Future call in commercialisation funding via SHAPE Catalyst Programme
The new programme will support researchers within these disciplines to develop and bring new products, processes, services and experiences to market.
How it will work
At least three rounds of commercialisation funding will be available from a total pot of £2.7 million. Expressions of interest for round one will open in June 2023.
This is open to individuals or teams from UK research organisations with innovative, ambitious social science, arts and humanities-based ideas that can sustain economic or non-economic impact through the commercialisation of research.
There will be up to 25 awards of £50,000 each round to teams or individuals to develop their social science, arts and humanities-based research insights into scalable products, processes, service or experience innovations.
Workshops
Aspect Research Commercialisation (ARC) will run application workshops from June 2023. These will help potential applicants understand the scope of the programme and begin applying commercialisation thinking to their research.
Funding and training
Award holders will receive:
- up to £50,000 from the SHAPE Catalyst programme to fund commercialisation activities
- a virtual training bootcamp, led by industry experts, to develop key entrepreneurial skills
- specialised, sector specific training
- access to key experts who have been there before, including investors and networks
- dedicated mentorship support to help validate their idea, develop the business model, and support their pitch for further funding or investment
About the SHAPE Catalyst
The ESRC and AHRC-funded £3.9 million SHAPE Catalyst will run from 2023 to 2026.
Working in partnership with ARC, they are looking for individuals or teams with innovative, ambitious social science, arts and humanities ideas that can sustain economic or non-economic impact through the commercialisation.
Application workshops for round one of the SHAPE Catalyst will start in June 2023
Please visit UKRI’s website for further information: £4 million for research commercialisation to benefit UK – UKRI
Discussions around applications to the programme should be directed to Jonny Gray, Business Development Manager.
I write to you to seek a sabbatical position with your institution, with you as my host.
I am a Full Professor in English Language & Literature in English at North-West University and formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Limpopo, South Africa. I am currently Deputy Director in the School for Literature and Language Education. My research interests are in nation and narration, critical literary theory, cultural metissage and applied language studies, especially curriculum renewal through the decolonisation project, curriculum theory and pedagogics of teaching English. I am a National Research Foundation (NRF) C rated researcher with articles in excess of 35 in national and international journals, 12 book chapters, 6 co-edited books on the dynamics of teacher education, quality education and an edited book on auto/biography. My latest article on James Baldwin extends my contribution to debates on nation and narration, the matrices of identity and cultures in imagining the postcolonial state.
I would like to produce a monograph during my tenure on Southern African Literature/Chenjerai Hove and my attachment to your university would allow me the space for such a project.
Kindly advise on modalities for such international co-operation and if you would be willing to host me.
In research and the academy, I am
Muchativugwa Liberty Hove
Hi Muchativugwa,
Thank you for your comment. You have come to the Business School so it might be worth getting in touch with the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics: elll@ncl.ac.uk. They may be better suited to helping with your query.
Many thanks
Rosie