British Ecological Society’s funding programme

Launching our new grants programme

Introducing our distinctive new grants programme to launch in 2024 and a delay to funding in 2022

Small Research Grants

Discover more about our research grants

Long-term Research Grants

Supporting the launch of new long-term studies

Synthesis Grants

Fast-tracking innovative research through the formation of two-year synthesis groups

Pedagogical Research and Development Grants

Grants to improve learning, teaching, and assessment methods

Outreach and Engagement Grants

Funding to engage public audiences with the excitement of ecological science

Connecting Ecologists with other Disciplines Grants

Promoting skills by funding placements in different disciplines and sectors

Training & Travel Grants

For students and postgraduate research assistants

BES Review College

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Other funders

Opportunities outside of the British Ecological Society

BES synthesis grant funds research into forest restoration biases

We chat to the first recipient of our new synthesis grant, Philip Martin, who is exploring biases in forest restoration with a team of ecologists and practitioners.

Tackling climate anxiety through pedagogical research British Ecological Society calls for greater funding for ecological research and sets out research agenda BES Ecology grants now open for 2023 applications New BES grants programme announced for 2024 New research shows that current national red squirrel conservation strategies likely to undermine species survival in future New model predicts Painted Lady butterfly migrations based on breeding sites data Sequencing pollen DNA to discover insect migratory routes Painted lady’s roundtrip migratory flight is longest recorded in butterflies What are our grant awardees publishing in our journals?Citizen scientists help capture wild mammals on camera More News

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