Frequently Asked Questions - Franklin Research Grants
Letters of support are due on the application deadline. As soon as you fill in the contact information for your letter writers, the system will send a message to them containing complete instructions on how to submit a letter on your behalf. You may want to fill in this section before completing the rest of the application in order to give your letter writers ample time to compose and submit their letters.
If your application shows the status “in progress” on October 2, you will be able to continue working on it and submit it for the December 1 deadline.
Applicants may be residents of the United States (either an American citizen or a foreign national or permanent resident affiliated with a U.S. institution) or American citizens resident abroad and may apply for funding to carry out projects anywhere in the world. Foreign nationals are eligible to apply for projects to be carried out in the United States.
No, the applications are one and the same. Simply apply to the Franklin program by October 1 and indicate that you would also like to be considered for the British Academy Fellowship.
In general, publications should be scholarly in nature and length, with extensive footnotes and possibly, though not necessarily, peer reviewed.
Yes, you may apply to the program again after an interval of two years.
All proposals are judged on their merits, and awards are made accordingly. That said, given the goal of stretching our resources as far as possible, a junior scholar will be favored over his or her senior colleague when several applicants are competing for the same funds.
No, you must have earned the Ph.D. prior to the date of the application, although an exception will be made if you are merely waiting for the degree to be conferred.
The first refers to the full time frame of a trip or project, and the second asks for the exact time period during which APS funds would be needed.
No, the proposal will not be available to the letter writers at that time. The best approach is to send them a copy of your statement or otherwise discuss the project with them ahead of the deadline.
