New Research Workers Grant

New Research Workers Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Quaternary Research Association
Amount: Up to £1,650
Last Updated: December 30, 2025

Summary

The New Research Workers Grant, provided by the Quaternary Research Association, supports postgraduate researchers in their studies. It funds essential activities such as field expeditions, geological surveys, and laboratory analyses. Applicants must be registered postgraduates and may only apply once during their studies. The grant prioritizes those with limited funding access. However, it excludes costs related to labor and radiocarbon dating, and does not accept applications from undergraduates or retrospective requests.

Overview

About the award The New Research Workers Grant is aimed at researchers studying for higher degrees, and typically supports field expeditions, geological surveys, visits to laboratories, purchase of essential field equipment and laboratory analyses.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. To be eligible for the scheme you must be a registered postgraduate with a current membership of the QRA at the time of application. You must not yet hold a doctoral degree or a tenured academic position.Postgraduates are only eligible to apply once for the NRWG during their studies.Postgraduate status is considered to end at the time of submission of the research dissertation or thesis. A letter of support from the applicant’s PhD supervisor must accompany the application. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. To be eligible for the scheme you must have been a QRA member for at least 6 months by the time of application and must not hold a doctoral degree or a tenured academic position.

Ineligibility

Please note that labour costs and radiocarbon dating are not supported. Please note that we are not able to accept applications for radiocarbon dates under this scheme.The scheme is not open to undergraduates. The QRA will not consider retrospective applications, i.e. to support activities that will already have occurred prior the deadline date. Furthermore, in order to encourage well-planned and properly budgeted projects, the QRA will not consider applications for activities that will take place within 2 months of the deadline date.No further applications will be considered until 12 months have elapsed from the time of receipt of written reports and/or statements of expenditure.Successful applicants who do not provide the written reports requested cannot be considered for future awards until their reports have been received.