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The Higher Education Psychology Network Miniprojects
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| Psychology Network | A key role for the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network is to support innovations and enhancements in psychology learning and teaching practice. We have earmarked a proportion of our funding to support miniprojects; the maximum funding for any one project will normally be £6,000. The scheme is designed to:- encourage a culture in which innovative developments in learning, teaching and assessment are valued and acknowledged at a national level
- promote good practice in the development and evaluation of innovative methods of learning, teaching and assessment
- disseminate within the wider community innovative methods or materials originally developed for use within a single institution
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Enhancing the Student Experience
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| MEDEV | | This is an open call for bids up to £2,000, with annual review meetings in December, April and August each year. There is a maximum of approximately £15,000 available per year for specific activities. Bids should reach the Subject Centre by the last day of the preceeding month in each case. Proposals for less than £2,000 each would be particularly welcome which would allow us to fund a wider range of activities. |
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Use of 'Web2.0' technologies
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| JISC | | A study to investigate issues arising from the use by students and teachers of 'Web2.0' technologies to share educational content and, in particular, how such technologies can inter-relate with universities' institutional systems and policies to support effective practice |
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Workshop scheme
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| MEDEV | | The workshop scheme is designed to provide small amounts of funding to promote and disseminate effective learning and teaching activities in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine.This scheme primary purpose is to:
- support dissemination of good practice to a wider audience;
- promote colla... |
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Mini-projects: Call for bids
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| LLAS | | The Subject Centre is funding small projects to address the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education. The scheme is aimed at academics wanting to develop and evaluate new approaches to their teaching practices. |
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RLO Development Fund
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| ICS | | As part of the JISC distributed e-learning programme, the ICS subject centre has received funding to support a special strand of the ICS development fund dedicated to increasing constituency involvement in the development, use and embedding of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) and Question Banks (QBs) |
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Call for case study proposals
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| JISC | | The JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service (JISCPAS) invite proposals for case studies from members of the HE and FE community. As a means of further developing the service's evidence base of good practice in preventing plagiarism and related matters, proposals must support the six themes of the Plagiarism Advisory Service roadmap. |
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Mini projects
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| Engineering Subject Centre | | The Mini-Project funding enables the sharing and development of good practice and resources in engineering education that will be beneficial to the wider engineering community. Funded Mini-Projects should produce resources that will be beneficial to the wider engineering community as well as to themselves. |
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Larger Grants
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| The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | | Submissions for Larger Grants, up to £40,000, may be made for projects which are of interest to the Scottish universities as a whole. These grants are not intended for individual research projects of a kind that would be submitted to a research council, and projects that have failed to secure fundin... |
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Worldwide Congress Grants
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| The British Academy | | Grants are available for the congresses of major subject areas or disciplines, ordinarily occurring every three, four or five years, and involving an extensive programme and large attendance from all over the world. It should clearly be the British turn to host such a congress, and the event should ... |
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Biomedical Research Fellowships
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| CRF | | These are awarded to well-qualified young academic staff to enable them to pursue a three-year programme of research in a Scottish higher education or research institution. The research must be in the biological, biochemical, physical or clinical sciences related to medicine and will normally be carried out on a full-time basis. Applications to work on a part-time basis will be considered in certain circumstances. Normally two Personal Research Fellowships are awarded each year. |
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Short Visits from the UK
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| The Royal Society | | The key objectives of short visits are to initiate one-to-one collaborations, explore opportunities to build lasting networks and gain access to complementary equipment, data observations and ideas. Both UK and overseas host scientists should have established contact before submitting an application, either through previous collaboration or correspondence. |
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Research Leave Scheme
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| AHRC | | The Research Leave scheme provides salary and associated costs for periods of three or four months, to enable an individual researcher to complete a significant research project by the end of the award period. The employing institution is expected to offer relief from teaching and other duties both in this period and an equivalent period in the term or semester immediately preceding. |
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Research grants
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| AHRC | | The Research Grants scheme is intended to support well-defined research projects enabling individual researchers to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other individuals and organisations through the conduct of research. The scheme is not intended to support individual scholarship. |
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UK-Africa Academic Partnerships
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| The British Academy | | In an initiative developed by the British Academy's Africa Panel, two awards of up to £10,000 a year for up to three years are available to support the development of ongoing links between UK and African research centres or institutions, within the humanities and social sciences. The link would be b... |
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
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| The British Academy | | This scheme is designed to enable outstanding recently postdoctoral scholars to obtain experience of research and teaching in the university environment, which will strengthen their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent posts by the end of the fellowship. Applicants must have obtained their doctorate recently (normally within 2 years of taking up an award), and must not have held an established teaching post in an institution of higher education. |
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Centre for Bioscience Teaching Development Fund
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| Centre for Bioscience | | The Centre for Bioscience is pleased to announce the availability of grants of up to £3000 to encourage the development, establishment or validation of innovative learning, teaching and assessment materials or methods. The primary focus of the Teaching Development Fund is to develop and disseminate ... |
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Early career fellowships
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| The Leverhulme Trust | | The aim of this fund is to provide career development opportunities for those with a proven record of research who do not hold, or have not held a full-time established academic post in a UK university or comparable institution in the UK. |
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