British Academy Talent Development Awards, 2025-26

Notify Faculty of intention to apply before: 10 September 2025, 17:00 BST

Funder deadline: 08 October 2025, 17:00 BST

The purpose of the scheme is to enable researchers to build their skills and capacities in core areas to develop their current and future research. This includes core areas like quantitative skills, data science, digital humanities and languages. This scheme promotes the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas, supporting innovative research methods, be that through skills development, collaboration or dissemination. 

It is also designed for researchers who wish to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their work and seek to advance their skills in a new area that may fall outside the traditional bounds of their subject discipline. It provides early-career researchers with the opportunity to develop specialist skills to support the foundations of their career. Additionally, the scheme offers mid and senior-career researchers the chance to diversify their skills and methodological approaches in response to new avenues of research interest. The scheme encourages researchers to champion their newly acquired skills within their wider community, contributing to the ongoing development of skills for future generations.

Eligibility

Eligible Lead Applicants must:

• Be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom
• In a current long-term appointment that will continue for at least as long as the period of the award at the Faculty of Law.
• Intend to pursue original, independent research in any field of study within the humanities or social sciences.

No quotas for subject areas and no thematic priorities are in this scheme. 

Applicants should have a position which is in place before expressing their interest, and should have a concrete plan for development in line with the scheme notes, based on the British Academy’s webpage for this opportunity.

Duration and Value

The maximum grant is £10,000. Awards are to enable engagement activities to take place and are not intended as time buy-out for the award-holder and cannot be used for this purpose. The awards are for a minimum period of 6 months and up to a maximum period of 12 months. The start date must be between 1-31 March 2026.

How to Apply

Once you have expressed your interest by the below deadline and worked with a research facilitator, applications must be submitted online using the British Academy's Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®. The deadline for submissions and is 08 October 2025, 17:00 BST. Further details are available on the British Academy’s webpage for this opportunity.

Deadlines:

Expressions of Interest: 10 September 2025, 17:00 BST (please e-mail research@law.ox.ac.uk before this deadline)

Submit draft application to Research Services: 01 October 2024, 12:00 BST

Submit final application to British Academy: 08 October 2025, 17:00 BST

For any questions, please write to research@law.ox.ac.uk