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What we've supported: Small Grants and Writing Retreats

 Small Grants and Writing Retreats

The Small Grant Award was available until April 2023.  It offered seed-corn funding that allowed a team of scholars, across disciplines and countries, to form around a particular research topic and to develop new work that integrated different disciplines and accounts of lived experience of mental disorder. The aim was to enable a group of, for example, researchers, clinicians, academics in the humanities and experts by experience to pursue substantial competitive research leading to publication and/or work towards major grant applications.

Two Small Research Grants of £10,000 each were available, and two Virtual Writing Retreats supported by the Project Team.  

For example, the Small Grant could cover a six-month small scale project of an interdisciplinary, international Group, the running of which requires a part-time Research Assistant who could, for instance, offer support for short-term data collection or for the undertaking of fieldwork or of literature review that is needed for the purposes of the Group’s project.


Virtual Writing Retreats

The Small Grant holders will be offered a Writing Retreat that would enable effective follow-up from the Small Grants, and would provide dedicated time for the Group to focus on: either i) completing a significant output (i.e. major paper(s)); or ii) develop and write an application for substantial follow-up funding.

The Virtual Writing Retreats were to facilitate engagement across internationally located teams, academics at different career levels and those with parenting/caring responsibilities. The Retreats will receive operational support from the Project Team as well as input and direction from the Project Leaders.


The Application Process

Applicants were required to submit:

  • a 1500-word proposal or a 5-minute video that explains what the goals of the proposed project are and how they will be pursued, the different disciplines and perspectives that the project will bring together, what the group’s focus will be in addressing renewing phenomenological psychopathology, and what the expected outputs would be; please include an indicative breakdown of approximative/expected costs. (References and the Bibliography are not included in the 1500 words, but Bibliography should not be longer than one page.)
  • a 100-word biography (if you are submitting as a team a biography would be required for each member).
  • a brief one/two-page CV of one named Principal Applicant and of the other co-applicants.

Applicants needed to hold a PhD in a relevant field, or have equivalent research or work experience, or have relevant lived experience.

An important aspect of this project is to diversify the field of Phenomenological Psychopathology. And so as with all elements of the RPP project, we encouraged applications from the widest range of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to maximise innovation in the field. We were particularly keen to receive submissions from female applicants, gender diverse applicants, early career researchers, those with lived experience of mental health difficulties, and researchers from the global south/non-WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) countries.


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