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Our Social Science Plus scheme offers £10K for UCL social science led cross-disciplinary pilot projects that will lay the basis for future funding applications.
Our 2024-25 call is now open (closing date: 11am, 4 June 2024)
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Scheme overview
- £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
- Note a new eligibility requirement: Only Principal Investigators who are UCL social scientists from the IOE or the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences (our scheme funders) are eligible to apply. Co-Investigators / ECRs / Additional Collaborators may be based in any UCL faculty. Further eligibility requirements are detailed in our call guidance.
- 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 genuinely inter/cross-disciplinary, innovative and research based
- Our scheme is competitive - we typically receive around 15-20 applications for two grants. This round of the scheme will fund at least two projects
- To date the scheme has invested over £160K in 15 projects and supported over 40 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
- We have received generous funding from IOE and the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences to support this call
- Application closing date: 11am, 4 June 2024