Period: 2023-01-25 – 2023-02-14 23:59
Number: V 2023/100
Travel and research grants at the Faculty of Social Sciences
Application
The application form is available in the application system for scholarships and grants.
The application is to include a brief but thorough account of the purpose of the trip and its significance to your research. Research students are to include a certificate from their supervisor. You´ll need to provide an account of previously awarded grants.
Principles for the allocation travel and research grants
In addition to the criteria stated by the respective foundations, the Faculty Board prioritises conference trips that involve active participation ahead of pure research trips, which should normally be funded within each project. Furthermore, priority is given to international travel; grants for trips within Sweden are only awarded in exceptional cases. The aim is to cover as much as possible of the costs of each trip. This means that a single applicant may sometimes be awarded funding from several foundations to cover the costs involved. The Faculty Board also strives for a reasonably even distribution between departments, as well as between researchers with a doctoral degree and those who have yet to defend their doctoral thesis.
When the available funding is scarce, priority will be given to applicants who have not been awarded grants within the past year, or a total of more than SEK 20 000 over the past 5 years. If several applicants meet all the criteria, the faculty will make a selection trough the drawing of lots.
Decision
The decisions on allocation will be made by the Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, unless otherwise stated under each foundation.
Disbursement
Disbursement to persons employed at Lund University will be made to the applicant’s department. Where applicable, the application is to include the department’s overhead costs. It is appropriate to include these under the heading ‘other costs’. The costs stated in the application are to exclude VAT.
In cases where, in accordance with the statutes of the foundation, grants can be awarded to organisations outside Lund University or to students directly, the disbursement will be made to a personal bank account or equivalent. In such cases, the costs stated in the application are to include VAT.
If the funds have not been used for the purpose for which they were allocated within the timeframe decided, they are to be repaid to the foundation.
Grants
Stiftelsen Rektor Nils Stjernquists forskningsfond (92069)
Purpose: grants for research on the development of Swedish society and its trade and industry. Grants are given for long stays abroad to one or several researchers who have taken their doctor’s degree.
Amount: SEK 660 000
The decision is made by the Vice-Chancellor after suggestions have been made by the concerned faculties.
Stiftelsen Professor Herman Siegvalds och Fru Hilma Siegvalds fond för pedagogisk och psykologisk forskning (92078)
Purpose: grants for academic research in psychology or pedagogy at the Departments of Education and Psychology at Lund University, or at The School of Teacher Education at Malmö University (research in the pedagogical field). The grants distributed should not be lower than 5000 SEK per person.
Amount: SEK 556 000
Stiftelsen A och Charlotte Wollmars donation (93320)
Purpose: grants to lecturers and “docents” for travel abroad
Amount: SEK 6 800
Stiftelsen Landshövding Per Westlings minnesfond (95096)
Purpose: travel and research grants for both junior and senior researchers at Lund University
Amount: SEK 100 600