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The British Council, under the Newton Fund, invites applications for its researcher links workshop grants for the UK, China and the Philippines. These provide financial support to bring together bilateral cohort of early career researchers from the UK, China and the Philippines to take part in workshops, in order to make international connections that can improve the quality of their research. All workshops will have the following three overarching objectives:
•support international development-relevant research;
•contribute to capacity building of early career researchers;
•establish new research links or significantly develop existing links, with the potential for longer term sustainability.
Proposals may be in any discipline or multidisciplinary, but the focus is on the following topics: agriculture, climate and environment, sustainable energy, education research for development, health, water and sanitation, food and nutrition, demographic change and migration, rural and urban development, infrastructure, humanitarian disasters and emergencies, resilient communities, governance, and development-relevant data and administration.
Each proposal must have one principal applicant from the UK and one from the partner country, who are leading or established researchers. UK PAs must be permanent employees of a UK HEI or a non-profit research organisation. Each proposal must also identify up to four leading researchers to act as mentors, two from each country. Workshop participants must be early-career researchers within 10 years of obtaining their PhD, or have similar experience, and be based in the UK or the partner country. Participants from for-profit organisations are not eligible to receive any funding. Workshops must take place in the partnering country and be held in English.
Funding covers travel, subsistence, event costs per day and additional workshop costs for up to 40 participants for a three- to five-day workshop.