Deadline: 10 October 2016
Nuffield Foundation is seeking applications for its various research and innovation programmes with an aim to improve social well-being in the widest sense, primarily by funding research and innovation in education and social policy.
The Foundation believes that policy and practice should be influenced by evidence that is independent and rigorous. It is also committed to ensuring robust evidence for the future by funding programmes to build longer-term capacity in education and social science research.
Funding Information
- Research and innovation grants normally range in size from £10,000 up to £350,000, with most lying between £50,000 and £200,000.
- Foundation occasionally make grants larger than £350,000 but these are exceptional and often take longer to process.
- Foundation also occasionally makes smaller grants for pilots or research and development work that may cost less than £10,000.
- Most projects fund are under four years in duration, but foundation will occasionally consider proposals that have a longer timescale.
Funding Areas
- Children and Families – funds projects to help ensure that social policy and the institutions governing family life in the UK are best adapted to meet the needs of children and families. We have a particular interest in child welfare and development and child protection.
- Early Years Education and Childcare – funds projects in our priority areas of educational attainment and child development outcomes, tackling social disadvantage, parental and family contexts, wider societal impacts, and public policy mechanisms.
- Economic Advantage and Disadvantage – funds projects on the distribution of all aspects of individual and household economic well-being, their causes and consequences.
- Education – funds projects in our priority areas of primary education, secondary education transitions, science and mathematics.
- Finances of Ageing – funds projects related to all aspects of finance, economics, and transfers related to individual and population ageing.
- Law in Society – funds projects designed to promote access to, and improve understanding of, the civil and family justice systems.
- Open Door – for projects that improves social well-being, and meet Trustees’ wider interests, but that lie outside the programme areas above.
Eligibility Criteria
- Foundation do not usually make research and innovation grants to organisations based outside the UK and do not usually fund projects whose focus is outside the UK. However, it welcome applications from UK based organisations to carry out collaborative projects involving overseas partners (particularly in European and Commonwealth countries), especially where these have a capacity building dimension, or which provide useful comparators for UK experience in areas of substantive interest.
- In these cases, the project would need to be led by someone based in the UK, with the overseas partner(s) taking a supporting role.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information, please visit Nuffield Foundation.