Funding

Open for applications

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2022

Closing date: 29 September 2021

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

Closing date: 6 October 2021

Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Closing date: 6 October 2021

Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally

Closing date: 6 October 2021

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

Closing date: 6 October 2021

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Closing date: 14 October 2021

Talent Development Awards

Closing date: 20 October 2021

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

Closing date: 10 November 2021

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

Closing date: 24 November 2021

Funding schemes schedule 2021-22

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 January 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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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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 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.

Newton International Fellowships

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2022

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.

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.

British Academy and Nuffield Foundation Collaboration on Understanding Communities

The British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation invite applications from practitioners, policymakers and early and mid-career researchers across the UK to participate in a research and policy innovation workshop and develop innovative and interdisciplinary research proposals that advance our organisations’ shared interest in enhancing people’s lives in the context of …

Newton Fund: reciprocal schemes

BA Rising Star Engagement Awards

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.

Education Research in Conflict and Crisis – Bilateral Research Chairs

The British Academy is inviting proposals to support bilateral partnership research chairs delivering a programme of institutional strengthening on education research in conflict and crisis.

Funding

Open for applications

Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2022

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

Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally

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

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Talent Development Awards

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

Funding schemes schedule 2021-22

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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Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research 2022

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

Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific

Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally

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

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Talent Development Awards

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

CIFAR and the British Academy Virtual Knowledge Frontiers Symposium

Funding schemes schedule 2021-22

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