UKRI - Growing roots: environmental public engagement 2023 to 2024
Apply for funding to explore, and trial approaches for engaging the public with environmental science.
Applications from a range of backgrounds are welcome, including, researchers, PhD students, public engagement professionals, and community groups.
All applications must include a researcher who is eligible for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding and working within NERC remit.
NERC values diversity and inclusion across all its funding programmes, and actively encourages applications from diverse groups of people.
Projects can range between £3,000 and £10,000 and will run from 29 May 2023 until 26 February 2024.
British Society for the History of Science Engagement Fellowships
This scheme will fund the placement of Master’s or PhD students with heritage organisations and museums for the equivalent of a month’s work (timescales can be arranged between the partner museum and student) as an Engagement Fellow and contribute £1000 towards the costs of public engagement outputs related to the research undertaken.
Apply for funds to engage the public with STFC science, technology or facilities. We’d particularly like to fund projects that engage:
eight to 14-year-olds, and their families, in socio-economically deprived areas
groups considered to have low science capital
The scheme aims to support high-quality public engagement to a range of audiences. The project cost can be up to £15,000 (non-full economic cost). Projects can be for up to 36 months in duration. You must be based at an organisation based in the UK to be eligible for Spark Award funding. The funding scheme falls outside of the full economic cost (FEC) framework, therefore STFC will pay up to £15,000 of your project cost, that is 100% FEC.
The Big Bang at School Programme enables schools to host their own inspiring STEM (careers) Day(s) comprising science, engineering and technology activities, shows, workshops and project work, backed up with careers messaging designed to highlight the breadth of STEM career opportunities available to all young people, irrespective of background.
It comprises 2 elements:
a (delivery-partner) facilitated model delivered to EngineeringUK priority schools
a self-delivered (by teachers) model Big Bang at School Blueprint
EngineeringUK is looking for a delivery partner/s to help deliver a consistent and inspiring range of events to schools and their students in 100 priority schools across the UK.
In 2021, HM Government published its National Space Strategy. Its first goal is to grow and level up our space economy. To achieve this, interventions unlocking growth in the UK space sector include nurturing talent and inspiring the next generation into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. Under its ten-point plan, an initiative to upskill and inspire our future space workforce will contribute to growth.
Under our Inspiration Priority, we are making at least £500,000 available* under this scheme during this comprehensive spending review period ending 31 March 2025. This will be an extremely competitive process in which we seek to offer grants likely to be between £50,000 and £100,000 for each award.
Engagement encompasses many approaches with diverse people in different settings – from schools and laboratories to museums and gardens. We are interested in funding projects and organisations that work with different audiences including youth, families, young carers, older adults or school groups. We are particularly interested in funding work with under-served and under-represented audiences including people with disabilities and people facing social, economic and educational disadvantages.
Through the Fund we aim to support projects or programmes that:
-Develop science communication skills of chemists - building capacity and opportunities for chemists and chemical scientists to engage with schools and public audiences
-Engage with school students - inspiring and raising aspirations of student audiences to nurture a future generation passionate about the chemical sciences
-Engage with public audiences - involving a wide range of people in relevant contemporary issues in the chemical sciences
-Provide under-represented audiences, communities and places with inspiring chemistry engagement opportunities, delivered or coordinated by skilled people
The Ogden Trust
The Trust awards a small number of grants (of up to £5,000) to schools, colleges and other organisations who wish to carry out projects or activities that support the teaching and learning of physics.
Digital Good Research Fund 2024, ‘Evaluating the Digital Good’: call for applications
Digital Good Research Fund 2024, ‘Evaluating the Digital Good’: call for applications
The aim of the Digital Good Network is to enhance our collective understanding of what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.
This year’s call, Evaluating the Digital Good, builds on the foundations from 2023. By evaluation, we mean the systematic assessment of or judgement about whether digital developments and deployments contribute towards a good digital society.
Evaluating the Digital Good invites proposals which do one or more of the following:
explore whether and how the digital good can or should be evaluated
explore how to evaluate the digital good across different technologies, contexts and domains
consider the role of diverse communities, sectors and organisations in evaluating the digital good
test methodological innovations for evaluating the digital good
Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, people, technology or facilities.
You must work for an organisation that:
is based in the UK
produces annual accounts certified by an accountant
Proposals must include a subject matter expert in an STFC funded area.
The scheme is not subject to the full economic cost (FEC) process. The cost of your project can be up to £20,000. STFC will fund 100% of the project cost.
Projects are expected to be between 12 and 36 months in duration.
The OAD is mandated to use astronomy to drive positive developmental change. It is tasked with initiating, supporting, and funding programs that use astronomy as a tool to tackle developmental challenges.
Every year, the OAD coordinates a global call for proposals for projects that aim to use astronomy to promote sustainable development. Since 2013, the office has disbursed IAU grants totalling 851,959 Euros to over 150 projects around the world. The next call for proposals will be announced in April 2022.
