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Grants

The QRA provides grants to its members with the aim of promoting high quality Quaternary research, training and dissemination of results, as widely as possible. Discover more about our range of grants here.

Undergraduate & postgraduate grants

Bill Bishop Award

Award maximum: £950 (up to one award per year)

Eligibility: Full or part-time MPhil/PhD students

Field-based research in the fields of: (i) Cenozoic stratigraphy, palaeo-environments and chronology in relation to hominid evolution; and (ii) British Quaternary stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and geomorphology

Deadlines: 15th February 2024

QRA-14CHRONO Centre Radiocarbon Dating Award

Award maximum: 3 dates (up to 10 dates awarded in total per year)

Eligibility: Undergraduate, Postgraduate taught, year 1 PhD students

AMS radiocarbon dates

Deadlines: 15th May 2023, 15th February 2024

New Research Workers Grant

Award maximum: £1650 (multiple grants awarded per year)

Eligibility: Postgraduate taught & research students

Research activities, e.g. field expeditions, geological surveys, visits to laboratories, purchase of essential field equipment and laboratory analyses

Deadlines: 15th May 2023, 15th September 2023, 15th February 2024, 15th September 2024

Postgrad Quaternary Conference Fund

Award maximum: £900 (multiple grants awarded per year)

Eligibility: Postgraduate taught & research students

Supports postgraduate attendance at conferences and field meetings.

Deadlines: 15th May 2023, 15th September 2023, 15th February 2024, 15th September 2024

QRA-Oxford Radiocarbon Dating Short Course Bursaries

Award maximum: Up to 3 bursaries offered per year

Eligibility: Open to all, excluding undergraduate students. Preference given to Year 1 PhD students without Research Council funding

Enable members to participate in two days of the radiocarbon dating short course run jointly by NERC, AHRC and the University of Oxford. Covers course fees.

Deadlines: TBC 2024

Grants for all other members

Quaternary Research Large Grant

Award maximum: £5500 (one grant awarded per year)

Eligibility: Full members only

To support an outstanding application of scientific excellence for fieldwork expeditions and/or innovative laboratory-based projects

Deadlines: 15th September 2023, 15th September 2024

Quaternary Research Small Grant

Award maximum: £1650 (multiple grants awarded per year)

Eligibility: Full members only

Any research costs deemed suitable by the Awards Panel (e.g. fund field expenses, hire equipment, etc.); not 14C dating or labour costs.

Deadlines: 15th May 2023, 15th September 2024, 15th February 2023, 15th September 2024

Quaternary Conference Fund

Award maximum: £900 (multiple grants awarded per year)

Eligibility: Full members only

Assist with attendance at conferences and field meetings

Deadlines: 15th May 2023, 15th September 2023, 15th February 2024, 15th September 2024

QRA Outreach Funding

Award maximum: Typically up to £1000

Eligibility: All QRA members and organisations

For individuals and organisations to organise public engagement events and/or develop/disseminate outreach materials on a Quaternary theme.

 

Deadlines: 1st September 2023, 15th September 2024

QRA Geoconservation Grant

Award maximum: Typically up to £1000

Eligibility: All QRA members and orgnasaitons

To support, deliver and promote the conservation of our Quaternary geoheritage.

Deadlines: 1st September 2023, 15th Feburary 2024, 15th September 2024

QRA-Oxford Radiocarbon Dating Short Course Bursaries

Award maximum: Up to 3 bursaries offered per year

Eligibility: Open to all, excluding undergraduate. Preference given to Year 1 PhD students without Research Council funding

Enable members to participate in two days of the radiocarbon dating short course run jointly by NERC, AHRC & the University of Oxford. Covers course fees.

Deadlines: TBC 2024

QRA INQUA Congress Fund

Award maximum: £900 (multiple grants awarded in INQUA year)

Eligibility: Open to all

Attendance at the INQUA Congress, with priority to those with limited sources of funding, especially PG and ECR researchers; once every 4 years

Deadlines: Applications for INQUA 2023 are now closed. Future dates for INQUA 2027 ate to be confirmed.