Elizabeth Peel Professor of Psychology

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• Funding Opportunities Experiences Small grants
  and mid-career fellowships

• Elizabeth PeelProfessor of Psychology Social
  ChangeE e.peel_at_worc.ac.uk

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Small grants scheme

• Duties to Care A socio-legal exploration of
  caring for people with dementia. 7,391.
  September 2010- February 2012, with Rosie
  Harding, Keele University.
• Civil Partnership Exploring the meanings of
  commitment, ritual and recognition for same-sex
  couples. 7,420. July 2006 June 2009, with
  Victoria Clarke, UWE. Co-Principal Investigator.
• Neuroimaging Understanding the perceptions and
  experiences of participants. 7,005. January
  2005- March 2006, with Rachel Shaw and Richard
  Cooke, Aston University. Principal Investigator

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BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

• 2014 Round (Round 2)
• Application forms available from  4 March 2014
• Applicant deadline 15 April 2014
• http//www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/srg.cfm

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Mid-Career Fellowship Scheme Aims

• to support outstanding individual researchers
  with excellent research proposals, and to support
  outstanding communicators.
• awards are intended primarily to provide
  opportunities for scholars who have already
  published works of intellectual distinction or
  have established a significant track record as an
  excellent communicator and champion in their
  field, and who would normally be within no more
  than 15 years from the award of their
  doctorate.
• Dementia Talking Care, conversation and
  communication. British Academy Mid-Career
  Fellowship Scheme. 110,450. September
  2011-September 2012.

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Dementia Talking Projecthttp//www.dementiap
roject.net/content/dementia-talking

• Aim to understand how talk about, and to, people
  with dementia is constructed, with the goal of
  improving communication with people with
  dementia.
• Research questions How is dementia represented in
  society? How are people with dementia
  communicated with and about? In what ways can
  communication through everyday conversation
  improve the care of people with dementia?
• Publications
• Peel, E. (in press, 2014) The living death of
  Alzheimers versus Take a walk to keep dementia
  at bay Representation of dementia in print
  media and carer discourse. Sociology of Health
  Illness, 36(6).
• Peel, E. Harding, R. (2013) Its a huge maze,
  the system, its a terrible maze Dementia
  carers constructions of navigating health and
  social care services. Dementia The International
  Journal of Social Research and Practice.

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www.britac.ac.uk

• Mid-Career Fellowships
• Application forms, Outline Stage available from 
  14 August 2013
• Applicant deadline, Outline Stage 18 September
  2013
• Result of Outline Stage announced 18 December
  2013
• Application deadline, Second Stage 15 January
  2014

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Application experience

• timely idea, achievable within time scale, impact
  built in.
• builds on previous BA funded research. Duties to
  Care project. www.dementiaproject.net
• skills development.

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Assessment criteria

• Assessors will evaluate the proposal on the basis
  of its academic merit, taking into account its
  originality, its relationship to, and the volume
  of, research already in the field, the scholarly
  importance of the research proposed, the
  suitability of the methodology, the feasibility
  of the research programme, the specificity of the
  scheme of research, the presentation, and
  intended outcomes.

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Final thoughts

• Our mission is to inspire, recognise and support
  high achievement in the humanities and social
  sciences throughout the UK and internationally,
  and to champion their role and value.
• Go for it!