Deadline: 15-Oct-22
The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) is seeking applications for its first all-Scotland international relations institute providing a hub for collaborative policy-relevant research and a home for informed, non-partisan debate on all areas of global affairs, broadly defined.
SCGA provides a forum to bring together the public, private and not-for-profit sectors with civil society and academic expertise to encourage dialogue, debate and the dissemination of expertise on issues of global importance. SCGA forges new relationships and deepens existing ties with universities and civil society in the rest of the United Kingdom as well as with centres of expertise in Europe and across the world.
SCGA’s core mission is threefold:
- to provide a much-needed institutional framework to facilitate and amplify multi-disciplinary research and to link this expertise with policy stakeholders in Scotland, the UK and beyond.
- to promote informed discourse and debate on international affairs within Scotland through informed commentary and an exciting series of public-facing events.
- to forge partnerships with cognate civil society and research institutions in the UK, Europe and beyond to amplify the global reach of Scottish expertise.
Themes
- Human Rights, Immigration, Migration, Refugees
- Foreign Policy, Peace Building, Conflict Resolution
- International Law, Trade and Global Governance
- Defence and Security
- Global Public Health, International Development
- Sustainability, Fisheries, Climate Change, Energy
Funding Information
Three types of funding awards are available: Insight Awards (up to £7500), Connections Awards (up to £2500), and Engagement Awards (up to £2500).
Eligibility Criteria
Funding is open to researchers based in Scotland. The principal investigator should include an email from their line manager supporting the application. Independent researchers not affiliated with any particular higher education institution may apply. Funding involving researchers from outside Scotland is encouraged, but the Principal Applicant must be ordinarily resident in Scotland.
Criteria
- Insight Awards
- Quality of planned research
- Clearly defined goals to produce new policy-relevant insight
- Identifiable outcomes, including knowledge exchange and impact outcomes
- Identifiable and feasible timeline for completion
- Priority will be given to projects involving researchers from more than one organisation or institution in Scotland
- Priority will be given to projects that are interdisciplinary in nature
- Connections Awards
- Clearly defined goals and strategies to produce new and lasting connections across and among Scottish-based research
- Identifiable outcomes, including knowledge exchange and impact outcomes
- Identifiable and feasible timeline for completion
- Projects must involve researchers from more than one organisation or institution in Scotland
- Engagement Awards
- Clearly defined strategies to produce and sustain engagement across academic and non-academic communities
- Identifiable outcomes, including knowledge exchange and impact outcomes
- Identifiable and feasible timeline for completion
- Projects must involve researchers from more than one organisation or institution in Scotland
For more information, visit https://scga.scot/2022/08/17/scga-call-for-funding-proposals-2022/