Early Career Small Research Grants
If you’re a UK-based member in your early career, this research funding might be for you. We launched the Early Career Small Research Grants (ECSRG) in 2015 in celebration of our 40th anniversary, and provide up to £3,000 per grant. In any one year we give a maximum of three grants.
For the ECSRG, early career means five years maximum between the date showing on your PhD certificate and the application deadline. Your proposed research must be in International Studies or a related sub-field. In addition we expect your research to be complete in a maximum time span of one year.
Applications are currently closed. When they re-open we will post the deadline on this page.
Your application will be considered by our Research sub-committee at its meeting in mid-December. Notification of outcomes will be sent out in January.
Following the conclusion of your award we ask you to submit a report to us, as well as to write an article for our website. More details will be provided with your grant notification.
If you have any questions please contact our office: office@bisa.ac.uk
"The grant enabled me to conduct interviews in New York, London and Brussels and has led to some further funding to broaden the research project. I couldn’t have done this without the grant."
Past recipients
2020
- Dr Joshua Baker (University of Leicester)
- Dr Gemma Bird (University of Liverpool)
- Dr Hannah Partis-Jennings (Loughborough University)
2019
- Dr Nicholas Bernards (University of Warwick) The Colonial Origins of Policy Failures in Global Development Governance
- Dr Laura Mills (currently on maternity leave)
- Dr Aisling O'Loghlen (currently on maternity leave)
2018
- Dr Gillian McFadyen (Aberystwyth University) This research project focuses on Refugees in Britain: Practices of Hospitality and Labelling.
- Dr Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) This research project explores Civil society perceptions of NATO: What place for Women, Peace and Security?
2017
- Dr Julia Schmidt (University of Exeter) This research project explores Regional Organisations and the Responsibility to Protect: The Case of the European Union
- Dr Hannes Hansen-Magnusson (Cardiff University) This research project focuses on Discovering Common Ground in International Forums (DISCOINFORM)
- Dr Holly Eva Ryan (Manchester Metropolitan University) This research project examines The Art of International Friendship
2016
- Dr Richard Johnson (University of Strathclyde) This research seeks to investigate arms transfer policies of the United Kingdom and, in turn, compare policy versus practice in arms transfers occurring since the end of World War II.
- Dr Edward Wastnidge (Open University) For the purposes of this pilot study, the question will be how are instruments managed by the Iranian state used to channel its influence among the global Shi’i community?