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AERC - (Alcohol Education and Research Council) | |
| Aims :The Council's main aims are to: - Generate and disseminate research based evidence to inform and influence policy and practice. - Develop the capacity of people and organisations to address alcohol issues. | |
| Developing People and Organisation Grants | |
| Closing Date : 05 September 2011 Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : Unspecified | |
| Research Grants | |
| Closing Date : 05 September 2011 Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
BBayer AG Phone: - 00 49 214 301 | |
| Aims :To benefit people and improve their quality of life. | |
| Caregivers Award | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : £5K - £10K Duration : 6 mths - 1 year | |
Big Lottery Fund | |
| Aims :Big Lottery Fund is committed to bringing real improvements to communities, and to the lives of people most in need. | |
| Reaching Communities: England | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : > £100K Duration : > 3 years | |
BMJ (British Medical Journal) | |
| Aims :To lead the debate on health, and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. To achieve these aims they publish original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health. | |
| BMJ Group Awards | |
| Closing Date : 04 January 2011 Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
British Sociological Association | |
| Aims :The British Sociological Association's mission is to represent the intellectual and sociological interests of its members. In doing so, the Association aims to: Provide information and services to members; Seek to influence policies affecting sociology within the wider sciences remit; Promote the identity of the discipline and its practitioners/scholars; Enhance the context for the pursuit of sociology; Maintain and encourage links with sociologists throughout the world; Publish journals, books and other materials; Generate income from activities related to the work of the BSA; Establish and maintain suitable systems of management for the BSA; Act as responsible employers, with appropriate concern for the health and welfare of its employees. | |
| BSA Support Fund | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : < £5K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
CCanadian Institutes of Health Research | |
| Aims :CIHR is Canada's premier federal agency for health research. Its objective is to excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened health care system. | |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign and Canadian Postdoctoral Researchers | |
| Closing Date : 01 October 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : > 3 years | |
Centre for Public Scrutiny | |
| Aims :The Centre for Public Scrutiny aims to: * enhance the public’s understanding of what scrutiny means, why it matters and how together they can get it right. * provide a space for scrutineers to learn from one another and share ideas * highlight good scrutiny to encourage others across the public sector to follow suit. * undertake research that can show decision-makers the value of scrutiny and what they can do to help it get better. * provide evidence based and up-to-date guidance for scrutinizers that gives them the tools to approach scrutiny with confidence. | |
| Funding for Innovative Scrutiny | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
EEC (European Commission) Framework 7 Programme (FP7) | |
| Aims :Knowledge lies at the heart of the European Union's Lisbon Strategy to become the "most dynamic competitive knowledge-based economy in the world". The 'knowledge triangle' - research, education and innovation - is a core factor in European efforts to meet the ambitious Lisbon goals. Numerous programmes, initiatives and support measures are carried out at EU level in support of knowledge. | |
| Socio-economic sciences and Humanities Calls: FP7-SSH-2011-2 | |
| Closing Date : 02 February 2011 Amount : > £100K Duration : Unspecified | |
| Socio-economic sciences and Humanities Calls: FP7-SSH-2011-3 | |
| Closing Date : 02 February 2011 Amount : > £100K Duration : Unspecified | |
GGraham Burrough Charitable Trust | |
| Aims :To promote education into the causes of mental illness and to carry out for the public benefit, research into mental illness and to publish the results of such research; To provide either scholarship, bursary or grant to a suitably qualified candidate chosen by the chosen by the Trustees to investigate a specific subject in the field of mental health, such subject to be chosen by the Trustees. To relieve the suffering of those with mental illness and to provide practical relief in the way of enhanced staffing and improved facilities psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric care centres. For the financial support for respite and/or long term care for families of patients suffering from psychiatric illness and disorders where those families are in financial needs. | |
| Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
HHarold Hyam Wingate Foundation | |
| Aims :To enable individuals and institutions of great potential or proven excellence who need financial support to undertake pioneering or original work of intellectual, scientific, artistic, social or environmental value, and to outstandingly talented musicians for advanced training. | |
