Research Support and Funding

**Paused until further notice**

A funding call for all staff and postgraduate researchers at Newcastle University.

Please note that there will be two calls (and deadlines) that span the academic year 2024-2025.

These awards aim to support emerging ideas that are collaborative and interdisciplinary in scope. We particularly encourage high-risk ideas that challenge existing horizons. The funding available supports a wide range of research-based activities within this remit.

We invite applications from staff and PGRs from all Faculties. Applications from PGRs must include a named member of academic staff/supervisor who will act as project approver.

Please note, if your application is successful, you will have 12 months to use the funds allocated in support of your project and in-line with your application.

More information coming soon. 

Now open: Research Institutes Fund 2023-24 (formerly the Pioneer Awards)

A funding call for staff and PGRs - The Research Institutes Fund

Please note that there are two calls (and deadlines) that span the academic year 23-2024.

These Awards offer a uniquely supportive environment where collaborative and interdisciplinary projects are specifically encouraged. They offer funding for research projects (including networking and engagement activities).

We invite applications from staff and PGRs from all Faculties. Applications from PGRs must include a named member of academic staff/supervisor who will act as project approver.

Please note, if your application is successful, you will have 12 months to use the funds allocated in support of your project and in-line with your application.

The HaSS Faculty’s Research Institutes (Creative Arts Practice, Humanities and Social Science) invite applications to the Pioneer Awards 22-2023. 

Please note that there are two calls (and deadlines) that span the academic year 22-2023.

These Awards offer a uniquely supportive environment where collaborative and interdisciplinary projects are specifically encouraged. They offer funding for research projects (including networking and engagement activities).

We invite applications from staff and PGRs from all Faculties. Applications from PGRs must include a named member of academic staff/supervisor who will act as project mentor/approver.

Please note, if your application is successful, you will have 12 months to use the funds allocated in support of your project and in-line with your application.

Pioneer Awards More Information 2022

Pioneer Awards Application Form 2022 

The HaSS Faculty’s Research Institutes (Creative Arts Practice, Humanities and Social Science) invite applications to the Pioneer Awards 21-2022. 

Please note that there are three calls (and deadlines) that span the academic year 21-2022.

These Awards offer a uniquely supportive environment where collaborative and interdisciplinary projects are specifically encouraged. They offer funding for research projects (including networking and engagement activities).

We invite applications from staff and PGRs from all Faculties. Applications from PGRs must include a named member of academic staff/supervisor who will act as project mentor/approver.

Please note, if your application is successful, you will have 12 months to use the funds allocated in support of your project and in-line with your application.

Pioneer Awards More Information 

Pioneer Awards Application Form 

How do borders sound? How can sound help us articulate the existence of borders that normally remain distant or imperceptible to our senses? How can sound place us in a position from which borders – cultural, political, cross-generational and between species - can be scrutinized?

We are seeking fixed media pieces – e.g. soundscape compositions, soundwalks, field recordings - that critically and creatively address these questions.

We will select 4 projects/proposals which will be presented during the Walking Festival of Sound between April 5-25 on the event's website and through other festival channels. Authors of each selected project will receive a honorarium of 100Eur.

Send your contributions or proposals to walkingfestivalofsound@gmail.com by March 8. Your piece should last no longer than 10 minutes. Submissions should include:

• a short description of your project and how it addresses the subject in questions, max. 300 words,
• a sample or the final piece if possible, a short bio,
• an image representing your work

We will get back to the authors of the selected projects by March 15.

Walking Festival of Sound is a transdisciplinary, nomadic event exploring the role of walking through and listening to our everyday surroundings. It combines a number of free events including walking performances, walking seminars, listening sessions, and artist talks which take place in diverse offline and online spaces. Walking Festival of Sound facilitates a meeting point for an international network of practitioners and researchers interested in sound and walking in an expanded context. Through diverse events we explore how walking and listening practices can augment and challenge the way we perceive, mediate, navigate through, and care for our shared environments. In 2019 the festival takes place in two cities, Stockholm and Newcastle. In 2021, the festival moves to Krakow and Edinburgh. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, the events will primarily take place online.

