Linkage - International Social Sciences Collaboration

Contacts:
Genaya Misso
Acting Grants Officer
+61 8 8303 6926

Internal Closing Date: 18 May 2007
Eligibility Exemption Ruling - Requests must be sent to the Research Branch by 16 April 2007 (forms available in table below).

From time to time, the ARC collaborates with overseas funding agencies to fund collaborative research proposals in targetted areas of research, defined as Linkage International Internationally Coordinated Initiatives (ICIs).

The ARC and Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (ESRC) signed an Agreement in December 2005 to foster and support collaborative social science research and create networks linking individuals and centres within Australia and the UK.

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio-legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

The ARC and ESRC will accept counterpart proposals from researchers and eligible research organisations in their respective countries and undertake peer review according to their normal procedures. The two Councils will liaise with each other before reaching their separate funding decisions, with the aim of reaching a common decision. However, each Council also retains the right of final decision on their respective recommendations for funding.