Small Grants and Writing Retreats (This award has finished)
The Small Grant offers seed-corn funding that allows a team of scholars, across disciplines and countries, to form around a particular research topic and to develop new work that integrate different disciplines and accounts of lived experience of mental disorder – work that is relevant to the theme of Wellcome Award Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology. The aim is to enable a group of, for example, researchers, clinicians, academics in the humanities and experts by experience to pursue substantial competitive research leading to publication and/or work towards major grant applications.
There will be two Small Research Grants of £10,000 each, and two Virtual Writing Retreats supported by the Project Team.
For example, the Small Grant could cover a six-month small scale project of an interdisciplinary, international Group the running of which requires a part-time Research Assistant who could, for instance, offer support for short-term data collection or for the undertaking of fieldwork or of literature review that is needed for the purposes of the Group’s project.
Virtual Writing Retreats
The Small Grant holders will be offered a Writing Retreat that would enable effective follow-up from the Small Grants, and would provide dedicated time for the Group to focus on: either i). completing a significant output (i.e. major paper(s)); or ii). develop and write an application for substantial follow-up funding.
The Virtual Writing Retreats will facilitate engagement across internationally located teams, academics at different career levels and those with parenting/caring responsibilities. The Retreats will receive operational support from the Project Team as well as input and direction from the Project Leaders.
The Application Process
Applicants are required to submit:
- a 1500-word proposal or a 5-minute video that explain what the goals of the proposed project are and how they will be pursued, the different disciplines and perspectives that the project will bring together, what the group’s focus will be in addressing renewing phenomenological psychopathology, and what the expected outputs would be; please include an indicative breakdown of approximative/expected costs. (References and the Bibliography are not included in the 1500 words, but Bibliography should not be longer than one page.)
- a 100-word biography (if you are submitting as a team a biography would be required for each member).
- a brief one/two-page CV of one named Principal Applicant and of the other co-applicants.
Please send us all application materials as one pdf document.
Submissions should be sent to phenompsych@contacts.bham.ac.uk
The deadline for applications is the 1st of April 2023 (midnight UK).
Applications will be reviewed by members of the Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology team and our international advisory board. While we will notify all applicants of the outcome of their submission, we will not supply individual feedback on unsuccessful applications.
Eligibility
You must hold a PhD in a relevant field, or have equivalent research or work experience, or have relevant lived experience.
An important aspect of this project is to diversify the field of Phenomenological Psychopathology. We encourage applications from the widest range of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to maximise innovation in the field. We are particularly keen to receive submissions from female applicants, gender diverse applicants, early career researchers, those with lived experience of mental health difficulties, and researchers from the global south/non-WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) countries.
Accessibility
We will be happy to provide adjustments to ensure that people from the widest range of backgrounds can participate fully in the selection process. If you need an adjustment when accessing the application form, or for any other part of the application process, please contact us and we will do our best to accommodate you. If you have any queries, we warmly encourage you to contact us at phenompsych@contacts.bham.ac.uk