Subject Centre Grants and Application Criteria

HEA funding available

The Higher Education Academy is offering £315,000 funding for individual, collaborative and departmental grants.

Amount: £7000.00

Application deadline: June 15th 2011

The Higher Education Academy is offering bid-based development grant funding to stimulate evidence-based research and encourage innovations in learning and teaching that have the potential for sector-wide impact.

Over the next year there will be a total of £1.5 million of funding available for individual grants, departmental grants and collaborative grants.

Phase One

The first phase begins with an open call for individual grant scheme bids. There is a total of £315,000 available in this phase with a maximum of £7,000 per project.

£28,000 is ring fenced for new academic staff (anyone with less than five years experience in a full time permanent post). A further £28,000 is ring fenced for HEA Fellows who have never had a teaching development grant before.

Bids are invited from anyone responsible for the student learning experience who is working in higher education institutions in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or England that subscribe to the Higher Education Academy. The themes for this call are:

  • Internationalisation
  • Employability

Closing date for phase one bids is 15 June 2011.

For full details, including how to apply, visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding

In previous years the Subject Centre offered funding in the areas below. These calls for bids are now closed.

The thirteenth tranche of project funding - Call for project proposals
The SC has made £25k of funding available for small projects in UK HE departments.

Research 'training' and professional development for doctoral students in philosophical and religious studies
Proposals are invited for £10k funding to run initiatives to support postgraduate research students.

Progression in Philosophy - Call for project proposals
Call for project proposals (x2) for issues in progression from A-Level/Highers to degree level in philosophy.