Grant Opportunity to engage the Public with Environmental Science (UK)

Deadline: 18-May-22

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is offering grants to support public engagement with environmental science research.

• have diverse delivery teams
• engage with diverse audiences
• address diverse topics
• take place in a wide range of diverse locations across the UK
• engage audiences at a local and national level
• use a range of multidisciplinary approaches including from the social sciences, engineering and the arts.

Funding Information

• Total fund: £96,000
• Award range: £5,000 – £10,000

What will not be funded?

• directly allocated costs or indirect costs
• estates and in-direct costs
• fees or honoraria to people already in paid employment to deliver activities where such activities would reasonably be undertaken as part of their normal duties
• retrospective funding, including those projects with a start date after the closing date but before the funding decisions are announced
• infrastructure or building costs
• expenses incurred submitting the application
• academic courses such as master’s degrees or PhDs, and other tuition fees.

Project budgets must be designed to take into consideration the following:

• public groups may not be charged an entrance fee to engage
• prize money may not be given to winners in competitions.

Eligibilty Criteria

• environmental science researchers, including early career researchers and PhD students
• researchers across academic disciplines or fields outside academia
• public engagement specialists
• community organisations, public or public-facing groups, for example:
  • learned societies
  • environment and diversity groups
  • charity members
  • community groups
  • local authorities or commercial companies providing a public service business, third sector and government bodies.
• PhD students are welcome to apply as the main applicant for this grant with permission from their PhD supervisor, and their Doctoral Training Partnerships or Centres for Doctoral Training, where applicable.
• Successful projects with PhD students listed as the main or co-applicant will be required to submit evidence of supervisor permissions before receiving funding. Care should also be taken that the proposed project does not negatively impact the student’s planned PhD training and workload.
• Applications must include a researcher who is eligible for UKRI funding and working within NERC’s remit (but not necessarily funded by NERC) as a main or co-applicant. For example, a public engagement coordinator from the charity sector may apply for this grant as the main applicant, if one of the co-applicants is an environmental science researcher from an eligible research organisation.
• You must be eligible to apply for this opportunity on behalf of your organisation. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have approval from your organisation to receive funding. The organisation representative’s signature is required on the application form.
• You may only submit one application as the main applicant or co-applicant.
• Organisations and any individuals listed as a collaborator may be named on more than one application, as long as they have sufficient time and resources to complete the committed effort if all applications are successful.
• This opportunity also offers you the chance to observe the assessment process, where you have not had prior experience of this, and if you have not applied for funding from this opportunity.

For more information, visit NERC.

For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/engaging-the-public-with-environmental-science-2022/