Projects are welcome to apply for the funding required to support the proposed research activities, within to the funding limits described for each grant on page 5. Examples of eligible costs include:
- Funding to cover the time that Principal and Co-Investigators commit to the project.
- Employment of a Research Assistant to help with the research.
- Professional development activities for project staff (e.g., funding for a Research Assistant to participate in an academic conference or a methods training related to the project).
- Travel and subsistence for research activities (e.g., fieldwork, workshops, interviews, or visits to archives).
- Travel and subsistence to communicate the research (e.g., to present the project findings at an academic conference or to organise a dissemination workshop for the local community).
- Consumables for research activities (e.g., materials necessary to undertake creative research methods).
- Consumables for dissemination activities (e.g., to set up an exhibition or to design a policy paper).
- Translation or interpretation (e.g., to support research engagements or to translate project findings into languages spoken by local communities).
- Publication (e.g., to ensure journal articles are freely accessible).
- Indirect costs (overheads) associated with the project.
Applicants are required to demonstrate that any resources requested are reasonable in the context of the proposed research, and that the expected outcomes of the project are worth the funding requested.
Organisations in countries on the OECD DAC List of ODA Recipients (except China, India, or countries due to graduate from the list) will receive funding to cover the full costs of the project (100%). Organisations in the UK will receive funding in accordance with standard procedures for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants, in other words 80% of full economic cost, with the recipient organisation required to cover the balance.