New Funding Opportunities from JISC

Date: 4-January-2010 

JISC is offering grants for ESD, Interdisciplinary Research and its Managing Research Data Programme.

Small Grant Funding: Interdisciplinary
The Higher Education Academy’s ESD Project invites applications for the funding of small grants designed to develop small-scale work in the area of interdisciplinarity. Whilst the growing sustainability agenda is giving rise to interdisciplinary research in HEIs, interdisciplinary teaching and learning is less developed, indicating a gap between interest on the one hand, and slow progress on the other – often related to existing boundaries and barriers pertaining in institutions. This funding is designed to encourage bidders to develop collaborative activities that can research, inform, and build on the interdisciplinary nature of ESD and explore its potential for curriculum innovation and renewal. It is expected that the bids will be curriculum and pedagogy focused.

The ESD Project is setting aside £25k for these grants; the maximum funding for any single proposal will be £5k.

Expressions of interest of not more than 250 words are invited by noon on Monday 18 January 2010.

Interdisciplinary Research Grant Bids from Subject Centres
The Academy ESD Project is offering a total of £20k (£10k each) for two collaborative bids from SCs to undertake interdisciplinary ESD activities. This funding is designed to enable SCs to build on their own plans for ESD, develop collaborative activities that can research, inform, and build on the interdisciplinary nature of ESD, and explore the potential of ESD to enable curriculum innovation and renewal across subject areas.

Applications should be submitted by noon on Monday 8 March 2010.

Managing Research Data Programme Grants
JISC is inviting proposals for projects under three separate strands of the Managing Research Data Programme.

  1. Strand A: Citing, Integrating and Linking Research Data: To demonstrate the innovative potential for research and scholarly communications of improving methods for citing, integrating and linking research data.
  2. Strand B: Enhanced Research Data Publications: To explore innovative technical and organisational models for data publication by scoping and piloting enhanced publications for research data in the form of ‘data journals’, ‘overlay journals’, or similar.
  3. Strand C: Research Data Management Training: To promote research data management skills in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) through designing and piloting training units for undergraduate or postgraduate courses, for librarians or research support staff, or in the form of summer schools or roadshows.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is Friday 12 February 2010.

 

 

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