CACSSS Research

COST Open call for Research Networks

COST invites researchers throughout Europe to submit proposals for research networks and use this unique opportunity to exchange knowledge and to embark on new European perspectives. A continuous Open Call for Proposals is used to attract the best proposals for new COST Actions. The support will cover the costs of networking activities such as meetings (e.g. travel, subsistence, local organiser support), conferences, workshops, short-term scientific exchanges, training schools, publications and dissemination activities. COST does not fund the research itself.

Next collection date: 30 March 2012

For full details, see: http://www.cost.esf.org/participate/open_call

ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (Social Sciences and Humanities)

ERC Advanced Grants are intended to support the very best research to be conducted in EU Member States and Associated Countries. Being highly competitive and awarded on the sole criterion of excellence, without restriction to particular areas of research, the grants are aimed to promote substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, and to encourage new productive lines of enquiry and new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines.

This funding scheme targets researchers who have already established themselves as being independent research leaders in their own right and who would like to pursue frontier research of their choice.

The aim is to fund individual teams led by established, innovative and active advanced investigators - called Principal Investigators (PI) in the funding scheme - regardless of nationality, age or current location.

The maximum grant amount will be EUR 2 500 000 for a maximum period of 5 years. However, in exceptional cases an additional sum of up to EUR 1 000 000 funding can be made available.

Closing date for applications: 11 April 2012

IRCHSS and Family Support Agency Growing Up in Ireland Awareness School Scheme

The Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) is inviting applications to the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) Awareness School Scheme. This call is managed by IRCHSS on behalf of the Family Support Agency under the aegis of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The aim of the GUI Awareness School is to promote an interest among researchers in mining the Growing Up in Ireland Longitudinal Study findings with a view to identifying suitable family-related studies that the Family Support Agency could facilitate in 2012. Please see terms and conditions below for further details.

Closing date for applications: 24 February 2012

NUI Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

For the purpose of the Fellowship, the Humanities are defined as including subjects in all branches of Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are offered for competition in 2012. Of these, the University is pleased to introduce the Dr Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. This new Fellowship is to honour the memory of the late Chancellor of the National University of Ireland who died in 2011.

Each Fellowship valued at €80,000, i.e. €40,000 per annum, to be paid in instalments over a two-year period. Open to NUI graduates of doctoral status. Full-time members of academic staff not eligible.

Closing date for entries Friday 27 April 2012

For full details see: http://www.nui.ie/awards/research.asp

Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Co-funded by the Crisis Pregnancy Programme)

Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Co-funded by the Crisis Pregnancy Programme)

The Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects Scheme has been established to facilitate established researchers working within a small team to bring existing research activities or short term projects to successful completion by way of teaching buy-out, postdoctoral support and limited project funding. Thus this scheme will also support research-based teaching and knowledge transfer initiatives.

Awards will be made through a competitive process administered by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). Awards are valued up to a total of €100,000 (not including overhead) and are tenable for a period of one year.

For 2012-13 IRCHSS is offering three types of Collaborative Research Projects under this Scheme:

• ·         A Starter Collaborative Research Project
• ·         An Advanced Collaborative Research Project
• ·         A Crisis Pregnancy Programme Collaborative Project

Applicants may only apply to one of the three strands.

For further information: http://www.irchss.ie/funding/government-ireland-collaborative-research-projects-humanities-and-social-sciences-co-funded-

Closing date for submission: Friday 20^th April 2012 by 4pm