Pre-announcement: ESRC applicant-led: grow awards

Upcoming UKRI funding opportunity · Grant. Open with no closing date. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/esrc-applicant-led-grow-awards/

Apply for funding to build the skills, experience and confidence to make a step-change in your research career. Grow awards support individuals at key career points to develop new capabilities or pivot in a new direction, strengthening the long-term capacity, adaptability and resilience of the UK’s social science research base.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for ESRC funding.

The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £500,000. ESRC will fund 80% of the FEC. Projects can last between 18 months and five years.

This is a pre-announcement and the information may change. More information will be available on this page when the funding opportunity opens.

What we're looking for Aim

A strong and internationally competitive social science research base is built on researchers having opportunities to develop new capabilities or pursue novel directions so they can maximise their full career potential. Grow awards enable researchers at three key career development and transition points to meaningfully strengthen or redirect their skills and experience:

- those establishing their independence as researchers

- those pivoting to a new social science discipline in a bold way

- those developing expertise in advanced or emerging methods, technologies or approaches needed to drive innovation in their field. This development of individuals will enhance the long-term capacity, adaptability and resilience of the UK’s social science research base

Scope

Grow awards support researchers to make a meaningful step-change in their skills, experience and expertise in ways that can open up new opportunities for their field as well as support their individual career development. You will be looking to establish independence at an early research career stage, move within or into social science…