Mid-Career Fellowships

The Mid-Career Fellowships are designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

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

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.

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

14 Aug 2020

Economists warn abrupt and premature lockdown lift risks higher death toll and double-dip recession

Two Fellows of the British Academy contribute to a report for DELVE on how economic analysis can be used in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis.

13 Aug 2020

The British Academy responds to 2020 A levels data

With the release today of this year’s A level results, the British Academy warns that the continuing decline in the number of students in England taking ‘other languages’ poses significant risk to the UK’s linguistic capacity – a key component in trade, soft power and social cohesion

12 Aug 2020

The British Academy publishes response to UK Government’s R&D Roadmap

The British Academy today publishes its response to the Government’s Research & Development (R&D) Roadmap, welcoming its commitment to a host of ambitious research and innovation objectives.