Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Standard Research Grant (Round Five)

17 July 2024

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) seeks to promote and support high quality arts and humanities research through a variety of funding opportunities across its schemes from postgraduate studentships to large scale collaborative research grants, specialist training schemes to strategic programmes.

The AHRC Standard Research Grant is now open. Apply for this funding to support your well-defined collaborative research project in the arts and humanities.

Application Deadlines: 24 September 2024

Fund: The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be between £300,000 and £1.5 million. AHRC will fund 80% of the FEC.

Research Area: Arts and Humanities

Duration: Max. 5 years

Eligibility:

  • You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.
  • Your application must include a project lead and at least one project co-lead. Each team member must contribute to:
    • the development of the research grant application
    • project leadership and management
    • joint publication of authored research

Project leads

  • Project leads must be actively engaged in postdoctoral research and be of postdoctoral standing. This means you must have a doctorate or can demonstrate in your application that you have equivalent research experience or training.
    • Project leads must be either:
      • employed by the research organisation submitting the application
      • have an existing written formal arrangement with the research organisation confirming that you will be able to carry out the research as if you were an employee
      • scheduled to move to the research organisation before the proposed start date of the application

Project co-leads

  • Project co-leads are supported by this funding opportunity and includes international co-leads as per the guidance below.
    • AHRC encourages international researchers to participate as project co-leads. See sections two and three of the AHRC Research Funding Guide for full details on eligibility of researchers, organisations, and costs.

For more information on eligibility, please read the AHRC Research Funding Guide.

How to Apply?

A lead research organisation can submit an application to UKRI via the new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service. Please ensure that a lead organisation is registered.

The project lead is responsible for completing the application process on the Funding Service, but AHRC expects all team members and project partners to contribute to the application.

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