The QUWA Research Grants are the funding strand of the Forum for Women in Research (WIRF), run by the University of Sharjah in the UAE. Its sixth edition meets in Sharjah on 31 March–1 April 2027.
A woman researcher submits one project as principal investigator in one of five categories: health sciences; an Emirates NBD track on AI, digital assets and finance; computing, engineering and sciences; NAMA tracks on gender and policy; or women’s studies in Palestine.
Benefits & funding
- Between AED 10,000 and AED 25,000 per project.
- The money must be spent on the project, e.g. conference costs, publication fees, project resources or software.
- Winners must acknowledge the sponsor in their publication.
Eligibility
- The principal investigator must be a woman researcher at a university: faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, MSc or PhD student, or research assistant.
- Male researchers may join the team as collaborators.
- Open to researchers from any country.
- The work must stay unpublished until the forum; it may be a proposal with expected results or research in progress with preliminary results.
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Gender requirement
Female
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Application process
- 1Complete the submission template from the forum’s Submission page, stating whether the work is a proposal or research in progress.
- 2Upload it through EasyChair by 15 October 2026.
- 3Each applicant may submit only one study as principal investigator.
Program timeline
Submission deadline
Oct 15, 2026
Author notification
Jan 15, 2027
Forum in Sharjah
Mar 31, 2027 to Apr 1, 2027