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The British Academy have confirmed that they are now inviting applications for the below schemes in 2014-2015. If you wish to apply for these schemes, please do ensure that you contact the Research & Knowledge Exchange Office (R&KEO) as soon as possible – BU’s internal deadlines have been added to the below information.

Please note: The British Academy have asked us to inform you that the latest time at which applications will be accepted from both applications and approvers via eGAP will now be 5pm on the relevant deadline date (rather than midnight, as was previously the case).

 Please see below the timetables for 2014-2014 funding schemes:

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Application forms, Outline Stage: available from  27 August 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 2 October 2014
• Applicant deadline, Outline Stage: 8 October 2014
• Result of Outline Stage announced: 21 January 2015
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 19 February 2015
  
• Application deadline, Second Stage: 25 February 2015
• Final results confirmed: May 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 September 2015 and not later than 1 January 2016

 Mid-Career Fellowships

• Application forms, Outline Stage: available from  13 August 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 11 September 2014
  
• Applicant deadline, Outline Stage: 17 September 2014
• Result of Outline Stage announced: 17 December 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 15 January 2015
  
• Application deadline, Second Stage: 21 January 2015
• Final results confirmed: March 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 September 2015 and not later than 1 January 2016

 BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

2014-15 Round (Round 1)

• Application forms: available from  3 September 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 9 October 2014
  
• Applicant deadline: 15 October 2014
• Final Results confirmed: March 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 April 2015 and not later than 31 August 2015

2015 Round (Round 2)

• Application forms: available from  1 April 2015
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 30 April 2015
  
• Applicant deadline: 6 May 2015
• Final Results confirmed: July 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 September 2015 and not later than 31 March 2016

Skills Acquisition Awards

• Application forms: available from  3 September 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 23 October 2014
  
• Applicant deadline: 29 October 2014
• Final Results confirmed: March 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 September 2015 and not later than 1 April 2016

BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

• Application forms: available from  15 October 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 13 November 2014
  
• Applicant deadline: 19 November 2014
• Final Results confirmed: March 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 September 2015 and not later than 1 January 2016

Neil Ker Memorial Fund Grants

• Application forms: available from  22 October 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 30 November 2014
  
• Applicant deadline: 3 December 2014
• Final Results confirmed: March 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 April 2015 and not later than 31 December 2015

Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund Grants

• Application forms: available from  22 October 2014
• BU internal deadline to RKEO – 30 November 2014
  
• Applicant deadline: 3 December 2014
• Final Results confirmed: March 2015
• Awards available for starting date: Not earlier than 1 April 2015 and not later than 31 December 2015

You can set up your own personalised alerts on ResearchProfessional. If you need help setting these up, just ask your School’s RKE Officer in RKE Operations or see the recent post on this topic, which includes forthcoming training dates up to November 2014.

If thinking of applying, why not add notification of your interest on ResearchProfessional’s record of the bid so that BU colleagues can see your intention to bid and contact you to collaborate.