The British Academy
The British Academy was established by Royal Charter in 1902, champions and supports the humanities and social sciences. It aims to inspire, recognise and support excellence and high achievement across the UK and internationally.
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The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)
The Association fulfils its purpose of encouraging research in the modern humanities by publishing journals, bibliographies, monographs and other aids to research; assisting with publication of original work, by subvention, or by collaboration with other learned publishers; appointing annually Research Associates to corporate projects of distinction, such as dictionaries, textual editions, bibliographies, or related scholarly enterprises; offering annually Conference Grants to support conferences or colloquia within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures (including English) held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. The Association also supports minority languages and postgraduate studies.

Nuffield Foundation
The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943. The Foundation looks to support projects that are imaginative and innovative, take a thoughtful and rigorous approach to problems, and have the potential to influence policy or practice.
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The Research Assessment Exercises (RAE)
The Research Assessment Exercise was conducted jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL).

The primary purpose of the RAE 2008 was to produce quality profiles for each submission of research activity made by institutions. The four higher education funding bodies intend to use the quality profiles to determine their grant for research to the institutions which they fund with effect from 2009-10.

Research Councils UK
The Research Councils UK website is a joint portal for all Research Councils, offering access to the whole range of UK research funded through the councils, including the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).