The British Academy and the Royal Irish Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: The Future – seed funding awards 2023

The symposium invited participants to think of ‘the Future’ across different times and contexts to explore and address the need for creative interventions in social and environmental crises, how communities of the past have managed (or otherwise) rapid social upheaval and technological change, and whether we can humanise the digital future.

Dr Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University; Dr Matthew Barnfield, University of Essex; Dr Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University

Compare and contrast how nationalist-separatist parties today in Quebec, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Nothern Ireland engage with nation-state parliaments in Cananda, the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Spain


Dr Stuart Henderson, Ulster University; Dr Brenda McNally, Dublin City University; Dr Rosie Everett, Northumbria University; Dr Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rothamsted Research

Land-use futures in farming communites in the UK and Ireland


Dr Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rothamsted Research; Dr Danny Marks, Dublin City University

Joint comparative study of the political economy of emission reductions of the livestock industry in the United Kingdon and Ireland


Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and islands; Dr Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge; Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin

The lifecycle of cardboard, the most quotidian, ubiquitious of materials, and its implications for environmental histories and futures


Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla, University of Liverpool; Dr Ailbhe McDaid, University College Cork; Dr Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London

Vocabularies of Time


Dr Jade French, Loughborough University; Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Sarah Bezan, University College Cork

Thinking Through Lichen


Dr Elizabeth A Faulkner Keele University; Dr Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University; Dr Mary Robinson, Newcastle University; Dr Ailbhe McDaid, University College Cork

A study of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities within Ireland and the United Kingdom Law, Policy and Practise


Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla, University of Liverpool; Dr Sarah Bezan, University College Cork; Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin; Dr Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge, Dr Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London; Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and the Islands; Dr Jade French, Loughborough University

The Apocalyptic Quotidian: The Everyday Crises of Environments

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