British Academy - Special Research Grants, Covid-19
Funder deadline: 5pm Wednesday 27th May 2020
The British Academy is inviting humanities and social science researchers to bring their specific insights to bear on the global health pandemic resulting from COVID-19. Across health, social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals, communities, and society in the UK and globally. The economic, social and cultural effects are far reaching.
Purpose of the scheme
Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities are encouarged to pursue primary and secondary research to explore issues such as:
- ethical and behavioural issues raised by the pandemic;
- implications of migration on disease transmission;
- feasibility and effectiveness of policy responses aimed at preventing or containing COVID-19, including secondary impacts such as school closures, quarantine etc;
- past experience of epidemics, pandemics and quarantine;
- communication of risk to the wider public;
- behavioural studies understanding how people have been affected, both mentally and physically by living through the pandemic;
- community responses to crisis;
- access and equity to essential services, including digital communications and technologies;
- translation and analysis of information for multilingual populations;
- role of arts and culture in community building, recovery and resilience;
- strategies to combat misinformation;
- impacts on socio-economically disadvantaged groups.
This subset of examples is not exhaustive! Full call details are available online.
Eligibility criteria apply. The BA will fund project costs up to £10k and applications are to be made on the FlexiGrant system. Projects can start from 1 July 2020, subject to institutional approval, and can last up to 24 months.
- Funder deadline: 5pm, 27th May 2020
- Law Faculty deadline for first draft for review: 9am, 13th May 2020
- Law Faculty deadline for initial expression of interest: 9am 6th May 2020 by email to the Research Support Team.