You should ensure you are aware of and comply with any internal institutional deadlines that may be in place.
Applying using Je-S
You must apply using the Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system.
We recommend you start your application early. You can save completed details in Je-S at any time and return to continue your application later.
When applying, select ‘new document’ then:
- council: AHRC
- document type: Standard proposal
- scheme: Research networking
- call/type/mode: Research Networking Highlight – Arts and Humanities Perspectives: Disability Inclusive Sustainable Global Development 22 Sept 2022.
Once you have completed your application, make sure you ‘submit document’.
You can find advice on completing your application in the Je-S handbook.
Your host organisation will also be able to provide advice and guidance on completing your application.
AHRC must receive your application by 22 September 2022 at 16:00.
You will not be able to apply after this time. Please leave enough time for your proposal to pass through your organisation’s Je-S submission route before this date.
Proposals will need to include a section in the case for support outlining how you will address issues of accessibility and disability-inclusive ways of working and participatory practices, as well as intersecting issues of gender, rights, diversity and inequalities.
Read the AHRC research funding guide (pages 22 to 26) for further details on applying.
Attachments
As well as the Je-S application form, the following documents outlined below must be submitted, unless it is indicated they are optional.
General guidance on attachments is provided in AHRC’s research funding guide. Any guidance specific to this funding opportunity is provided below and takes precedence.
You should attach your documents as PDFs to avoid errors. They should be completed in single-spaced Arial 11 font or similar-sized sans serif typeface.
Case for support
This is mandatory and must be no more than six sides of A4.
You should use the following section headings for the narrative:
- rationale and research context
- aims and objectives
- timetable of activities
- key participants
- inclusion and accessibility
- management and coordination, including equitable international working
- ethical and safeguarding issues (and other issues such as conflict sensitivity where applicable)
- outputs, dissemination and impact.
The case for support attachment must give details of:
- the aims and objectives
- the timetable for any proposed activities, proposed participants and key speakers
- plans for management and coordination, including the membership of any proposed advisory group or steering committee.
It should also clearly outline the rationale for the activities, your approach and the research context by explaining:
- the central theme of the proposed activity and how this relates to the themes in this funding opportunity
- why it is important that this theme is explored
- what is innovative about the network
- how your research questions will be addressed
- how the network will support participatory or co-researched approaches which forefront the voices, ideas and experiences of persons with disabilities
- how international collaboration and shared learning will add value to the proposed activities
- how the proposed activities will create genuine interaction across boundaries and advance understanding
- how the network will address questions of equitable partnership working, ethics, risk, equalities and inclusion, safeguarding, conflict sensitivities and other related issues.
Justification of resources
This is mandatory and must be no more than two sides of A4.
All costs must be justified in this attachment.
CVs
This is mandatory. Each CV must be no more than two sides of A4.
You must provide a CV for each named applicant.
List of publications
This is mandatory and must be no more than one side of A4.
Project partner letter of support
This is only mandatory if you have named project partners in your proposal.
This must be no more than two sides of A4 on headed paper, signed and dated.
See section four on the application guidance page of the AHRC research funding guide for further details of what constitutes a project partner.
International co-investigator Head of Department statement
This is only mandatory if an international co-investigator is named in the proposal.
This must be no more than two sides of A4 on headed paper, signed and dated.
Visual evidence
This is optional. It must be no more than one side of A4.
Work plan
This is optional. It must be no more than one side of A4.
Cost information
You must itemise all costs separately within the budget breakdown section of the application, and clearly indicate the costs of international collaboration.
In addition, all costs must be justified in the ‘justification of resources’ attachment.
International co-investigators
International co-investigators are allowed in line with standard AHRC international co-investigators policy.
Given the international focus of this funding opportunity and the emphasis on equitable international partnership working, the normal 30% cap on international co-investigator costs (paid at 100% full economic cost) may be exceeded. Where a strong case is made in the proposal for this, it can be up to a maximum of up to 50% of total grant costs.
How to report overseas costs
To enable UKRI to meet reporting requirements, all overseas costs incurred by non-UK organisations must be entered into the ‘other directly incurred costs’ using the following format.
In the description box, you should enter ‘organisation, country, cost category, cost description’.
The cost categories for this are:
- staff
- other directly incurred costs
- indirect costs
- travel and subsistence
- equipment.
For example:
- ‘University of Nairobi, Kenya, staff, 1 x PDRA’
- ‘University of Nairobi, Kenya, travel and subsistence, 4 x flights’
- ‘University of Nairobi, Kenya, other directly incurred costs, 5 x workshops including catering and accommodation’
- ‘University of Nairobi, Equipment, name of equipment’.
All costs incurred by the international co-investigator, including salary costs, will need to be listed as ‘exceptions’ under the ‘other directly incurred costs’ heading, and entered using the naming format detailed above. For example, ‘University of Nairobi, Kenya, staff, 1 x international co-investigator’.
