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NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES ANNOUNCED

By: debbiew on 03/24/09

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are taking forward a joint £8.1m programme entitled Science and Heritage to support leading-edge research which will explore new ways to understand the cultural and physical nature of heritage and to prepare society for the challenges that cultural heritage will face in the 21st Century.

The AHRC / EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme would like to announce two new competitions for funding:

Interdisciplinary Research Grants

Up to £800,000 fEC
Duration 1-3 years
Must involve at least two collaborating organisations
Open call for outline proposals, followed by request for full applications from short-listed candidates

Outline stage deadline: Thursday 14th May 2009
Full proposal stage deadline: Thursday 17th September 2009

Further information and details of the call for outline proposals can be found here.

Post-doctoral Fellowships

To support outstanding early career researchers to carry out research and so establish an independent research career in heritage science

Duration equivalent to 3 years full-time
Open to researchers with no more than 5 years post-doctoral or equivalent experience
Funding will cover Fellow’s salary and a small amount of travel and subsistence, equipment and consumables

Deadline: Thursday 10th September 2009

Details of the call for Post-doctoral Fellowships are available to download from the AHRC website.

The full Programme Specification, including further details of the themes, is now available for download on the Current Calls for Proposals page.

Contacts

Science and Heritage Programme

Professor May Cassar, Programme Director
m.cassar@heritagescience.ac.uk 020 7679 1780

AHRC

Dr Gail Lambourne, Programme Manager, Heritage
g.lambourne@ahrc.ac.uk 0117 987 6670

Helen McConnell, Senior Awards Officer, Heritage
h.mcconnell@ahrc.ac.uk 0117 987 6659

EPSRC

Dr Louise Tillman, Portfolio Manager Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Louise.Tillman@epsrc.ac.uk 01793 444510

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