Deadline: 22 May 2019
Applications are open for Heritage, Dignity and Violence Programme to fund research on sustainable peace and the prevention of violence broadly understood.
The projects funded under this programme must demonstrate an innovative and interdisciplinary approach yielding new conceptual understandings, developing ground-breaking research and energising innovative collaborations in the humanities and social sciences. Applications must address one or more of the following themes:
- Heritage: Heritage and memorialisation – understood not only as visual and material culture, but also as identity, language and faith transmitted over time – can be both inclusive and peaceful as well as exclusive and marginalising.
- Dignity: For many people experiencing development challenges, the aspirations fostered and suffering endured, the preservation of dignity is of central importance as are the opportunities these might bring in bringing real and meaningful change. The weaving of dignity into their understanding of violence, exclusion, inequality, stability and peace is a complex issue, since it often involves very different conceptions of the rights of the individual, of the community and the underlying structural factors and political economy of a given context.
- Violence: Violence is a near ever-present reality for much of humanity, but the narratives and experiences of violence, and the relationships between diverse aspects of violence, peace and stability are poorly understood.
Funding Information
Projects must be 21 months in duration, with a maximum value of £300,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Principal Investigators must be based in the UK, however, equitable international collaboration is strongly expected to be detailed in any application. They particularly encourage collaboration with institutions and partners in the Global South and expect to see applications demonstrate fully how researchers from the Global South will be involved as equal partners in the research proposed.
- The Principal Investigator and any Co-Applicants must be of postdoctoral or above status, or have equivalent research experience, and hold an established role that will last at least the duration of the grant funded by the British Academy.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/heritage-dignity-violence
