The ISRF regularly offers support to small groups of scholars working collaboratively. The Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition currently runs annually (usually in the second half of the calendar year).
Generally speaking, ISRF small group awards are intended as enabling one or more short periods of face-to-face joint group work such as workshops, working-in-pairs, or short academic visits (e-working, video-conferencing or Skype expenses are not included).
In October 2023, the ISRF launched its tenth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. The deadline for applications is 5pm BST, 30th November 2023.
In April 2023, the ISRF launched its 2023 Call for Workshops, inviting submissions of suggested topics for one or more face-to-face workshops generating a series of papers ultimately to become a special issue or forum (a collection of articles within an issue) in the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JTSB).
In August 2022, the ISRF launched its ninth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Award decisions were announced in March 2023.
In August 2021, the ISRF launched its eighth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a selection panel nominated the following 24 projects for award:
In August 2020, the ISRF launched its seventh Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of 21 projects:
In October 2019, the ISRF launched its sixth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of 17 projects:
In September 2018, the ISRF launched its fifth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of ten projects:
*Funded as Residential Research Group projects, taking place in Berlin, August 2019.
In July 2017, the ISRF launched its fourth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of fourteen projects:
In the winter of 2016, the ISRF ran its second Residential Research Groups competition (open to previous ISRF Fellows), aimed at supporting groups of 2-10 scholars for short, intensive residential research projects which subsequently took place in the summer of 2017. Five projects were awarded:
In April 2016, the ISRF launched its third Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition, aimed at supporting independent-minded researchers from different disciplines who wish to work together towards conceptual innovation in Political Economy – which the ISRF here extends to include the social scientific study of economies across the whole range of the social sciences. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of eight projects:
In the winter of 2015, the ISRF ran its first Residential Research Groups competition (open to previous ISRF Fellows), aimed at supporting groups of 2-10 scholars for short, intensive residential research projects which subsequently took place in the summer of 2016. Seven projects were awarded:
In October 2015, the ISRF launched its second Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of twelve projects:
In November 2014, the ISRF launched its first Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a pool of independent external assessors supported the funding of nine projects:
If you would like to contact any of our Grantees to discuss their ISRF-funded work, please contact Dr Lars Cornelissen (Academic Editor) in the first instance, at [email protected].