| Research Support (Education and Social Exclusion) | |
| Closing Date : 10 September 2010 Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation | |
| Aims :To sponsor scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. | |
| Dissertation Fellowships | |
| Closing Date : 01 February 2011 Amount : £50K - £100K Duration : 6 mths - 1 year | |
| Research Grants | |
| Closing Date : 01 August 2011 Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
Health Foundation (The) | |
| Aims :The Health Foundation’s work to improve the quality of healthcare in the UK is organised by five strategic aims. These are: building knowledge, developing leaders, supporting organisations, engaging clinicians and engaging patients. | |
| Quality Improvement Fellowships | |
| Closing Date : 15 October 2010 Amount : Unspecified Duration : 6 mths - 1 year | |
Henry Smith Charity | |
| Aims :The following are the objects of the Main Fund of The Henry Smith Charity: For hospitals, hospices and other forms of residential care or provision of health care for those who are sick or in need and for other institutions providing medical assistance for those in financial need; For the relief of poor, aged or sick persons and their spouses, widows, widowers and dependants; For the relief of poor, aged or sick members of the clergy and their spouses, widows, widowers and dependants; For the relief, rehabilitation and training of disabled persons including disabled ex-Servicemen and war widows; For any medical research; For the promotion of moral welfare or social service; For the relief and rehabilitation of those persons who are or have been slaves or serfs and their dependants who are in need or distress or for preventing their seizure. | |
| Revenue Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| Special List Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : 6 mths - 1 year | |
JJ N Derbyshire Trust | |
| Aims :The objectives of the Trust are the making of charitable donations for the promotion of health, development of physical improvement, advancement of education and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness. | |
| Research Award | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : < £5K Duration : Unspecified | |
Joseph Rowntree Foundation | |
| Aims :The Foundation supports research and development programmes that seeks to better understand the causes of social difficulties and explore ways of better overcoming them, and show how social needs can be met in practice. | |
| A Better Life: Affordability, choices and quality of life in housing with care | |
| Closing Date : 05 October 2010 Amount : £50K - £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| A Better Life: Exploring the potential of approaches based on exchange | |
| Closing Date : 05 October 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| A Better Life: Housing with care - community or care setting? | |
| Closing Date : 05 October 2010 Amount : £50K - £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| A Better Life: Living together, getting along | |
| Closing Date : 05 October 2010 Amount : £50K - £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
MMercers’ Charitable Foundation | |
| Aims :Through the charitable trusts under its control, the Mercers' Company administers a large programme of charitable grant making. The Company also provides housing for the elderly, wide ranging support for education and has active links with many churches. | |
| General Welfare Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : £5K - £10K Duration : Unspecified | |
NNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR) NHS Physical Environment Research Programme | |
| Aims :The aim of the programme is to fund research that benefits patients by: - improving the way property and facilities are managed and maintained promoting safe, high quality and best value design. - promoting safe, high quality and best value design. | |
| Physical Environment Research Programme | |
| Closing Date : 17 September 2010 Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service Yorkshire and the Humber Phone: - 0114 222 0828 | |
| Aims :The National Institute for Health Research Research Design Services (NIHR RDSs) aim to increase the volume and quality of successful grant applications for national funding competitions including NIHR funding. To do this they provide expert advice to help researchers to develop and design high quality research proposals for such competitions. Each RDS is part of the NIHR infrastructure and this support is provided free of charge. | |
| Public Involvement in Grant Applications Funding Awards | |
| Closing Date : 30 September 2010 Amount : £5K - £10K Duration : Single Payment | |
National Institute for Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) Phone: - 023 8059 5586 | |
| Aims :The mission of NETSCC is to provide a single research management centre meeting the stakeholder needs of the research programmes it coordinates, and providing scientific quality to all aspects of the research management process. | |
| NIHR Public Health Research Programme - Commissioned research calls | |
