Teaching Development Grants

The Higher Education Academy is offering bid-based development grant funding to stimulate evidence-based research and encourage innovations in learning and teaching that have the potential for sector-wide impact.

Over the next year there will be a total of £1.5 million of funding available for individual grants, departmental grants and collaborative grants.

Phase One

The first phase begins with an open call for individual grant scheme bids. There is a total of £315,000 available in this phase with a maximum of £7,000 per project.

£28,000 is ring fenced for new academic staff (anyone with less than five years experience in a full time permanent post). A further £28,000 is ring fenced for HEA Fellows who have never had a teaching development grant before.
 
Bids are invited from anyone responsible for the student learning experience who is working in higher education institutions in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or England that subscribe to the Higher Education Academy. The themes for this call are:

- internationalisation

- employability.

Closing date for phase one bids is 15 June 2011.

For full details, including how to apply, visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding

Open Access Focus Groups 

David Jennings, Nicky Ferguson, and Seb Schmoller have been commissioned at short notice by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Research Communications - http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/ - to run some focus groups for chemists and economists about Open Access. (Open Access, in this context is taken to mean making scholarly research openly available on an institutional or subject repository, or through an Open Access journal.) 

Its purpose is to: 
#canvass interest in participating in one of three three-hour focus groups to be held in different parts of England between 18 May and 3 June;
# enable a suitably mix of participants to be identified.

For those willing to assist with this work by taking part in a focus group we will let you know by email whether or not we need your involvement, and what the arrangements are during Friday 13 May. CRC will cover participants' travel and reasonable out of pocket expenses for taking part. It would be very helpful if you would complete this form by close of business on Wednesday 11 May. 

For more information and to register your interest, visit http://goo.gl/F5WvA