Social Science Plus is the Collaborative Social Science Domain's funding scheme that funds UCL social science led pilot projects that will lay the basis for future funding applications
Scheme outline
- £10,000 for a UCL social science led cross-disciplinary (social science and non-social science) pilot/seed research project that will lay the basis for an external funding application (medium or large) with a strong social science component
- Principal Investigators and Co-investigators must be of post-doctoral standing or above and be employed by UCL during the life of the project
- Applications must be genuninely inter/cross-disciplinary, innovative and research based
- To date the scheme has invested over £120K in 12 projects and supported 37 collaborators across UCL and led to many follow-on projects, publications and networks. A number of projects have helped secure over £1 million in research funding
- Generous funding from IOE and the Faculty of Engineering Sciences supported calls in 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24