| Closing Date : 08 December 2010 Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (NISCHR) Phone: - 029 20825252 | |
| Aims :NISCHR develops, in consultation with partners, policy on research and development (R&D) to reflect the health and social care priorities of the Welsh Assembly Government. NISCHR aims to support the creation of high-quality evidence to both inform policy and benefit patients and the public. | |
| NISCHR Social Care Small Grant Award | |
| Closing Date : 23 September 2010 Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : 6 mths - 1 year | |
| Social Care Research Award | |
| Closing Date : 30 September 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : Unspecified | |
| Social Care Studentship Award | |
| Closing Date : 16 September 2010 Amount : £50K - £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
NIH - National Institute on Aging Phone: - 001 301 496 1752 | |
| Aims :NIA’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research, and specifically, to support and conduct high-quality research on: Aging processes; Age-related diseases; Special problems and needs of the aged; Train and develop highly skilled research scientists from all population groups; Develop and maintain state-of-the-art resources to accelerate research progress; Disseminate information and communicate with the public and interested groups on health and research advances and on new directions for research | |
| Secondary Analyses of Social and Behavioural Datasets in Aging (R03) | |
| Closing Date : 16 October 2010 Amount : £50K - £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
NIH - National Institutes of Health: Joint Proposals | |
| Aims :NIH is the steward of medical and behavioural research for the US Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behaviour of living systems and the applications of that knowledge to extend health life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. | |
| Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (R01) | |
| Closing Date : 05 October 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : > 3 years | |
| Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (R03) | |
| Closing Date : 16 October 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| Health Services Research on the Prevention and Treatment of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (R21) | |
| Closing Date : 16 October 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| Prevention Research with HIV Positive Individuals (RO3) | |
| Closing Date : 16 October 2010 Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
| Subjective Well-being: Advances in Measurement and Applications to Aging (R01) | |
| Closing Date : 03 November 2010 Amount : > £100K Duration : > 3 years | |
Nuffield Foundation | |
| Aims :To advance social well being by supporting work which will bring about improvements in society, and which is founded on careful reflection and informed by objective and reliable evidence. | |
| Social Science Small Grants Scheme | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : £10K - £50K Duration : Unspecified | |
PPublic Health Agency for Northern Ireland Phone: - 028 9055 3940 | |
| Aims :Improving the health and wellbeing of everyone in Northern Ireland. | |
| Doctoral Fellowships | |
| Closing Date : 15 October 2010 Amount : Unspecified Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
RRayne Foundation Phone: - 020 7487 9656 | |
| Aims :The aim of their work is: to help the most vulnerable or disadvantaged, to provide direct benefits to people and communities, to tackle neglected causes, to lever other funds and encourage the involvement of other organisations, to achieve excellence. | |
| Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
SScottish Thoracic Society | |
| Aims :To provide funds for: Relief of Poverty; Advancement of Education; Advancement of Health. | |
| General Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : Unspecified Duration : Unspecified | |
Sir Halley Stewart Trust | |
| Aims :To promote and assist innovative research activities or pioneering developments with a view to making such work self-supporting. It emphasises prevention rather than alleviation of human suffering. | |
| Project Grants | |
| Closing Date : Apply Anytime Amount : > £100K Duration : 1 year - 3 years | |
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues | |
| Aims :To bring theory and practice into focus on human problems of the group, the community, and nations, as well as the increasingly important problems that have no national boundaries. | |
| Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize | |
| Closing Date : 20 October 2010 Amount : < £5K Duration : Single Payment | |
TTesco Charity Trust Phone: - 0845 6123575 | |
| Aims :To help local and national charities as well as voluntary organisations to provide practical support for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. | |
| Community Award Scheme - Children`s Welfare/Education Grant | |
| Closing Date : 31 January 2011 Amount : < £5K Duration : Single Payment | |
| Community Award Scheme - Elderly/Disabled Person Grants | |
| Closing Date : 30 September 2010 Amount : < £5K Duration : Single Payment | |
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