Research Funding

Ken Emond (Head of Research Awards)Claire Pascolini-Campbell (International Officer)

The British Academy

Focus of research funding

• Ideas, Individuals and Intellectual Resources

• International engagement

• Excellence and engagement

• Aim is for complementarity with other funding bodies

• Cover career path from early career to senior, underpinned by Small Grants

Research Awards & Int’l Schemes

• Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF)• BA Rising Star Engagement Awards (BARSEAs) – NEW• Mid-Career Fellowships (MCF)• Senior Research Fellowships (SRF)• BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (SG)• Newton Advanced Fellowships (AF) - NEW• International Partnership & Mobility (IPM); and Newton

Mobility Grants (NG) - NEW• Newton International Fellowships (NIF)

Early Career

• BA Postdoctoral Fellowships• 45 awards per year across all subject areas• Career development opportunity for those within 3 years

of the award of their doctorate

• BA Rising Star Engagement Awards• Awards of up to £15k designed for engagement activities

and events – *not* funding for research activity• 34 awards made in first round

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

• Very popular scheme, funded from public funds, Leverhulme Trust

and around twenty other partnerships

• 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: over 100 HEIs in last financial year

BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

• Two rounds of competition per year

• Next round open now, closes 6 May 2015

• Awards for research to start between 1 Sept 2015 and

31 March 2016

International Funding

International Partnership and Mobility Scheme• Research partnerships between UK and researchers in Africa, East Asia,

Middle East, Latin America & Caribbean, South Asia, and Eurasia. 3-year and 1-year awards: £10,000 per year

Newton Fund Schemes• Research partnerships with Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey and

Vietnam

• Newton Mobility Grants: Up to £10,000 for one-year collaborations

• Newton Advanced Fellowships provide 1 or 2 year awards for training and development in collaboration with a UK partner. £37,000 per year

Newton International Fellowships• Funding for early-career researchers to spend two-years full time at a UK

host institution. Salary, research expenses, relocation assistance £66,000. The host institution receives 50% to support overhead costs.

RENU

Scholars at RENU Universities currently hold 95 grants and fellowships from the BA

Total number awarded since 2009: 339• Current and recent awards include Dr Jennifer Hillman, BA PDF,

University of Chester; Dr Petros Karatsareas, BA PDF, UWE; Professor Tina Miller and Dr Alexandra Wilson, Mid-Career Fellows at Oxford Brookes University; Dr Matthew Tonkin, BA Skills Acquisition Award (Birmingham City)

• Small grant award-holders include Dr Bettina Beinhoff (Anglia Ruskin) and Professor Barry Mitchell (Coventry University)

• Newton Fund award-holders include Dr Jose Ramos ((Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico) working with Dr Hugo Gaggiotti, UWE

Websites

• www.britishacademy.ac.uk

• https://egap.britac.ac.uk