UK/European Research Funding Opportunities

UK/European Research Funding Opportunities

Updated 8 June 2010

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Awards / Fellowships / Prizes

Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) PiPS Partnership in Practice Awards Scotland

Aims: To acknowledge and reward nurses involved in innovative partnership working with other disciplines, voluntary sector, social services, patient groups or the community.
Amount: £2000

Closing Date: 30 June 2010

British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians Hallpike Prize 2010
Aims: To award the best project of the past 24 month period (research, audit or review of subject) in the area of audiovestibular medicine. Applications for the Prize are invited from all, irrespective of discipline or specialty.
Amount: £250
Closing Date: 1 July 2010
Royal College of Radiologists Constance Thornton Fellowship
Aims: Enables a UK clinical radiologist to undertake a research project for furthering of a radiological interest in the UK or abroad
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing Date: 05 August 2010
Arthritis Research Campaign Barbara Ansell Fellowships in Paediatric Rheumatology
Aims: The purpose of these one-year entry-level training fellowships is to stimulate and encourage research in paediatric rheumatology.
Amount: £10k - £50k
Closing Date: Open
Big Lottery Fund Awards for All
Aims: To allow people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.
Amount: England, Northern Ireland and Scotland: £300 - £10k; Wales: £500 - £5k
Closing Date: Open
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC Scientific Interchange
Aims: The BBSRC invites applications under its international scientific interchange scheme for short-term travel awards to enable scientists to make and establish new contacts with their international counterparts.
Amount: Up to £5k
Closing Date: Open
European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases ESPID Training Fellowships
Aims: To fund visits by ESPID members to other centres to obtain experience or training in techniques or areas not otherwise available to them.
Amount: < £5k
Closing Date: Open
REMEDI Research Awards
Aims: To fund medical research into rehabilitation or disability.
Amount: £50k - £100k
Closing Date: Open

Research Grants

British Scoliosis Research Foundation Research Grant
Aims: To support research into the causes and treatment of scoliosis.
Amount: Unspecified
Closing Date: 30 June 2010
Sparks (Sport Aiding Medical Research for Kids) Research Grants
Aims: To fund medical research related to the prenatal period and the early years aimed at providing a therapeutic intervention that will make a significant contribution to reducing mortality or relieving the condition, disease or disability in question.
Amount: < £100k
Closing Date: 23 August 2010
Kids Kidney Research Research Grants
Aims: To support vital kidney research for babies and children across the UK.
Amount: £50K - £100K
Closing Date: 31 December 2010
Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths Project Grant
Aims: Grants are available for research into post-neonatal infant health, morbidity and mortality.
Amount: Unspecified
Closing Date: 28 January 2011
Children's Liver Disease Foundation Small Grants Research Programme
Aims: To fund a small research programme in Childrens Liver Disease.
Amount: £20k per annum will be made available.
Closing Date: Open
Henry Smith Charity Revenue Grants
Aims: To relieve and, where possible, release people from need and suffering.
Amount: £10k - £50k
Closing Date: Open
Henry Smith Charity Special List Grants
Aims: To relieve and, where possible, release people from need and suffering.
Amount: £10k - £50k
Closing Date: Open
Sir Halley Stewart Trust Project Grants
Aims: To support innovative and imaginative people who are early in their research career.
Amount: > £100k
Closing Date: Open

Travel Bursaries

British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery Travel Bursary
Aims: To support travel to an international orthopaedic meeting held in the UK or abroad.
Amount: Up to £750
Closing Date: 30 November 2010