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Most funders are aiming to keep open for business as usual - so get typing. (Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash) Every part of our liv...

@NIHR, apparently. Or possibly a forgotten Britpop band It's a fast moving world in the Twittersphere, and you have to be quick to b...

Jack Carswell in action last week Last week we hosted a visit by Jack Caswell the Assistant Head of Research Awards at the British Acade...

Each term I feature a different Kent award winner in the Research Services newsletter, looking at their research and discussing their career...

Inter-Multi-Supra-Cross: grappling with definitions I’ve talked about the difficulty of interdiscipinarity before (for instance here , h...

Great news from the Mayfair Gentlemen's Club that is the BA HQ. As you will remember, the BA scrapped, and then reinstated , their Sma...

Exciting news from the Twittersphere! The 'funder least likely to' has actually got a Twitter account. Yes, the British Academy , w...

Well, fresh back from my hols, I'm ploughing through the emails and finding out what I've missed. Firstly, good news from the Britis...

With all the changes at ESRC , EPSRC, STFC and AHRC , it feels like NERC has been dragging its feet somewhat. Not any more. It's annou...

As I reported elsewhere, the recent ESRC events in London and Brighton gave a good insight into developments at the Council, and how they ...

The spat within the humanities community over allegations in Sunday's Observer that the AHRC had been forced to include the 'Big S...

As mentioned in a previous post , the British Academy is phasing out Small Grants and Conference Funding. To this end they've just annou...

After all the cuts, something (quite) positive: a new scheme from the BA. The Mid Career Fellowship Scheme looks, on first view, a bit like ...

Along with the Small Grants and Conference funding , the BA will axe their Research Development Awards (BARDAs) . I guess I shouldn't...

Sigh. Another day, another bad news story. This time it's the British Academy, which is going to drop its popular Small Grants scheme an...

After two weeks away from my desk, I'm beginning to plough through my emails and try to get to grips with my job again. One of the stran...

The British Academy President, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, sent out a letter last week that covered various matters, including the prospect ...

I've just heard that the success rate for the last round of the British Academy Small Grants was 35%. Eek! A couple of years ago this wa...

Notes and slides are available from the first Grants Factory 2010 Masterclass, given by Prof Peter Taylor Gooby , and focused on how applic...

The British Academy has posted its response to HEFCE's REF proposals . They're generally supportive of the process and the form of...