Funding

Current Funding Opportunities

Internal funding at Warwick

Teaching Development Fund

The University sets aside £30-40k per academic year for teaching development. The fund aims to support developments and excellence in learning and teaching, with the emphasis being on innovation in curriculum development and an underpinning of the goals and targets set out in the University's Learning and Teaching Strategy.
Contact: Graham Lewis, CAP

Academic Staff Development Fund

Academic staff may apply to this central fund to attend courses, seminars or workshops with the aim of developing research, teaching or other aspects of academic practice. Such events may include: making effective research grant or fellowship applications, project management, managing a research team.

New Academic Development Fund. Funding for 15 new academic posts (8 in 02/03 and a further 7 in 03/04) is available for departments to bid to Estimates and Grants Committee, to reward success in RAE 2001, to invest for future RAE and expand capacity to increase research volume, through growing research income and postgraduate research student numbers.
Contact: Paul Blackmore, CAP

Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund

The University is awarded TQEF from HEFCE for implementing and supporting the Learning and Teaching Strategy. Each year, the University reports to HEFCE about the expenditure of the TQEF to ensure the funds are being spent on supporting the Strategy's goals. The second phase of Warwick's Learning and Teaching strategy, for the period 2002-2005, has generated funding of £492,600. It will permit further expansion of accredited provision for learning and teaching and of the skills programme, together with developments in the fields of evaluation and research-based learning.
Contact: Paul Blackmore, CAP

External Funding

Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

The FDTL invites bids from HEIs that demonstrate high quality in their educational provision. Projects are engaged in a wide range of different activities aimed at stimulating developments in teaching and learning to encourage the dissemination of good practice across the higher education sector. There have been three previous phases of FDTL funding and phase 4 successful bids have just been announced.

Phase 5 FDTL

The following subject areas have undergone a subject review and will be applicable for funding within the FDTL programme in approximately Autumn 2004. The circular with invitations to bid, will be circulated in Autumn 2003. You may download new subject overview reports from the following website: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/revreps/subjrev/overviews.htm

Contact: Jay Dempster, CAP

• Archaeology
• Business and Management
• Celtic Studies
• Classics and Ancient History
• Economics
• Education
• Hospitality, Leisure, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
• Librarianship and Information Management
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Theology and Religious Studies

For background information, see HEFCE Circular 01/60 and view in points 15-24 of the main report, regarding the eligibility for support for FDTL Phase 5 projects.

Learning and Teaching Support Network

The LTSN Subject Centres and the Generic Centre can provide funding for special projects. View www.ltsn.ac.uk for further information.
Contact: Jay Dempster, CAP

Research bodies

The research funding bodies support teaching and learning development work. Current funding opportunities for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which funds educational development research projects can be found on the ESRC research funding page. The Arts and Humanities Research Board also offers small grants in the creative and performing arts resource enhancement schemes: see AHRB Research awards.

European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development

FP6 offers large scale funding for high quality research and international co-operation focusing on integrated projects that bring together networks of excellence in European countries. The EC's research information server CORDIS: Community Research Information Service provides a facility for searching across all EU research programmes and areas of funding, including FP6.
Contact Research Support Services