AWRN Kick Start Funding

Type of funding: Grant Funding

This award aims to drive forward novel animal welfare research ideas (e.g. by supporting pilot data collection or brainstorming days with collaborators) that lead to future UKRI and other grant applications. In this way it aims to enhance the career development and research skills of future PIs and promote high quality animal welfare grants.
We can fund up to seven Kick-Start projects this year, with up to £7,000 per project. Two of the projects will be ring-fenced for Early Career Researchers, who may for example be aiming to write a Fellowship application. Inter-disciplinarity and collaboration with relevant experts in other fields are encouraged. To ensure that these projects are relevant to stakeholders, we are particularly keen to fund projects where researchers are collaborating with industry or charity partners and co-funding and/or in-kind support are offered.
All projects funded under this scheme will be expected to generate a future grant application, ideally to a UKRI funder, and to produce a summary report detailing outcomes from the award for the AWRN and our funders. Those funded may also be invited to present their findings at the AWRN annual meeting, thus inspiring others to submit applications in future rounds.

Deadline: 29/02/2024

Eligibility criteria:

The main applicant must be an AWRN member or an approved International ECR.
In terms of qualifying as an ECR, you may be classed as an ECR if you do not yet have a permanent role, or are less than 2 years full-time (or equivalent duration of part-time work, excluding career breaks) into your first permanent position (e.g. lecturer).

Further information can be found here.