Carnegie Research Grants - updated May 2009

Open to Members of Staff or Retired Members of Staff and, in exceptional circumstances, Graduates of Scottish Universities

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 £2,500) 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 (Publication Regulations). The publication of illustrations in colour can also be assisted where colour is essential to comprehension. Closing dates for applications, Applicants must submit their applications, electronically followed by a signed hard copy by 15th January, 15th May and 15th October.

Application forms are here for

research grants, 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

Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York Scholarships

For the academic year 2007-2008 the Society will offer Scholarships to the total value of $40,000 to enable Scottish graduates to study for a year in the United States. Up to two Scholarships will be offered of not less than $20,000 each.

Scholarship Regulations and Notes for Guidance for Applicants

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 by 1 October, or 1 March, for consideration at meetings at the end of February and June respectively. Applicants are likely to 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.

Carnegie Cameron Post-Graduate (Taught) Bursaries

The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland has set up a scheme entitled ‘The Carnegie-Cameron Post-Graduate (Taught) Bursaries’. The Scottish Universities are allocated a certain number of Bursaries by the Trust and the Bursaries are awarded directly by each university. Candidates wishing to be considered for the Bursaries should approach the university where they wish to study and NOT the Trust. The Regulations are given below and application forms can be obtained from the university contacts listed in the Regulations.

Post Graduate (Taught) Bursaries Regulations

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