Funding

The British Academy provides a variety of grants and fellowships to support academic research, career development and wider engagement across the full range of the humanities and social sciences. Funding opportunities cover UK and international research from the postdoctoral level upwards, supporting the best ideas, individuals and intellectual resources.

Open for applications

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2021

Closing date: 21 October 2020

APEX Awards

Closing date: 29 October 2020

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

Closing date: 11 November 2020

Writing Workshops

Closing date: 11 November 2020

BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

Closing date: 18 November 2020

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Closing date: 25 November 2020

Education Research in Conflict and Crisis – Bilateral Research Chairs

Closing date: 20 January 2021

Career stages

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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.

Education Research in Conflict and Crisis – Bilateral Research Chairs

APEX Awards

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

Writing Workshops

The intention of the Writing Workshops is to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, including international journals, and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals.

BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

The BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a significant piece of research, through sustained period of leave for one year.

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2021

The programme aims to support projects which engage with questions concerning the relationship between expertise, public understanding and policy delivery internationally, and highlight the importance of collaboration between communities of practice, disciplines, capacities and borders.

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

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.

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

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.

Funding

Open for applications

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2021

APEX Awards

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

Writing Workshops

BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Education Research in Conflict and Crisis – Bilateral Research Chairs

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