Deadline: 6-Jul-22
The British Academy is pleased to announce the Global Convening Programmes to support international programmes that convene researchers internationally together over three years to develop sustained engagement across disciplines and borders.
The programme aims to provide significant opportunities for researchers in the UK and internationally across the humanities and social sciences globally to network, open new fields of inquiry, harness research to address these challenges aiming to catalyse change in industry, practice, policy and society, and support collaborative exploration across disciplines and borders.
Aims
The Academy envisages the awards made through this call will excel in achieving the following expectations:
- An ambitious, beyond the state-of-the-art programme that breaks new ground, that will achieve a significant change related to the policy-related problem/challenge focused on, at a global level.
- An internationally convened body of researchers with engagement across multiple, and potentially all, regions of the world. The programme will develop a diverse and equitable international partnership that is transparent and based on mutual respect.
- A highly interdisciplinary body of researchers that includes both the humanities and the social sciences at its core and may include other disciplines beyond.
- A novel exchange of ideas and co-creation of knowledge with wider stakeholders through identifying areas with the Academy to catalyse change in and translate knowledge with industry, practice, policy and society.
Thematical Areas
Applications must be related to the themes below;
- Just Transitions: In recent decades, just transitions are frequently understood in the context of climate change, however, today and in the past a just transition can have wider understandings, imaginations and experiences, and either of these can lead to contestation.
- What is a good city? The ‘good city’ is a value-laden term including the criteria that may be used to judge, how such values may be embedded in urban policymaking, and how different values may cause friction.
- Global (Dis) Order: There is no single solution to the challenges of global (dis)order. Plural and complex understandings are required that bring to the fore the cultural and historical elements of such understandings.
Funding Information
- Awards will be for around £500,000 per annum each.
- The two programme leads from different disciplines will receive research support of £15,000 per annum each.
- The up to 20 programme members from different disciplines will receive research support of £10,000 per annum each. A contribution of £10,000 will be provided to the programme lead(s) host institution
Duration: Programmes will be three years in duration. All programmes will begin by the end of 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- The application process will be run as a two-stage process with initial expressions of interest, followed by a final proposal supported by an in-person workshop at the British Academy.
- Each Expression of Interest must include a core team of 6-8 researchers based in the UK and internationally. This core team must include two programme leads. One of these must be based in the UK. In the wider team, there must be at least four participants not based in the UK.
- This core team must include researchers from multiple disciplines. This must include researchers in both the humanities and social sciences.
For more information, visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global-convening-programmes/