Deadline: 12-Sep-22
The Nuffield Foundation is pleased to announce the Research, Development and Analysis Fund.
The aim is to advance educational opportunity and social well-being across the United Kingdom. They do this by funding research, development and analysis in education, welfare and justice, and by equipping young people with skills and confidence in quantitative and scientific methods through their student programmes.
Priorities
- Their core interests focus on three broad public policy domains that they have long identified as underpinning a well-functioning society: Education, Welfare and Justice. The priorities within each of these domains are set out in the next sections.
- They encourage the involvement of a range of disciplines to issues in these three domains. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, law, psychology, economics, sociology, geography, and data and computer sciences.
- They welcome cross-disciplinary approaches and also proposals that cut across their domains of interest: to that end, they encourage applicants to read about the priorities in all three domains and consider how their particular topic of interest might relate to these.
Funding Information
- Applications for grants costing up to £750,000 will be considered twice a year.
- Most of the grants they award are below £300,000.
- They also welcome applications between £750,000 and £3 million for more strategic projects, which will be considered once a year, with an outline application submitted in March.
What they fund?
- The Nuffield Foundation’s research, development and analysis portfolio is central to the delivery of their mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being across the UK.
- They expect the work they fund to improve the design and operation of social policy, especially in those domains that they have always identified as underpinning a well-functioning society: Education, Welfare, and Justice.
Types of projects they support
- Research reviews, synthesis, and translation. These may include formal meta-analysis as well as other systematic and narrative reviews that offer a critical evaluation of empirical research, policy and practice within or across their domains. The aim should be to draw out implications for policy and practice reform (including learning from international experience where appropriate) or to generate a new research agenda.
- Pre-trial development work. They fund projects that conceptualise and design innovative interventions and take the concept through an initial pilot phase. The appropriate scope for a project will depend upon the current stage of the intervention’s development.
- Comparison or controlled trials or evaluations. They will consider comparison or controlled trials or evaluations where there is a particularly important and innovative intervention that has already been subjected to formal pre-trial development work. They will also consider funding large-scale trials where the evaluation has a strong design and where there are good prospects for wider implementation.
- Developmental projects. In addition to research, they occasionally fund projects of a more developmental nature. They may or may not lead to larger scale applications for funding from the Foundation.
Eligibility Criteria
Non-UK applications:
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In general, they award grants to a wide range of organisations including, but not confined to, universities based in the UK and for projects focused on the UK context. They do however, welcome applications from UK-based organisations to carry out collaborative projects, possibly involving overseas partners (and/or exploiting data relating to other countries), for example where:
- These provide useful comparators for UK experience in their areas of substantive interest.
- There are lessons to be learned from international experiences.
- Policy or practice overseas might be adapted for the UK.
- There is a capacity building dimension that might benefit the UK.
Exclusions
Some specific categories are not eligible for funding from their research, development, and analysis calls:
- Individuals without a formal employment or other relationship with the institution hosting the grant.
- Projects led by individuals unaffiliated to any particular organisation.
- Projects led by schools or further education colleges.
- Projects led by undergraduates or masters students.
- PhD fees or projects where the main purpose is to support a PhD.
- The establishment of academic posts.
- Ongoing costs or the costs of ‘rolling out’ existing work or services.
- ‘Dissemination-only’ projects, including campaigning work, which are not connected to their funded work.
- Local charities, replacement for statutory funding, or local social services or social welfare provision.
- Requests for financial help or educational fees from or on behalf of individuals.
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