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Funding opportunities
The BES would like to compile a list of funding opportunities available to ecologists. If you have information on funding that you think would be of interest, please contact the Grants Officer, Dominic Burton .
The BES is not responsible for the content on external websites.
Botanical Society of the British Isles
The BSBI runs a small grants scheme offering awards of up to £1000 (typically £500) to support research to enhance knowledge of the flora of the British Isles. Applications form and further details available from their website.
Community of Science (COS)
The Community of Science is a membership organisation serving researchers, academics, non-profit organisations, and students; their funding opportunities database points them toward research grants, program funding, scholarships, fellowships, prizes and more.
The Darwin Initiative
The Darwin Initiative was announced by the UK Government at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The aim of the Initiative is to assist those countries which are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through the funding of collaborative projects which draw on UK biodiversity expertise.
The Leverhulme Trust
The Trust offers grants and fellowships in support of academic research. Formerly called Special Research Fellowships, Early Career Fellowships provide career development opportunities for those with a proven record of research who do not hold, or have not held a full-time established academic post in a UK university or comparable institution.
Linnean Society Centenary Grant
The Society disburses a limited number of small grants to a total of approximately £30,000 in any one year, as well as awards of medals and prizes for outstanding work in the biological sciences. For further details, please email Adrian Thomas, Executive secretary.
L'Oreal - UNESCO for Women in Science Programme
UK, Ireland and International Fellowships aimed at promoting women in scientific research.
BP Conservation Programme
Six types of grant are offered by the Programme. These are for individual and team conservation research projects.
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
The NERC have a number of funding opportunities. For more details visit their website or email the Science Web Team.
Nuffield Foundation
Their grant-making reflects the Foundation's aim of advancing social well-being particularly by research and practical experiment. The wide range of activities supported by the Foundation fall into two main categories: support of research and innovation that will bring about beneficial social change and development of research and professional capacity, especially in the sciences and the social sciences, targeted at people in the early stages of their careers.
Rothamsted International
Rothamsted International endeavour to share research excellence across the world for the benefit of world-wide agricultural and environmental sustainability in the context of development needs.
UK Population Biology Network (UKPopNet)
UKPopNet's goal is to work towards answers to two questions of pressing importance to science and society, namely: what will be the effects of biodiversity change on the sustainability of ecosystems, landscapes, and livelihoods? and what strategies should we employ to mitigate those effects. UKPopNet funds or participates in eight inter-institutional projects and a series of working groups and workshops.
Tropical Biology Association
The Tropical Biology Association's funding database contains grants and scholarships, training opportunities, and funding lists, to help aspiring African conservation biologists develop their careers.
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
The foundations aim is to help people of exceptional talent who have interesting projects in a variety of fields, and who for one reason or another are unlikely to obtain funding from the usual sources, for example because of their nationality. They do offer funding for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral studies and applicants need to be living in the British Isles during the period of application.
Ecological Society of Americas SEEDS program
The Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) SEEDS program offers Undergraduate Research Fellowships for students underrepresented in the field of ecology.
The SEEDS Program also offers travel awards for undergraduate students, program alumni in graduate school, and Campus Ecology Chapter faculty advisors to attend the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting.
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