Walking Festival of Sound

On Twitter @walkingsound

CALL CLOSED

The Institutes Challenge Labs funding call is open to undergraduate, postgraduate students and postgraduate researchers registered at Newcastle University.

Call for Entries 

Application Deadline: Mon 24th June 2019, 5pm 

• Open to all current Newcastle University students (UG/PGT/PGR) 
• Designed to support interdisciplinary approaches to particular research ‘challenges’ in or with the arts, humanities or social sciences - chosen by you; 

• £2-3k available to develop a project over a three-week period in late summer 2019; 
• Award may be used to pay yourselves (£200 per week per student) and/or for other equipment or activities; 
• Applications invited from individuals or small groups. 

• Applicants and their mentors must be available to attend the Challenge Labs 2019 Workshop - Wed 17th July 2019, 1-4pm.

Challenge Labs 2019 is designed to support Newcastle University students to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects within the arts, humanities or social sciences, or between these subjects and other subject areas in the University.

The HaSS Faculty’s three Research Institutes: Humanities | Social Science | Creative Arts Practice invite you to devise a specific interdisciplinary research ‘challenge’. These might relate to ‘real-world’ or ‘societal’ issues (like illiteracy, global warming, or ‘fake news’) or they could be purely academic. They should be ‘research-worthy’ problems, requiring group working and an approach that draws on methods and expertise derived from a number of disciplines. These subjects must include one or more arts, humanities or social science disciplines, but need not be limited to these. We welcome applications from students working across Faculties.

Application Process 

Download the application form Challenge Lab Application Form 2019.  Application deadline: 5pm, Monday June 24th 2019

Please email completed applications to Jill Moffat (jill.moffat@ncl.ac.uk)

Application deadline: 5pm, Monday 24th June 2019. Submissions received after this time will not be considered. Applicants will receive an email confirming receipt of application. 

Challenge Labs 2019 Timetable

 Mon 24th June 2019 5pm Application deadline 

Fri 5th July 2019 5pm All applicants notified of panel’s decision 

Wed 17th July 2019 1-4pm Challenge Labs workshop 

Wed 24th July 2019 5pm Refined applications submitted – if required 

Wed 31st July 2019 5pm Final decisions communicated 

August-Sept 2019 Selected projects underway (3 week duration) 

Nov or Dec 2019 Challenge Labs 2019 Showcase – details tbc 

CALL CLOSED

Applications deadline:  Friday 4 May 2018, 5pm. Email only.

The Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Newcastle Law School invite applications to create a new artwork on the theme of ‘Equality and Diversity’. The work will become a key feature in the Law School. It will be realised on or attached to a window on the main staircase. Proposals which meet these requirements are welcome. The aim is to create an inspiring and thought-provoking work on the themes of Equality and Diversity in the Law.

Newcastle Law School

Law has been taught at Newcastle upon Tyne since 1923, where it was taught at Armstrong College part of the federal University of Durham. From 1923 to 1994, there was a Faculty of Law, first at the federal University of Durham then at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1963. The School has a single undergraduate degree, the LL.B., though there are options to extend study by adding a year abroad. A suite of master degrees is offered and there is an active postgraduate research community. The school has been at the present site for forty years with the subject library located in the building (Windsor Terrace). There are over forty full time members of staff and almost eight hundred students.

THEME: Equality and Diversity in the Law

Newcastle Law School is committed to promoting Equality and Diversity within the School, the wider University and in the Law professions.

Two Inspirational Women of the Law events have been held (2015 and 2017) to celebrate and promote the achievements of women. Full details are available on our web site at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/engagement/women/  The school has around 20 photographs taken as part of these events that are currently being curated to hang on the main staircase in the Law School.

The School is also in the final stages of completing a departmental submission for Athena Swan accreditation.

