The ongoing success and importance of our Research Grant Scheme is evident in the eight new projects that have received funding in the latest application round.

This year we are awarding grants that meet any of the following conditions:

• Wales Studies
• Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• Early Career Researcher (any discipline) as project leader

We attracted bids from six of Wales’ universities.

“We’re delighted with the ongoing success of the Grant Scheme,” said Dr Barbara Ibinarriaga Soltero, our Programme Manager for Researcher Development.

“It has become an important part of Wales’ research landscape and we’re starting to see its effect in terms of generating successful long-term research projects.

“For example, researchers at Wrexham University who received one of our grants last year have used that to secure a £15,000 grant from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Hub Wales for their project ‘Police Peer Supervision to Support Wellbeing’.

“This is precisely why we established our grant scheme and it is so encouraging to see it starting to bear fruit in this way.”

The eight projects we have funded in this latest round are:

Empowering places: interdisciplinary approaches to community-focused education	Dr 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 / Dr Elain Price	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