Research Grant Scheme continues to support Wales’ future experts
Projects as wide-ranging as policing and air quality, British Sign Language and social exclusion have received funding in the latest round of the LSW’s Research Grant scheme.
The scheme awards up to £1000 to researchers to run workshops that bring people together at the early stage of planning and developing a collaborative research project.
The aim is that these workshop result in the creation of a research network or bids for additional funding to develop the project further.
Barbara Ibinarriaga Soltero, the LSW’s Programme Manager for Researcher Development, said:
“A fundamental aim of the LSW is to create an environment that supports Wales’ current and future experts.
“The grant scheme is a vital part of that work.
“Since we launched it two years ago, the scheme has supported over 30 different projects and is becoming an important part of Wales’ research landscape.”
The schemes that received money in the first round of applications for 2023/24 were (listed with the lead proposer):
| Police Peer Supervision to Support Wellbeing | Dr Tegan Brierley-Sollis | Wrexham University |
| South Wales Assessment Network (SWAN) | Natalie Forde-Leaves | University of South Wales |
| Fostering Sanctuary and Anti-Racism Through Community Collaborations | Dr. Sharmin Julie | University of South Wales |
| Co-producing air quality citizen science in Caerphilly County Borough | Dr. Rachel Hale | Cardiff University |
| Welsh History Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Network | Dr Stephanie Ward | Cardiff University |
| Expanding the BSL and Deaf Research Network in Wales | Dr Julia Terry | Swansea University |
| National Poet of Wales International Cynghanedd Project | Mared Roberts | Literature Wales |
| Social Exclusion Research Interest Group (SOCSEN) | Deborah Morgan | Swansea University |
| Empowering Places: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Community-Focused Education | Tom Avery | Swansea University |
| Regenerative Tourism in Bridgend through Grassroots Engagement | Dr Karen Davies | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| Empowering Young People in Research | Dr Michaela James | Swansea University |
| Support for Neurodivergent Staff working in UK Higher Education | Dr Emma Harrison | Wrexham University |
| Community Schools in Wales: Conceptual understanding, Current deployment, and future development | Lisa Formby | Wrexham University |
| Strengthening Research Collaboration and Community in Arts and Humanities across Wales and Scotland | Professor Kirsti Bohata | Swansea University |
| Representation of Older People in Welsh-language TV Drama Workshops | Dr Aelwyn Williams | Swansea University |
| Citizen science in the community: Co-production of a programme to support the engagement of people living in deprived areas to gain insight into physical inactivity and health inequalities | Dr Zsofia Szekeres | Cardiff Metropolitan University |