AHRC responsive mode: catalyst awards
Support for researchers developing ambitious or complex AHRC projects.
Catalyst awards support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project. They support the development of researchers and their research ideas.
Funding is available for teams, networks and solo researchers. The project lead and any project co-leads must be employed and supported by an eligible organisation for at least the duration of the UKRI support.
Projects can …
Projects can be single discipline, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary. The majority of the disciplinary focus of the project must fall within AHRC’s subject remit. Practice-based and practice-led research is supported by this scheme. We do not support project studentships (funding PhD study) within this funding opportunity.
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