The British Academy: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2027: Relationship between expertise, public understanding and policy delivery internationally

Projects will be led by UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences working with international partners and wishing to develop genuinely interdisciplinary projects that range across all SHAPE (social sciences, humanities and the arts) and STEM disciplines on the theme of Mobilities.

The purpose of each project will be to develop new international research led by and grounded in the humanities and/or social sciences, to further understanding of mobilities. Genuinely productive and integral interdisciplinarity is a requirement, with the expectation that this will involve collaboration across disciplines. The collaboration can include any SHAPE or STEM discipline as long as the research is led by and grounded in the humanities and/or social sciences.

The Academy requires applications to address one or more of the following topic areas:

* People, Materials and Things: Research that understands the movement of people and explores and interrogates the movement of materials. This includes both movement across geographical space as well as movement over time.

* Ideas, Narratives and Innovation: Research that produces new insights for understanding the context in which ideas, stories and technological developments spread, and how change is both driven by such developments and by the contexts and connections in which they happen. This includes both movement across geographical space as well as movement through a society such as the spread of a narrative, political idea or a protest movement through a community.

The Principal Investigator (PI) must be a researcher from the humanities and social sciences and be based at an eligible UK university or research institute.  The involvement of Co-Applicants based overseas is required.

Funding: up to £300,000 over 2 years.

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/knowledge-frontiers-international-interdisciplinary-research/