Research Grants

The Society supports research mathematics under several different grants schemes. For all research grant schemes offered by the Society, the applicant must be a mathematician based in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

Grant schemes

• Scheme 1: Conference Grants - up to £7,000 available.
  Scheme 1 award success rate 2019/20: 96%

• Scheme 2: Visiting Speakers to the UK - up to £1,500 available.
  Scheme 2 award success rate 2019/20: 82%

• Scheme 3: Joint Research Groups - up to £4,000 available (over two years).
  Scheme 3 award success rate 2019/20: 96%

• Scheme 4: Research in Pairs (Scheme 4) - up to £1,200 available.
  Scheme 4 award success rate 2019/20: 92%

• Scheme 5: Collaborations with Developing Countries - up to £3,000 available
  Scheme 5 award success rate 2019/20: 86%

• Scheme 6: Research Workshop Grants

• Scheme 7: Computer Science Small Grants - up to £1,000 available
  Scheme 7 award success rate 2018/19: 73%

• Scheme 8: Postgraduate Research Conference Grants - up to £4,000 available.
  Scheme 8 award success rate 2019/20: 65%

• Scheme 9: Celebrating New Appointments - up to £600 available.
  Scheme 9 award success rate 2019/20: 92%

• Early Career Researcher Travel Grants - up to £500 available.
  Early Career Researcher travel grants award success rate 2019/20: 48%

  Success rates

  In the 2018/19 financial year, 88% of applications for funding under a Scheme 1 - 5 Research Grant were successful. In the 2018/19 financial year 68% of applications for funding for Early Career Researcher Grants (Scheme 8, Scheme 9 and Travel grants) were successful.

  Committees

  Applications for Schemes 1 - 6 are considered by the Research Grants Committee.

  Applications for Scheme 7 are considered by the Computer Science Committee.

  Applications for Schemes 8 - 9 and the Early Career Research Travel Grants are considered by the Early Career Research Committee.