British Academy Launch Innovation Fellowships Scheme
The British Academy has been funded by the UK government, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to support a pilot of a new scheme, the Innovation Fellowships.
The Innovation Fellowships scheme will provide funding and support for established early-career and mid-career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to partner with organisations and business in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors, to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions.
These Fellowships will forge innovative place-based partnerships to create new intellectual, cultural, community and economic opportunities that will address challenges around economic recovery, societal or policy concerns and bring innovations (including digital and data innovation) into a breadth of sectors.
The Innovation Fellowships scheme has two routes:
- Route A: Researcher-led
- Route B: Policy-led.
This call is inviting applications for funding for a researcher-led Innovation Fellowship (Route A), through which applicants must apply with a partner which they have identified. A future call will be annouced to invite applications for a policy-led Innovation Fellowship (Route B) through which applicants will work with one of the Academy’s named policy partners.
Applicants must be an early-career or mid-career researcher based at an institution in the UK (e.g. a Higher Education Institution [HEI] or Independent Research Organisation [IRO]), from disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Lead Applicant must commit between 0.4 and 0.8 FTE time to the Fellowship, providing justification for the time percentage as part of the application, especially if the time commitment is below 0.5 FTE.
Route A (Researcher-led) awards will have a maximum award value of £120,000 on a Full Economic Costing (FEC) basis. All of the grants awarded are expected to be used 100% for the purposes specified in the application and agreed in the award-letter.
Awards can be held for a minimum period of six months and up to a maximum period of 12 months.
Awards must start no earlier than 1 March 2022 and no later than 31 March 2022
Applications must be submitted online via the British Academy Flexi-Grant® Grant Management System (GMS) by the deadline 8 December 2021 (5pm UK time).