The British Academy: Global Convening Programmes

Research

What?

The programme aims to provide significant opportunities for researchers in the UK and internationally across the humanities and social sciences globally to network, open new fields of inquiry, harness research to address these challenges aiming to catalyse change in industry, practice, policy and society, and support collaborative exploration across disciplines and borders. 

This programme is a new style of activity for the Academy’s international engagement. These are major three-year programmes of internationally convened researchers that are problem or challenge-focused and highly interdisciplinary. Awards will be for around £500,000 per annum each.

The Academy is aiming to support international programmes that convene researchers internationally together over three years to develop sustained engagement across disciplines and borders. The Academy envisages the awards made through this call will excel in achieving the following expectations:

• An ambitious, beyond the state-of-the-art programme that breaks new ground, that will achieve a significant change related to the policy-related problem/challenge focused on, at a global level.
• An internationally convened body of researchers with engagement across multiple, and potentially all, regions of the world. The programme will develop a diverse and equitable international partnership that is transparent and based on mutual respect.
• A highly interdisciplinary body of researchers that includes both the humanities and the social sciences at its core and may include other disciplines beyond.
• A novel exchange of ideas and co-creation of knowledge with wider stakeholders through identifying areas with the Academy to catalyse change in and translate knowledge with industry, practice, policy and society.

Applications must be related to the themes below of Just Transitions, What is a good city?, Global (Dis)Order. These are to provide a framing for the call. The Academy wishes to encourage novel thinking rather than offering a pre-designed idea of the challenge. The onus is on the applicants to convince the Academy that their applications bring genuine added value to addressing the Call. More information on these themes can be found on the website of the British Academy.

Who?

Each Expression of Interest must include a core team of 6-8 researchers based in the UK and internationally. This core team must include two programme leads. One of these must be based in the UK. In the wider team, there must be at least four participants not based in the UK.

This core team must include researchers from multiple disciplines. This must include researchers in both the humanities and social sciences.

Application?

The timetable for the application process is as follows:
• Expressions of Interest Deadline: 6 July 2022 (17.00, UK time)
• Invitations to 2nd Stage Communicated: August 2022
• In-person Workshops at the Academy: September - October 2022
• Final Proposal Deadline: 9 November 2022 (17.00, UK time)
• Final Outcome Communicated: by end of 2022

All applicants must register in the British Academy's online Flexi-Grant system. 

More information?

Please see the website of the British Academy, as well as the Guidance notes, for more information.

Contact research@uhasselt.be if you are planning on submitting an application.

Deadline

06.07.2022

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail annelies.stockmans@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211268070