FUNDING: RESEARCH / SCHOLARSHIPS / BACS-TAIWAN STUDENTSHIPS Research Funding The relevant UK research councils are the AHRC & ESRC which offer funding for major research projects, research fellowships and postgraduate scholarships (for master and doctoral degrees). The latter are mostly from block grants accessed through specific universities, though there are some open scholarships that can be applied for directly. The British Academy also offers a range of research grants, from major project grants (up to £150k) to senior research fellowships (with Leverhulme), and postdoctoral fellowships, to small research grants, and grants for conferences, visiting scholars, travel awards, etc. In addition there are independent UK foundations that support research. The most relevant is the The Leverhulme Trust which offers grants under a number of categories including major projects (up to £500k), research, early career, study abroad and visiting fellowships, and international network (collaborative research) grants. Others include: the Nuffield Foundation, oriented towards the law, education, families and society; The Wolfson Foundation, mainly science and medicine and infrastructure, but including research professorships in the arts; the Wellcome Trust, funding medical research including the history of medicine and bioethics; and the Thomson Foundation, supporting media and journalism, and including Xinhua as a partner. The Universities China Committee in London (UCCL) offers small grants (up to £1.5k) mainly for research visits between China and the UK (deadlines end of February, May, August, October) The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation offers a range of grants for research projects (up to EUR120k) institutional staffing (to EUR140k) research fellowships, doctoral / postdoctoral scholarships, and conference and publication grants. National Central Library (Taiwan) Centre for Chinese Studies Research Grant Programme. The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies offers small sums of funding for research projects related to language teaching and linguistics and also has a guest speaker fund. Projects must relate to the learning and teaching of languages, linguistics or area studies in UK higher education and be of benefit to the wider community. |
