Funding

Open for applications

Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners

Closing date: 27 October 2021

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

Closing date: 10 November 2021

BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

Closing date: 17 November 2021

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

Closing date: 24 November 2021

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Closing date: 24 November 2021

Innovation Fellowships Scheme – Route A: Researcher-led

Closing date: 8 December 2021

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2022

Closing date: 8 December 2021

The British Academy / Wolfson Research Professorships

Closing date: 8 December 2021

Funding schemes schedule 2021-22

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Earliest start date 1 September 2022

Deadline date: 24 November 2021 - 17:00 GMT

Mid-Career Fellowships

Outline stage: 21 July 2021 - 15 September 2021

Results by November 2021

Second stage: 25 November 2021 - 5 January 2022

Results by: April 2022

COVID-19 Recovery: Building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK

Call open: 15 September 2021 - 6 October 2021

Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Call open: 15 September 2021 - 6 October 2021

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Outline stage: 14 July 2021 - 14 October 2021

Results by January 2022

Second stage: 12 January 2022 - 9 February 2022

Results by June 2022

Small Research Grants: two rounds annually

Call opens: 8 September 2021 - 10 November 2021

Results by April 2022

Call opens: 6 April 2022 - 1 June 2022

Result by September 2022

Senior Research Fellowships

Call opens: 6 October 2021 - 17/11/2021

Results by June 2022

Newton International fellowships

Call opens: 5 May 2021 - 16 June 2021

Results by November 2021

Wolfson Fellowships

Call opens: 22 September 2021 - 24 November 2021

Results by February 2022

Wolfson Research Professorships

Call opens: 29 September 2021 - 8 December 2021

Results by March 2022

Knowledge Frontiers

Call opens: 8 July 2021 - 29 September 2021

Results by February 2022

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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.

Talent Development Awards

The Talent Development Awards are available to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, promoting innovative research methods, be that through skills development, collaboration or dissemination.

The British Academy / Wolfson Research Professorships

Awards designed to give an opportunity for extended research leave to a small number of the most outstanding established scholars to enable them to concentrate on a significant research programme, while freed from normal teaching and administrative commitments.

Innovation Fellowships Scheme – Route A: Researcher-led

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.

British Academy Conferences

An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the Academy’s events programme.

Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners

This programme builds on the important awareness raising and promotional communications that the sector, National Contact Points, the UK Research Office in Brussels, and the Science & Innovation Network have been taking forward by providing pump priming funding to seed collaborations for applications to specific Horizon Europe calls in Pillar …

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2022

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.

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

CIFAR and the British Academy are issuing this call inviting applications for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to participate in virtual research activities on the broad theme of “What is a good city?”.

Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Ensuring just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity loss is key to supporting inclusive economies and societies in the future. This call focuses specifically on the action required in the Asia-Pacific to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, to identify the potential disruption and opportunity of decarbonising economies and …

Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally

Ensuring just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity loss is key to supporting inclusive economies and societies in the future. This call focuses specifically on action required in sectors and industries globally across supply and value chains and we expect the focus to be on key economic emitters or …

COVID-19 Recovery: building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK

The British Academy (BA), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Science & Innovation Network in the USA (SIN USA) are inviting proposals from UK and US-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences aiming to support around 10 in-depth transatlantic studies focused on UK-US vaccine engagements, including examples …

COVID-19 Recovery: building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the G7

The programme aims to facilitate global and interconnected learning about the contexts, causes and factors leading to vaccine engagement by supporting research within each country of the G7.

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.

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

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.

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

Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Innovation Fellowships Scheme – Route A: Researcher-led

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2022

The British Academy / Wolfson Research Professorships

Funding schemes schedule 2021-22

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Mid-Career Fellowships

COVID-19 Recovery: Building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK

Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Small Research Grants: two rounds annually

Senior Research Fellowships

Newton International fellowships

Wolfson Fellowships

Wolfson Research Professorships

Knowledge Frontiers

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Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners

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BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Innovation Fellowships Scheme – Route A: Researcher-led

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2022

The British Academy / Wolfson Research Professorships

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