British Academy Launches Talent Development Awards
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 of Talent Development Awards.
The aim of the Talent Development Awards is to promote the building of skills and capacities for current and future generations, including in core areas like quantitative skills, interdisciplinarity, data science, digital humanities and languages. This scheme aims to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK based researchers, promoting innovative research methods, be that through skills development, collaboration or dissemination.
The overarching aims of the scheme are to invest in UK talent and skills and as a result to contribute to the development and delivery of high quality regional, national and international research by:
- Raising the quality of advanced quantitative and / or data science skills used in research
- Creating new opportunities for knowledge and skills to exchange across disciplines and sectors
- Promoting language learning and the transferable skills that language learning provides.
The scheme is intended for established researchers in the humanities and social sciences with a permanent or long-term contract at a UK-based HEI or IRO who wish to experiment with new quantitative methods through a variety of means, or to experiment with methods and vehicles for teaching languages in Higher Education.
Applicants should be intending to pursue original, independent research in any field of study within the humanities or social sciences. There are no quotas for individual subject areas and no thematic priorities.
Grants of up to a maximum £10,000 are available. This scheme is not offered on a Full Economic Costing (FEC) basis, and all of the grants awarded are expected to be used 100% for the purposes specified in the application.
The awards are for a fixed period of one year, starting from no earlier than 1 January 2022 and no later than 31 March 2022.
Applications must be submitted online by the deadline 20 October 2021 (17:00 UK time).