Deadline: 22 May 2019
The British Academy is seeking proposals for its Early Childhood Education Programme to support research geared towards informing policy-making in the education and broader learning domain.
Aims
- Early childhood is a critical stage of development that forms the foundation for a child’s future learning and well-being. Research demonstrates that there are larger returns to investing in a child’s early years than any other time in their development. However, more than 250 million children under five years of age in developing countries still do not reach their developmental potential.
- The projects funding under this programme aim to provide critical knowledge to inform policy-making in the education and broader learning domain, while recognising the necessary interplay of education with health, nutrition, gender equality and other disciplines and sectors.
Focus Areas
- Enhancing their understanding of how and why education interventions (formal and / or informal including community-based, parenting and caring) work within their current and historical contexts, whether impact lasts (and how this is understood locally), and how this could be replicated in different circumstances and at scale.
- Investigating how child development outcomes are impacted by the learning cultures and environments which children are exposed to that are often complex and varied. This is understood in a cross-sectoral and diverse way, so not simply as schooling but broadly, and including, the underlying political economy and historical context in which education takes place.
Value and duration
Projects must be 21 months in duration, with a maximum value of £300,000 (and will be offered on a 100% full economic cost basis). All projects must begin on 9 September 2019.
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
Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy’s Grant Management System (GMS) given on the website.
For more information, please visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/early-childhood-education