British Academy Special Funds

The British Academy has a number of special funds, from which grants are made for particular and restricted purposes. The majority of these funds are administered through the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme.

Small Research Grants

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British Accounting and Finance Association

For research into Accounting and Finance, broadly interpreted to cover all aspects of historical and contemporary research on relevant subjects

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

For co-funded collaborative grants between scholars in the UK and in China in any field of the humanities or social sciences. This partnership co-funds up to two Small Research Grants in the summer round of applications.

EY

To support research in the fields of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies and their potential disruptive impact on trust, sustainability, future talent needs and broader issues relating to organisational or societal transformation.

Honor Frost Foundation

Research in the fields of maritime archaeology including shipwrecks, submerged landscapes, maritime ethnography, cultural heritage, research relating to outreach and community engagement with maritime archaeology etc.

Journal of Moral Education Trust

Research in the fields of moral education, moral psychology, moral philosophy and ethics, Civics and citizenship education and subjects bearing on our understanding of how human beings engage or disengage with moral life.

Leverhulme Trust

The Trust seeks to fund outstanding scholarship, while maintaining a distinctive role within the research funding landscape.

National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan

For co-funded collaborative grants between scholars in the UK and in Taiwan in any field of the humanities or social sciences. This partnership co-funds up to two Small Research Grants in the autumn round of applications.

Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

For philosophical research and enquiry into education, as broadly understood.

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS)

For co-funded collaborative grants between scholars in the UK and in China in any field of the humanities or social sciences. This partnership co-funds up to two Small Research Grants in the summer round of applications.

Sino-British Fellowship Trust

For individual or co-operative research projects in Britain or China

Society for the Advancement of Management Studies

For the support of research in Management and Business Studies

Wellcome Trust

For research in the field of health and wellbeing.

Endowed Funds

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The British Academy also has a number of endowed funds, from which grants are made for particular and restricted purposes. Minimal funds are available in the autumn round only.

William Hepburn Buckler Memorial Fund

Research in the history and antiquities of Asia Minor and Cyprus in the classical Greek, Roman, or Byzantine periods.

Albert Reckitt Archaeological Fund

Archaeological exploration and excavation of ancient sites in any part of the world.

44th International Congress of Americanists

Research involving travel to/from Latin America.

Ancient Persia Fund

Research in the study of Ancient Persia and related areas in Central Asia in the period before the coming of Islam.

Elisabeth Barker Fund

Research in the field of recent European history, particularly the history of central and eastern Europe.

Browning Fund

Research, or its publication, in the field of British history in the early modern period and particularly the 17th Century.

Gertrude Caton-Thompson Fund

Archaeological research, in the field or in publication, by a Fellow of the British Academy.

Neville Chittick Fund

Archaeological research and discovery.

Marc Fitch Fund

Research in any area of the humanities or social sciences.

Elie Kedourie Memorial Fund

Research in the study of Middle Eastern and modern European history, and the history of political thought.

J R Moir Fund

Research in the field of scientific archaeology.

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