The Society offers Engagement Grant funding for initiatives that increase the scientific understanding of addiction and its treatment. Applications are considered twice a year, and the next deadline is 31 May 2024.
Criteria
We encourage applicants to be creative when applying for Engagement Grants. Past successful projects have included Delphi processes, citizen’s juries, multimedia projects producing healthcare materials, conferences, convening groups to review an area of work, and local pilot prevention schemes.
The lead applicant for each submission must be an SSA member or associate.
To receive funding, applications must come from settings that have appropriate governance structures in place (e.g. projects will usually need to be set within a university or clinical setting).
We do not support primary research projects, projects where the funding would effectively constitute a researcher’s salary, or projects that also receive support from, or are associated with, the alcohol, tobacco, gambling, or cannabis industries.
Dissemination
If your application is successful, we can offer advice about disseminating project information and findings. This could include producing videos, podcasts, and articles. Any publications arising from the project should acknowledge the SSA as the source of the funding.
Procedures
Applications for Engagement Grants must demonstrate how they will align with the SSA’s overall aims and objectives. Specifically, we would like to encourage proposals that involve collaboration between policy, practice, and people with lived experience, and proposals that address health inequalities.
We award Engagement Grant funding twice every year. There is a maximum allocation of £30,000 per project. The maximum funding for conferences will typically be £5,000.
The deadlines for 2024 are as follows:
- 31 May
- 27 September
Applications must be via the online form below. You will receive an email confirmation that you have successfully submitted the form. Applicants will be informed of decisions within one month of the submission deadline.
Please do not schedule any costed activities until two months after the submission.
Submission checklist
The Engagement Grants form below should be completed in full. As part of this, you will be required to attach the following documents:
- CV of lead: The proposer must be a single individual who will liaise with the Society on behalf of your team
- Full budget
- Timetable
Contractual arrangements
Financial support under the SSA Engagement Grants scheme is provided subject to a contract between the SSA and the Member / Associate or an institution they represent. Therefore, any offer or agreement by the SSA to provide funding is subject to contract. Once funding has been discussed and agreed upon, the SSA will provide the applicant with a contract for the funding in the SSA’s standard form. The terms of this contract will only be amended under exceptional circumstances and the SSA may withdraw any offer or agreement of funding if the contract terms are not agreed upon by all parties within a reasonable period.
Please contact Graham if you have any questions.
Engagement Grants application form
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