Develop research for BBC platforms: New Generation Thinkers 2024 – UKRI
Develop research for BBC platforms: New Generation Thinkers 2024 – UKRI
This prestigious scheme offers early career researchers the opportunity to develop programmes for the BBC.
If selected, you’ll workshop ideas with BBC producers, get media and public engagement training, and a platform for informing and influencing public opinion, policy and practice.
You’ll be an up-and-coming early career researcher who wants to share ideas with the largest possible audience.
60 applicants will be invited to BBC workshops, from which 10 will be selected as New Generation Thinkers. Thinkers will then experience a year of focused activity and development from the BBC and AHRC.
We are looking for applications from a diversity of backgrounds and research disciplines, particularly candidates who can demonstrate:
- how one area of their research could make a strong, clearly expressed and engaging programme for Radio 3, of up to 45 minutes
- how this new research could have the potential to either change public opinion, influence policy or make a difference to people’s lives
- creativity, originality and the potential to talk and write about other areas within the arts and humanities, in an accessible and interesting manner, particularly to a wider listening audience
- that they are comfortable talking and writing about ideas from beyond their own research area, in an accessible and interesting way
- a wide range of interests through their review and description of their current research
- high standards of scholarship: clear explanations in interesting, well-written, jargon-free language, that is editorially and stylistically suitable for a BBC audience.
To get a good idea of what we’re looking for, we recommend you listen to work by previous New Generation Thinkers on the BBC website before you apply. You can also find more examples and other information about the scheme on AHRC’s New Generation Thinkers webpage.
Deadline for applications is 3 October 2023 (4pm UK time)