Doctoral Programmes in Germany

DAAD research grants provide young foreign academics and scientists with an opportunity to carry out research and continue their education in Germany. There are funding programmes for various qualification phases and stages in a career. The grants also promote the exchange of experience and networking amongst colleagues.

Who can apply?
Excellently-qualified young academics and scientists who have completed a Master's degree or Diplom, or in exceptional cases a Bachelor's degree at the latest by the time they begin their grant-supported research.

What can be funded?
Doctoral programmes at a state or state-recognised institution of higher education or a non-university research institute in Germany.

Duration of the funding
A maximum of four years.
Grants are initially awarded for a maximum of one year. Extensions depend on whether the selection committee considers the previous award period to have been successfully completed.

Application deadline
October 15 2017

More information 
https://www.daad.de/deutschland/stipendium/datenbank/en/21148-scholarship-database/?status=&origin=15&subjectGrps=&daad=1&q=&page=3&detail=57135739

Who to contact
DAAD Information Centre Bangkok
c/o Thai-German Cultural Foundation
18/1 Soi Goethe, Sathorn 1
Bangkok 10120
Thailand
Tel.: +66 (2)/286 8708-09
Fax.: +66 (2)/286 48 45
info@daad.or.th
http://www.daad.or.th

Wellcome Trust - Seed Awards in Science

Seed Awards in Science help researchers develop new ideas to make them competitive for larger awards (from Wellcome Trust or other organisations).

Researchers:

• at the start of their independent careers
• who want to develop ideas outside their discipline or area of expertise

are particularly encouraged.

These awards give scope for innovative methodologies and activities, such as:

• pilot and scoping studies
• preliminary data gathering
• proof-of-principle studies
• planning sessions
• collaborative network meetings. 

Seed Awards in Science are not for:

• discrete projects with no follow-on plans
• bridge funding or short-term fellowships.

Eligibility: you must have a PhD and be based at a university in the UK or an LMIC ( low and middle income country, this includes Thailand) 

Budget: Applicants may request up to 100,000 GBP   

Duration: The maximum project period is 2 years.

Deadline: 2 October 2017, 17:00 BST

Full details:  https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/seed-awards-science ( You can also contact the Wellcome team for more information) 

AHRC-MRC Global Public Health: Partnership Awards Call 2

The overarching driver of this partnership building activity is to develop inter-disciplinary research capacity and capability in both the UK and developing countries, jointly and collaboratively and across career stages. The aim is to generate reciprocal benefits through integrating an understanding of cultures and histories into medical and public health challenges in a global context and to equip the next generation of researchers to work collaboratively and blend scientific, cultural and policy research.

In order not to limit the potential for inter-disciplinary innovation under this call the call is open to proposals addressing any global public health issue affecting low and middle countries.


The following activities are permissible under this partnership grant scheme:

• Establishing inter-disciplinary collaborative partnerships or consortia
• Developing strategy to strengthen research activity across the field
• Knowledge sharing across research departments and/or between institutions and across sectoral boundaries both within the UK and with LMIC based colleagues.
• Small scale/pilot/proof of principle/exploratory/ higher risk inter-disciplinary projects to explore innovative boundary crossing collaborations
• Cross-disciplinary (and cross-cultural / language) literature reviews/ research synthesis/ evidence analysis or integrative data sharing and analysis,
• Widening/ extending the disciplinary breadth of existing teams / partnerships (e.g. through placements, embedding, ethnographic research)
• Career development, inter-disciplinary skills enhancement and capacity building.
• Establishing shared infrastructure, for example, staff, systems, equipment, data, seminars, workshops.  This could include a co-ordinated set of needs-led and complimentary networking activities (including outreach work and travel) with a defined output.

Eligibility: a UK university will be the applicant but they must partner with an LMIC institution ( Low and middle income country, this includes Thailand)  

Budget: Applicants may request up to 200,000 GBP   

Duration: The maximum project period is 2 years.

Deadline: 4 pm BST Thursday 26 October 2017

Full details:  www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/ahrc-mrc-gcrf-2/ahrc-mrc-global-public-health-partnership-awards-call-2/