Postdoctoral Fellowships

Closing date: 14 October 2020

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2021

Closing date: 21 October 2020

This programme provides UK-based researchers at any career stage, and active in any discipline within the social sciences and the humanities, with an opportunity to develop and lead international interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with colleagues from the natural, engineering and/or medical sciences.

APEX Awards

Closing date: 29 October 2020

The APEX awards are designed to promote collaboration across academic disciplines through the support of world-leading interdisciplinary research projects.

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

Closing date: 11 November 2020

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provided to cover the cost of the expenses arising from a defined research project.

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Closing date: 25 November 2020

These awards are designed to support early-career researchers who show exceptional talent in both research and public engagement, emphasising and demonstrating the importance of academic research and creative thought at a time of rapid political and societal change.

Europe on the Horizon: Examining the Value of European Research Collaboration

Association to Erasmus: Challenges and Opportunities

Association with European Union Framework Programmes for Research & Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities

22 Sep 2020

UK humanities and social sciences top table in European funding competition

UK-based award holders in the humanities and social sciences won more Starting Grants for early-career researchers than any other country in Europe.

7 Sep 2020

The British Academy announces Shortlist for The Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020

The British Academy’s international non-fiction book prize announes a global shortlist of five writers exploring the legacies of Empire around the world, including the plight and resistance of indigenous peoples, and the new understanding of human culture pioneered by the groundbreaking anthropologists of the early 20th century.

2 Sep 2020

Latest round of APEX awards to support interdisciplinary research and public engagement

Eight researchers and their collaborators are today awarded funding by learned societies including the British Academy to pursue collaborative research partnerships drawing on sciences, engineering and the humanities and social sciences.