AHRC Standard Grants move to open deadlines

Next year, the AHRC will move to ‘open deadlines’ for research grant applications. This means that from January 2009 applicants will be able to submit standard, speculative and early career research grant applications at any time without having to worry about submitting for specific deadlines.

If you are thinking about, or working on, a bid and have in mind that you want to submit in January, early consultation with a member of REST is advised, please email Arts-REST in the first instance.

We also have had advance notification of some other changes to the application and approval process. There may be an additional couple of sections asking the applicant to consider who the beneficiaries of the research will be and asking you to outline how the project will ensure these beneficiaries benefit. Also, the AHRC will be seeking three peer reviews and the panels will be operating in a moderating rather than a re-reviewing role.

The March 2009 closing date of the research leave scheme is not affected by this move to open dates for research grants nor are any other deadlines under strategic programmes or other funding schemes.