The British Academy announces major new Innovation Fellowships scheme for Early and Mid-Career academics
The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. The Innovation Fellowships scheme is a dual-route scheme designed to enable researchers in the humanities and social sciences to partner with organisations and business in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors in order to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions.
Both routes require an established researcher to work with a UK-based partner organisation on a specified policy or societal challenge that contributes to the aims of the scheme for a period of up to one year.
Route A: Researcher-led
The British Academy is inviting applications for funding for a researcher-led Innovation Fellowship (Route A), through which applicants must apply with a partner which they have identified.
- Scheme opens date: 13 October 2021
- Application Deadline: 8 December 2021 – 17:00 GMT
Starting period of award: no earlier than 1 March 2022 and no later than 31 March 2022
Duration of award: awards can be held for a minimum period of six months and up to a maximum period of 12 months.
Level of award: Route A (Researcher-led) awards will have a maximum award value of £120,000 on a Full Economic Costing (FEC) basis. The Lead Applicant must commit between 0.4 and 0.8 FTE time to the Fellowship.
More information available here:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/innovation-fellowships-scheme-route-a-researcher-led/