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

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

Closing date: 25 November 2020

The British Academy Summer Showcase 2021

Closing date: 25 November 2020

Virtual Sandpits

Closing date: 16 December 2020

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers 2021

Closing date: 16 December 2020

Neil Ker Memorial Fund

Closing date: 13 January 2021

Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund

Closing date: 13 January 2021

Education Research in Conflict and Crisis – Bilateral Research Chairs

Closing date: 20 January 2021

British Academy Conferences

Closing date: 27 January 2021

Status

Career Stages

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Wolfson Research Professorships

Honor Frost Foundation

BA/Jisc Grants for Digital Research in the Humanities

BA Rising Star Engagement Awards

Global Challenges Research Fund Challenge-led Grants

Jordan – UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability

Special Research Grants: COVID-19

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.

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

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.

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.

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.

Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges 2020

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers 2021

This programme is for early career researchers who wish to conduct research in Japan.

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.

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

The British Academy / Wolfson Fellowships

The British Academy Summer Showcase 2021

Virtual Sandpits

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers 2021

Neil Ker Memorial Fund

Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund

Education Research in Conflict and Crisis – Bilateral Research Chairs

British Academy Conferences

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