Deadline: 5-Oct-21
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeking applications for its Collaborative Knowledge Exchange Projects.
Focus Areas
Projects may focus on (but are not limited to):
- connecting local and regional policymakers with arts and humanities research relevant to place, which will help to drive socio-economic, cultural, environmental, heritage, health and other benefits into more parts of the country
- deploying researchers into local areas to support capability on local issues, including
- supporting local governments in developing their long-term strategies, that in turn will better position them to take advantage of central government funding opportunities
- capturing, amplifying and sharing nuanced local knowledge, including cultural knowledge of stakeholders and town governance structures, to inform decision-making
- helping deliver local impacts in areas with no easy access to universities or research and innovation assets
- helping to develop skills and build capacity in relevant stakeholders to access and make use of arts and humanities research in the future
- building the knowledge base and identifying knowledge gaps in AHRC’s research portfolio, while projects are expected to focus on addressing issues where there is already a sufficient amount of evidence, they may also help identify knowledge gaps.
Funding Information
- Your project’s full economic cost can be up to £125,000. AHRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost.
What they are looking for?
- Applications are invited for 12-month collaborative knowledge exchange and translational research projects to inform the strategic direction and planning of local and regional authorities with an emphasis on the contribution of the arts and humanities to local regeneration and development. The strategic direction may include local and regional authorities’ plans to access other place-based (or other relevant) funding for the benefit of local or regional communities and economies.
- Applications must not be focused on delivery of new research but rather on the application of existing work and resources in new contexts which meet the aims of this opportunity.
- Projects are expected to improve access to arts and humanities research expertise with a view to informing and supporting the development of plans for local regeneration. This includes helping to build capacity within local authorities to make successful bids for local regeneration funding. They would expect to see these related to local cultural assets and their role in local growth and development. You would also be welcome to bring in other assets relevant to the regeneration location.
- Applicants are encouraged to work not only with local authorities in the immediate vicinity of their universities, but to include a wider regional scope and focus on places that would benefit most from collaboration. They would also welcome applications that include collaborations between universities with differing levels of experience of engagement with their local areas and regions.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications must build on existing arts and humanities research. There is no requirement that the original research was funded by AHRC, but it must be research which would fall primarily within the remit of AHRC.
- Applicants are encouraged to read the guidance on collaborating organisations and project partners of the AHRC research funding guide and to consider how best to work with different stakeholders to enable their full participation.
- You must be a UK researcher eligible for AHRC funding.
- You must:
- collaborate with others
- engage with a broad range of local stakeholders.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/collaborative-knowledge-exchange-projects-on-the-theme-of-place/