‘Create Document’. Je-S will then create a grant proposal, displaying appropriate section headings. You should then choose the appropriate call in the form itself: 'Science and Heritage LG Outlines 14 May 2009'. Using ‘Help’ at any point accesses helptext within the Je-S system which provides context-specific guidance on how to complete the Je-S form.
You should also ensure that you have read the Science and Heritage Programme Specification (108kb) document before submitting a proposal.
Enquiries about the scholarly content of the Science and Heritage Programme, its aims and themes, should be directed to the Programme Director, Professor May Cassar, at the contact address below:
Professor May Cassar
Director, Science and Heritage Programme
Tel: 020 7679 1780
E-mail: m.cassar@heritagescience.ac.uk
The AHRC work with the RCUK Shared Services Centre (SSC) to deliver all of our funding activities. All queries regarding eligibility for funding and applications in progress and also queries regarding current awards, should be directed to the SSC team dealing with your subject area using the contacts page.
EPSRC remit queries should be directed to:
Dr Louise Tillman, louise.tillman@epsrc.ac.uk, 01793 444 510