British Academy. Funding Call – Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2025

The British Academy is inviting proposals from UK-based researchers working with international partners wishing to develop interdisciplinary projects involving both the humanities and the social sciences on the theme of ‘Just Transitions’.

Aims

The purpose of each project will be to develop new international research in the humanities and social sciences, to further our understanding of just transitions. Research may be problem-focused, creatively innovative and exploratory, and should bring together relevant disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, where appropriate, for maximum impact/effect. The Academy expects all applications to fundamentally involve and integrate both the humanities and social sciences. The Academy particularly encourages applications led from the humanities.

The Academy is interested in projects of an interdisciplinary nature that go beyond the day-to-day matters that this theme might engender, and instead focus on the deeper and more long-term issues of just transitions. The Academy expects awards under the programme to engage deeply with the values, heritage, justice, languages, vocabularies, traditions, cultures, literatures, histories and self-understandings that are critical to an effective approach on this topic and their historical development. The Academy sees this broad scope as essential in bringing together the range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences which are required for an award under this programme.

The Academy envisages that the awards made through the programme will:

• By such understandings of ‘Just Transitions’ bring to bear a deeper, more nuanced and historically aware thinking to the topic;

• Identify the contributions that could be made to international and national knowledge exchange, practice and policy development in this area and what lessons can be learnt to navigate any future landscape(s);

• Develop ways of communicating and collaborating in cross-disciplinary and multilingual working, in partnership with colleagues internationally.

Eligibility requirements

The Principal Investigator (PI) must be a researcher from the humanities and social sciences and be based at an eligible UK university or research institute. The PI must be of postdoctoral or above status (or have equivalent research experience). The involvement of co-applicants based overseas is required. It is required that among the PI and co-applicant(s) there is a range of disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences.

Value and duration

The Academy offers awards of up to £300,000 for 24 months in duration with Full Economic Costing (FEC) at 80 per cent. Projects must begin in March/April 2025 and finish in March/April 2027.

Application process

Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy’s Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®.

The deadline for submissions and UK institutional approval is 18 September 2024, 17:00 (BST).

Contact details

Email: internationalchallenges@thebritishacademy.ac.uk