We would like to commission an artwork to be installed on the window of the main staircase to complement the Inspirational Women portraits and to promote Equality and Diversity in the Law.

A briefing on law and the importance we place on Equality and Diversity will accompany a visit to the site. Further access and follow up questions and answers will be made available.

There will be one single award of £750 to include all materials and any fee. Applications are invited from Newcastle University students (UG or PG) only. Collaborations between students and disciplines are welcome.

The Brief

• All applicants must attend the project briefing on Friday 20 April at 2 pm, (meet outside Newcastle Law School) when applicants will be shown the proposed space for the work and will be able to ask questions about the commission.
• The work must address the theme of Equality and Diversity in the Law as outlined above and must be suitable for public display in an academic school context.
• The current colour of the main wall (blue) cannot be changed and overall the work must complement its surroundings.
• The proposed work must be realisable within the grant awarded. No additional funding is available.

Application Process

Applicants are asked to submit:

• A proposal outlining their project (no more than two sides of A4, 11pt font, margins 2cm) including details of the concept, approach to be taken and indicative timescale.
• Supportive visual material (where appropriate) up to two sides of A4
• A detailed budget
• A CV (no more than 2 pages) and select examples of previous work (no more than 2 pages).
• A reference from a member of staff in your School.

All applications should be emailed to: creativeartsinstitute@ncl.ac.uk before 5 pm on Friday 4 May 2018.

Selection Process

All applications will be judged by an invited panel including staff and students from Newcastle Law School and representatives from Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice, and relevant subject areas (e.g. Fine Art).

A small steering group will be established by the Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Newcastle Law School to monitor and support the progress of the commissioned project.

Timescale

Call opens: Monday 19 March 2018

Project briefing for applicants: Friday 20 April, 2 pm Location: Newcastle Law School.

Book your place at the briefing session https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=1678273

Application deadline: by 5 pm Friday 4 May 2018 by email only.

Successful applicants notified: w/c 14 May 2018

Project start: ASAP after notification

Work to be installed by: August 2018. Details TBC. (NB: all payments must be made by mid-July 2018)

Contacts

For more information email creativeartsinstitute@ncl.ac.uk Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice.

Ref: Institute Call 2017

This award is now closed.

These awards are available for staff and students (undergraduate and postgraduate) at the University.

Details and application form

Download  The Creative Arts Practice Awards 2017 and the The Creative Arts Practice Awards Application Form 2017.

Applicant Briefing is on Wednesday 10th May 2017 at 13:00-14.00

Venue: Room 1.13, Claremont Tower

Deadline

Friday 19th May 2017 at 17.00.

More information from creativeartsinstitute@ncl.ac.uk.

Practice-led research collaborations with colleagues in FMS are also being invited via this call:

https://internal.ncl.ac.uk/medical/engagement/funding/

This is now closed

Inviting proposals for a wall-based piece on the theme of the Law Library/Books

Applications deadline:  Friday March 24th 2017, 5pm. Email only.

The Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Newcastle Law School invite applications to create a new artwork on the theme of ‘Law Library/Books’. The work will become a key permanent feature of the Law School’s library. It will be realised on or attached to a wall within the law library. Proposals which meet these requirements are welcome. The aim is to create an inspiring and thought-provoking work that will enhance the Law Library as a learning environment.

Newcastle Law School

Law has been taught at Newcastle upon Tyne since 1923, where it was taught at Armstrong College part of the federal University of Durham. From 1923 to 1994, there was a Faculty of Law, first at the federal University of Durham then at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1963. The School has a single undergraduate degree, the LL.B., though there are options to extend study by adding a year abroad. A suite of master degrees is offered and there is an active postgraduate research community. The school has been at the present site for forty years with the subject library actually located in the building (Windsor Terrace). There are over forty full time members of staff and almost eight hundred students.

