Very popular scheme, funded from public funds, Leverhulme Trust and around twenty other funding sources
Awards up to £10k, tenable for up to 24 months
Commonly used for pilot studies, small-scale projects
Worldwide in scope, international partners
High priority in Academy portfolio
Wide outreach: around 100 HEIs in last financial year
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
Two rounds of competition per year
Next round planned to open in September 2016
Awards for research to start between 1 April 2017 and 31 August 2017
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants: Other Funding Partners
Honor Frost Foundation
Journal of Moral Education Trust
Modern Humanities Research Association
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
Sino-British Fellowship Trust
Sir Ernest Cassel Trust
Sir John Cass’s Foundation
Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
Academy Research Projects and Special Research Projects
Recognition of c. 50 long-term infrastructural projects
Datasets of fundamental resources
Broader implications of research for policy and practice
Occasional Call for new proposals, most recently in 2016, for Special Research Projects in Maths Anxiety and Cognitive Benefits of Language Learning
Proceedings of the British Academy
The British Academy’s flagship series, publishing themed volumes of essays
Proposals considered twice a year (deadlines September and March)
8 volumes of essays published each year
Volumes included in British Academy Scholarship Online
British Academy Conferences
A meeting of minds – help shape the future of your field with the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
NB Not an offer of funding – conferences must be planned to happen in the BA building
International
Newton Fund
The Newton Fund was announced in 2014 as part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment to promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries.
The British Academy is one of several funding bodies delivering the fund.
We offer support to international researchers through grants and fellowships schemes
Newton Fund: Mobility Grants
Applicants from Brazil; Malaysia; Mexico; South Africa; Thailand, and Turkey
One-year awards particularly suited to new collaborative partnerships for skills and knowledge transfer
Funding can include travel, accommodation and subsistence, organisation of workshops and seminars; up to a maximum of £10,000
Newton Fund: Advanced Fellowships
Supports early to mid-career international researchers
Applicants from Brazil; Mexico; South Africa; Turkey; Thailand; Malaysia; with a UK co-applicant
Work on a joint research project and career development and training activities
Funding includes salary top-up for the international applicant, research expenses, travel costs and training; amount dependent on country, but generally £37k p.a.
Dr Anne Byrne (Dept of History, Classics & Archaeology),
PDF award-holder 2015-2018, Loving the king, 1744-1789., £246,428.80
Dr Suzannah Biernoff (History of Art)
BA Small Grant award-holder 2015-16, Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement,
£3,127.00
Contacts
Research Awards Team
grants@britac.ac.uk / 020 7969 5217
posts@britac.ac.uk / 020 7969 5270
International Department
newtonfund@britac.ac.uk / 020 7969 5220
partnerships@britac.ac.uk / 020 7969 5220
overseas@britac.ac.uk / 020 7969 5220
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