Dear WAN members,
We are excited to launch the WAN Small Grant Funding Scheme for 2024. WAN project funds are designed to support research-based activities that meet WAN broad aims in supporting equality for women, promoting their careers, and highlighting gender-based issues that affect women. WAN members are welcome to apply for grant of up to £500 for relevant projects.
Conditions of funding:
- The scheme is only open to WAN members.
- Every funded project must be completed by the end of July 2024*.
- Every project must lead to demonstrable outcomes/deliverables such as papers, book proposals, Research Blogs, pilot studies leading to bigger grants etc.
- You must agree to present outcomes to WAN members and produce a blog post as a condition of funding.
- The project must relate to women’s equality or gender-based issues that affect women.
The application form can be accessed via the WAN Brightspace page. The deadline for this funding application is 16th February 2024. Successful applicants will be informed by 1st March 2024. Please forward your completed Application Form to Dr Chloe Casey: ccasey@bournemouth.ac.uk. Please contact Chloe if you have any queries about the application process.











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