ECT Student Grants

ECT Student Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Ecological Continuity Trust
Amount: Up to £3,000
Last Updated: January 22, 2026

Summary

The Ecological Continuity Trust offers student grants of up to £3000 to support undergraduate and postgraduate research projects at long-term experiments (LTEs) on its register. These funds can cover essential research consumables, travel, and accommodation costs. Note that conference travel is no longer supported. Applications must include a personal reference from the project supervisor, ensuring compliance with ECT data policies. This initiative aims to promote ecological research and maintain high-quality experimental data.

Overview

NOTE: Please note that ECT no longer supports conference travel/accommodation through this scheme. The Ecological Continuity Trust is a UK charity formed in 2008. Our aim is to support long-term experimental ecology and its application to conservation and sustainable land management. We support long-term experiments by providing much needed funds through our grants scheme and emergency repair funds. We have also established a network of key stakeholders that help champion LTEs and the valuable science they produce. Find out about our LTE User Group here. Our vision is to develop a strategic network of long-term ecological experiments. This includes safeguarding existing high quality experiments and data, whilst also ensuring new facilities are planned for the long-term. The vision extends into then ensuring that experimental field ecology is at the heart of evidence-based policymaking and sustainable land use. Student GrantsWe provide funds of up to £3000 to support students undertaking undergraduate or postgraduate research projects at LTEs currently on the ECT register. Funds might be used for:consumables or specialist equipment required for the experimental research;travel and accommodation, enabling students to work on LTEs where no institutional funding exists;Student Grant applications require a personal reference provided by the project supervisor, to be submitted along with the grant application form.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. To be eligible for an ECT grant, all specified activities must be undertaken on, or associated with, a long-term experiment (LTE) such as those that are currently on the ECT register. Please see the ligible sites hereGrants are provided to fund research and to cover travel costs associated with communicating scientific findings. The ECT also provides funds to undertake essential maintenance at LTEs, and to assist with data curation activities.Grant recipients must comply with the ECT Data Policy which is available here.

Ineligibility

Please note that ECT no longer supports conference travel/accommodation through this scheme.