Our Schemes - updated October 2009

Carnegie Research Grants

Open to Members of Staff (or Retired Members of Staff)

The Trust can help members of staff or, on a discretionary basis, retired members of staff of a Scottish University, by the provision of small research grants (maximum £2,200) for personal research, personally conducted. The grants are awarded for travel and accommodation, for up to three months, incurred while undertaking the project.

Assistance can be given with the publication of scholarly books, in the form of a guarantee against loss. The publication of illustrations in colour can also be assisted where colour is essential to comprehension.

Doctoral researchers who are Carnegie Scholars, Caledonian Research Foundation Scholars, or Henry Dryerre Scholars are eligible to apply for Research Grants.

Closing dates for applications: applicants must submit their applications, electronically followed by a signed hard copy by 15th January, 15th May and 15th October.

These are the Regulations for Research Grants and Publication/Illustration Grants: Research Grant Regulations Publication or Illustrations Grant Regulations Application forms are here for Research Grants Publication and Illustration Grants:

Research Grant Regulations		Publication or Illustrations Grant Regulations
Application forms are here for
Research Grants		Publication and Illustration Grants

NOTES:

1. When the applicant is a graduate of a Scottish University, but not an established or retired member of the academic staff of a Scottish University, an application will only be considered in very exceptional circumstances. The applicant must be working under the aegis of a Scottish University and the project should be in association with, or likely to be of specific benefit to, one or more of the Scottish universities. Such applicants must present with their application a certificate making the case by the Principal or a Vice-Principal of the university/ies concerned.

2. Postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers on research appointments funded by an organisation other than the Trust are not eligible. In very exceptional cases, when the applicant and the proposal are of an unusually high quality, the Executive Committee will be prepared to consider applications from non-Trust-funded doctoral or postdoctoral researchers, where the case is explained in writing by the Principal or a Vice Principal of the applicant’s university.

3. The Trust does NOT assist with attendance at conferences or with the holding of conferences in Scotland or with bringing scholars from abroad. Purchase of equipment and consumables and services such as carbon dating, payments to research assistants, secretarial and technical assistance are all EXCLUDED.
Application forms are here for

research grants

illustration and publication grants

Graduates of Scottish Universities

When the applicant is a graduate of a Scottish University but not an established or retired member of the academic staff of a Scottish University an application will only be considered in very exceptional circumstances. The applicant must be working under the aegis of a Scottish University and the project should be in association with, or likely to be of specific benefit to, one or more of the Scottish universities.  Such applicants must present with their application, a certificate making the case by the Principal or a Vice-Principal of the university/ies concerned.

Doctoral researchers who are Carnegie Scholars, Caledonian Research Foundation Scholars or Henry Dryerre Scholars are eligible to apply for Research Grants.

Postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers on research appointments funded by an organisation other than the Trust are not eligible.  In very exceptional cases, when the applicant and the proposal are of an unusually high quality, the Executive Committee will be prepared to consider applications from non-Trust-funded doctoral or postdoctoral researchers where the case is explained in writing by the Principal or a Vice Principal of the applicant’s university. 

We cannot help graduates undertaking a taught postgraduate degree under the Research Grants.

The Trust does NOT assist with attendance at conferences or with the holding of conferences in Scotland or with bringing scholars from abroad. Purchase of equipment and consumables and services such as carbon dating, payments to research assistants, secretarial and technical assistance are all excluded.

Research Grant Regulations and Notes for Guidance for Applicants,

Research Grant Application

Larger Grants

Submissions for Larger Grants, up to £40,000, may be made for projects which are of interest to the Scottish universities as a whole. These grants are not intended for individual research projects of a kind that would be submitted to a research council, and projects that have failed to secure funding from a council are not appropriate. The Trust does not expect to be the sole funder of a project and the other universities are expected to show their support in cash or in kind or in some other way. Prospective applicants are invited to discuss their proposals with the Trust's Secretary. Submissions (there is no application form) must reach the Trust for consideration at meetings at the end of February and May respectively. Please note there will only be one meeting for Larger Grants in 2009-10 which will be held in May 2010 with a closing date of 1 March. Applicants may be invited to interview.

Larger Grant Regulations

Carnegie Centenary Professorships

To mark the centenary of the founding of the Trust in 1901, the Executive Committee has created a Centenary Fund and has established a scheme of visiting professorships, intended to benefit not only the host Universities but also the Scottish university community as a whole.

The aim of the scheme is to attract nominees of the highest academic standing who will contribute to academic/scientific developments in the Scottish Universities in their particular fields, whether in teaching or research or in both, in emerging as well as established disciplines or in interdisciplinary fields. The roles they fulfil will depend in part on the discipline. There will also be the possibility of attracting senior scholars of high distinction who, by their very presence, will confer benefits on the Scottish universities.

Nominations are made by invitation and normally from the Principals of the Scottish Universities.

Carnegie Centenary Professorship Guidelines

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