THEME: Law Library

The wall space for this commission is within the Law School Library and will mark its fortieth anniversary (August 2017). Accordingly the theme for this work will be law books, texts, or the law library more generally. We are looking for works that represent or otherwise encapsulate the spirit and fundamental importance of books and our library. Law is a documentation driven discipline in this country and students must read extensively, often hundreds of pages a week. This is particularly so for the core subjects. The authorities for decisions in law is often derived from cases (the  judgments are published in law reports – more books) and the works of seminal writers on the law. Today, like most disciplines, a lot of the material is available online in databases the university subscribes to so students access the library both physically and virtually. The library, however, remains at the heart of the law school.

To mark the fortieth anniversary of the law library, we would like to commission something which celebrates books, the library and the written word in law. We can provide access to whatever documentation is required and are flexible as to whether the work is pictorial, abstract, text based or other. The space is in an area used by students for study. The entire wall is available, subject to the budgetary constraints, though the work must be relatively flat on the wall (it can of course be framed and attached to the wall) as people walk by regularly. There must be no health and safety issues and the work should last and not degrade rapidly.

A briefing on law and the importance of the library and books will accompany a visit to the site. Further access and follow up questions and answers will be made available.

There will be one single award of £1000 to include materials and any fee. Applications are invited from Newcastle University students (UG or PG) only. Collaborations between students and disciplines are welcome.

The Brief

• All applicants must attend the project briefing Tuesday 14th March 1.15pm, meet outside the Law Library, Newcastle Law School) when applicants will be shown the proposed space for the work and will be able to ask questions about the commission.
• The work must address the theme of Law Library/Books as outlined above and must be suitable for public display in a library context.
• The current colour of the main wall (red) can be changed but overall the work must complement its surroundings in the Library
• The proposed work must be realisable within the grant awarded. No additional funding is available.

Application Process

Applicants are asked to submit:

• A proposal outlining their project (no more than two sides of A4, 11pt font, margins 2cm) including details of the concept, approach to be taken and indicative timescale.
• Supportive visual material (where appropriate) up to two sides of A4
• A detailed budget
• A CV (no more than 2 pages) and select examples of previous work (no more than 2 pages).
• A reference from a member of staff in your School.

All applications should be emailed to: Melanie.Robson@ncl.ac.uk before 5pm on 24th March 2017

Selection Process

All applications will be judged by an invited panel including staff and students from Newcastle Law School and representatives from Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice, and relevant subject areas (e.g. Fine Art, Creative Writing, Digital Cultures).

A small steering group will be established by the Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Newcastle Law School to monitor and support the progress of the commissioned project.

Timescale

Call opens: 6th March 2017

Project briefing for applicants: 14th March 2017 1.15pm, Location: Law Library.

Book your place at the briefing session http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=12227

Application deadline: 24th March 2017 5pm by email only.

Successful applicants notified: w/c 24th April 2017

Project start: Asap after notification

Work to be installed by: August 2017. Details TBC. (all payments must be made by mid-July)

Ref: NICAP Call 2016-17

This award is now closed.

These awards are available for staff and students (undergraduate and postgraduate) at the University.

Details and application form

Download Creative Arts Practice Awards details (PDF: 84KB) and the (Word: 92 KB).

Applicant Briefing is on Tuesday 26 April 2016 at 13:00-14.00. It'll be held in Room G20, Devonshire Building.

Deadline

Monday 9 May 2016 at 09.00.

More information from Mel Whewell.

Ref: FMS Call 2016

This award is now closed.

The Faculty of Medical Sciences' EngageFMS programme and the Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice are offering these awards.

They're available for staff and postgraduate students at the University.

Details and application form

Download Engage FMS Award details (PDF: 91 KB) and the Engage FMS Award application form (Word: 87 KB).

Applicant Briefing is on Wednesday 27 April 2016 at 12.00-13.00. It'll be held in the Great Gable Meeting Room, CARU, Health Innovation Neighbourhood.

Deadline

Monday 9 May 2016 at 09.00.

More information from Mel Whewell or Helen Atkinson.