We are writing to let you know that we are inviting applications for grants in medicine and health under our Butterfield Award Programme.
The principal intention of the programme is to enable researchers, practitioners, policy makers and voluntary sector workers in Japan and the UK to share experience and advance knowledge and good practice, and to facilitate UK-Japan professional exchanges and small-scale collaborations.
Applications can be in any relevant field of medicine and health. Projects in the economics and management of healthcare, public health and the interface between medical and social care are particularly welcome.
Grants are not available to fund laboratory consumables and equipment nor for the purely clinical costs of joint research projects but are intended, for example, to help towards travel and living expenses of such research collaborations, or towards seminars, conferences, workshops or publications.
With entry restrictions for Japan now eased, we look forward to supporting projects involving travel and research between the UK and Japan in this coming round. However, we have also noted increasing costs, and therefore the maximum amount per year has been upped from £5,000 to £10,000, for up to three years of continuous support, therefore offering up to £30,000 for a single project.
Further background information is attached, and for examples of the kind of projects that have received our funding, our Annual Reports list Butterfield awards made each year and provide examples of the kind of projects that have received our funding in the past. These Reports can be viewed on our website www.gbsf.org.uk, where you can also download the Butterfield Programme application form: http://www.gbsf.org.uk/grants/butterfield-awards-in-medicine-and-health/
The deadline for applications is December 15 2022 for projects beginning no earlier than March 31 2023. Applications will be reviewed and if eligible will be submitted to our Trustees for review at their meeting in March 2023.
Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require clarification of the procedures, the award criteria, or should you wish to discuss with us the eligibility of a particular project. Please note that proposals that do not fulfil our special Butterfield Award criteria may still be eligible for funding under our regular programme of grants within the medicine and health category. You may apply to the regular programme, on our standard application form, should you consider your project unsuitable for a Butterfield Award. Please also feel free to pass this message on to any colleagues or associates to whom this may be of interest.
Rory SteeleProgrammes ExecutiveThe Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation24 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4TQwww.gbsf.org.uk