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Funding opportunities

1) Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

The Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre runs an annual Early Career Researcher (ECR) Development Fund for research that aligns with the Centre’s programme of work, values and principles.

The Fund aims to build research capacity and capability to tackle current and emerging challenges related to vulnerability and policing. It seeks to widen the reach of the Centre’s work, enabling early career researchers to lead co-produced pioneering projects that contribute new findings and insights. It supports research in areas where knowledge gaps are most prominent and where research benefits offer the greatest value.

Research grants of up to £25,000 for 12-month projects are available. The Centre provides support to the successful applicants to maximise the reach and impact of their research.

ECR Development Fund for 2025

This year’s Fund is a vulnerability and policing open call with a particular emphasis on the following themes:

  • Quantitative methodologies and/or the use of administrative data
  • Vulnerability in drugs markets (Dr Leah Moyle Commemorative Award)

The Fund will be open for applications until 4pm (GMT), Monday 13 January 2025.

Webinar

If you are interested in finding out more and applying for the 2025 Early Career Researcher Development Fund, register for a webinar on Thursday 17 October 2024, 2pm – 3pm.

Read the Fund guidance and apply

Read the Fund FAQs

Deadline: 4pm GMT, Monday 13 January 2024

 

2) Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Barbara Huber Scholarship Program

Who can participate in the program?

The program is open to outstanding academics from foreign research institutions for particularly innovative research projects that contribute significantly to scientific progress through new perspective, questions, or findings in the subject areas of CriminologyPublic Law, or Criminal Law. Each department may award one Barbara Huber Scholarship per calendar year.

Required documents

  • CV
  • List of academic publications
  • A maximum of three German or English publications (PDF)
  • Description of the research project (5–10 pages)

Scholarship duration

The scholarships are awarded for a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law for a period of two to a maximum of six months.

Scholarship amount

The scholarship amounts to EUR 1,365.00 per month for doctoral candidates, EUR 2,500.00 for postdocs, and EUR 3,000.00 for professors and experienced researchers. In addition to the monthly scholarship, a grant can also be awarded for expenses in connection with participation in an academic event or further research activities in Germany or other (European) countries.

Health insurance

All scholarship holders must have health insurance. Please ensure that you have adequate health insurance and provide us with proof of this.

Application deadline

Applications for scholarships for the following year must be submitted by  30 November of the previous year.

Barbara Huber Scholarship Program | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (mpg.de) 

 

If you would like to place a funding opportunity announcement, please send your text to the Secretariat of the European Society of Criminology: secretariat@esc-eurocrim.org