Deadline: 14-Sep-22
The British Academy is inviting applications for funding for researcher-led Innovation Fellowships (Route A), through which applicants must apply with a partner which they have identified.
The British Academy has been funded by the UK Government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to continue its support of a new scheme, the Innovation Fellowships. The Innovation Fellowships Scheme will provide funding and support for established early-career and mid-career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to partner with organisations and business in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors, to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions.
Through the Innovation Fellowships, their researchers in the SHAPE community will be supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, so enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skills development. These Fellowships will forge innovative place-based partnerships to create new intellectual, cultural, community and economic opportunities that will address key societal challenges.
Aims
This includes, but is not limited to:
- developing new approaches for supporting innovation across the economy, regions, and society;
- contributing to and leading on challenges targeted at increasing links with industry and business, broadly defined;
- improving direct connection of researchers with policymakers, leaders and innovators at local and regional levels.
Themes
The British Academy’s public policy themes are the following:
- Sustainability for people and planet;
- Social and cultural infrastructures;
- Digital societies;
- Governance, trust and voice.
Funding Information
- Level of award: Route A (researcher-led) awards are on a Full Economic Costing (FEC) basis. The British Academy will award up to £120,000.
- Starting period of award: no earlier than 1 February 2023 and no later than 31 March 2023
- Duration of award: awards can be held for a minimum period of six months and up to a maximum period of 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK with a current long-term appointment that will continue for at least as long as the period of the award at a UK-based institution (HEI or IRO); and be at early or mid-career stage.
- Applicants should apply with a named UK-based partner organisation outside the Lead Applicant’s employing institution. A partner organisation includes: business, charity and public sector organisations, community organisations, policy-relevant organisations, think tanks or voluntary organisations.
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For more information, visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/innovation-fellowships-scheme-route-a-researcher-led/