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The Royal Society invites applications for its research professorships. These provide long-term support to scientists and enables them to be relieved from teaching and administration duties in order to focus on research. Two types of professorships are available:

•five royal society professorships supporting research in any of the natural and applied sciences, including medical science, engineering and interdisciplinary research;

•one EP Abraham research professorship supporting research specifically in biological and medical sciences.

Applicants may be of any nationality and applications from scientists currently residing outside the UK are particularly welcomed. Awards must be held at a UK university or non-profit research institute.

Professorships are tenable for up to 10 years and they provide salary costs of £82,000 per year, research expenses of up to £100,000 a year, and start-up costs of up to £200,000 for the first year and £100,000 for the second year. Royal society professorships are funded at 80 per cent of full economic cost and EP Abraham professorship is funded at 100 per cent of full economic cost.

Royal Astronomical Society, GB

This enables experts to visit institutions in developing countries to stimulate the development of astronomy. Grants of up to £1,000 are available to primarily cover travel costs to and from the host institutions. Host institutions are required to cover local expenses and arrange for accommodation.

No deadline - lasts as long as funds are available

Dr David Armstrong, Dr Elizabeth Stanway, and Dr Dimitri Veras

(Department of Physics, 91¸£Àû, UK)

The British Academy is inviting proposals from UK-based researchers across all disciplines within the social sciences and humanities to develop international interdisciplinary research projects with development impact, in collaboration with colleagues from the natural, engineering and/or medical sciences. The Academy is keen to support projects which engage with questions concerning the relationship between expertise, public understanding and policy delivery.
 
Aims
The purpose of each project will be to develop new ideas and methods to bear on existing international challenges and to deliver policy-relevant outputs which could potentially improve the welfare of people in developing countries. Proposals that creatively tackle cultural, public and/or policy controversies, or explore how such controversies have been understood and responded to in the past, would be particularly welcome. Such controversies might include, but need not be limited to, changing climate, movements across borders, socio-biological problems, artificial intelligence, medical humanities, people and infrastructures, and responses to or understanding of diseases and pathogens.
 
Eligibility requirements
The lead applicant must be based at a UK university or research institute, and be of postdoctoral or above status (or have equivalent research experience). International co-applicants, and in particular co-applicants from OECD DAC countries, are strongly encouraged.
 
Value and Duration
Awards are of one-year in duration and are available for up to £50,000. Funding can be used to support research and/or clerical assistance; research expenses and consumables; travel and subsistence; and networking, meeting and conference costs. Awards are not funded on a full economic costs basis, with contributions to overheads an ineligible cost.