British Academy Talent Development Awards

Deadline: 20 October 2021

The British Academy has been funded by the UK government's Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to support a pilot of a new scheme of Talent Development Awards, aimed at promoting 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. 

The scheme is intended for established researchers in the humanities and social sciences who wish to experiment with new quantitative methods, or with novel methods and vehicles for teaching languages in Higher Education. The awards will be particularly valuable to researchers wishing to pilot new methods and approaches in order to apply for larger grants in the longer term or develop new international partnerships. 

Eligibility
Eligible applicants for this scheme must be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom with a current long-term appointment that will continue for at least as long as the period of the award at a UK institution (HEI or IRO). Applicants should be intending to pursue original, independent research in any field of study within the humanities or social sciences. 

Award Specifications
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. 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.