ISRF Independent Scholar Research Fellowship

[administrator]

The Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) wishes to support independent-minded researchers to do interdisciplinary work which is unlikely to be funded by existing funding bodies. It is interested in original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems.

 

The Foundation intends to award on a competitive basis, to candidates of sufficient merit, up to two Independent Scholar Fellowship grants to support original interdisciplinary research, across the range of the social sciences, to be held from a start date no later than the end of December 2015.

 

The award is intended to enable the buy-out from current occupation of an independent scholar to pursue his/her research full- or part-time (or for support if unwaged) for a period of up to 12 months, and will be considered to a maximum of £25,000 per successful applicant. The awards are not intended to support newly qualified scholars entering the post-doctoral stage. Reasonable childcare or other domestic costs may be considered.

 

An ‘Independent Scholar’ is understood as someone, whether or not currently in employment, who is engaged on intellectual work of a nature and standard comparable to that of a professional academic.

 

Normally applicants will hold a PhD. Other academic or professional qualifications may be considered, along with publications usually in peer-reviewed academic journals. Monographs, professional journals and the popular media may also be considered.

 

The research proposed may include, but is not confined to: initiation of a project or of research level work intended to draw on or contribute to one of the professions, completion of a project, or preparation of an article or monograph for publication, based on existing work.

 

Referees will be asked not only to assess the value of the project, but to comment on the applicant’s intellectual orientation and acumen, and commitment to intellectual values.

 

The proposals will be assessed on the same criteria and by the same selection process as the foundation’s professional academic fellowships.

 

Applicants should consult the Criteria as set out in the Further Particulars (see link below) and show that they meet them. Applicants should follow the Application procedure and should present their Proposal in the format specified there.

 

Closing date for applications is 4pm on August 18th 2014.

 

http://www.isrf.org/grant-competitions/isf2/isrf-goals/