Academic Development and Practice Unit
Funding
Funding
Funding for education development is available from a variety of sources. There are sources internal to the University and external. You will find funding opportunities to fund your development as an individual and to support specific projects. The staff of the ADPU have had success in winning external funding and would be more than willing to give you guidance both in terms of places to look and in putting together an application.External Funding
SEDA
SEDA is currently inviting bids for it's Research and Development Small Grants.
For further information see: http://www.seda.ac.uk/research.html?p=7_1
The closing date is Friday 15th January 2010.
Higher Education Academy
Below you will find links to the latest funding (as at October 2009) from across the Higher Education Sector which we hope will be of interest to you.
1) Call for Syntheses - Enhancing Learning and Teaching through the use of Technology: Evidence-based Practice
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/elt_syntheses_oct09
2) Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series 2010: Calls for expressions of interest
- Assessment and Feedback
- Employability and Employee Feedback
- Professional Learning and Teaching Practice
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/evidencebasedpracticeseminarsOct2010
3) Art Design Media Subject Centre Project Proposals 2010/11
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Student Engagement
- Quality Enhancement and Student Assessment
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/adm_projects_nov09
4) History Teaching Development Grants
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/historytdgoct2009
5) Academy Scotland Travel Fund
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/aboutus/scotland/events/travel_fund
6) ESCalate Education Subject Centre - Themed funding: Teacher Educators for the 21st Century
http://escalate.ac.uk/grants/type?ID=8
7) ESCalate Education Subject Centre - Themed funding: Student Well-being
http://escalate.ac.uk/grants/type?ID=9
8) Engineering Mini-Projects
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/us/fundopps/miniprojects.asp
9) Psychology Mini-Projects
http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/s.php?p=93
10) Marketing Education - Teaching and Learning Grants 2009/10
Subject Centre for Business Management, Accountancy and Finance Marketing Education SIG / Academy of Marketing
http://www.academyofmarketing.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=14