The Uses and Abuses of Biology Grants Programme, organised by The Faraday Institute, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, is accepting applications for funding. Academics from any university in the world are invited to apply by 31st October, 2011. Essay prizes on the same theme will also be awarded annually over two years. The aim of the interdisciplinary Programme is to investigate contemporary non-scientific uses and abuses of biological thought (beneficial, benign or negative) in the domains of philosophy, the social sciences, the media, religion and politics. Further details and application forms at
