New Knowledge Exchange funding opportunities: Social Sciences KE Fellowships – Business and Industry, Social Sciences KE Fellowships – Public and Community Engagement, OPEN Policy Fellowships
EOI deadline 20 July 2018
Expressions of interest are sought for three new Knowledge Exchange Fellowship schemes to support the development of mutually beneficial people exchange projects with a range of non-academic partners. This funding enables researchers to spend funded time embedded or visiting partners (outward) or practitioners from those organisations to come and spend a period of time at Oxford embedded with a team/department (inward) or a combination of both. The panel are looking for creative, practical and innovative proposals that engage non-academic partners in two-way sharing of learning, ideas and experiences to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes e.g. impact, future collaborations, access to data/networks, career development. See our website for examples of previous outward and inward KE Fellowship projects.
For details of how to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) can be found on the IAA website.
EOI funder deadline for all schemes: 20th July 2018, 5pm.
Faculty 1st draft review: 13th July 2018
The deadline for full proposals will be in September 2018 (exact timing TBC) and projects can run from October 2018 to July 2019. If you have any queries, please contact the Faculty's research team, or your Centre Administrator, for further advice and assistance. These schemes are funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund and are administered by the Social Sciences Division Research & Impact Team.
Social Sciences KE Fellowships – Business and Industry
The aim of this pilot is to support the development of mutually beneficial partnerships, with Business and Industry, to develop our understanding of how best to work with Business and Industry and advance the application of innovative social sciences research to address key industrial challenges. The funding can either be used to enable researchers to spend time in a business or industry setting or to support two way mutual exchange.
Open to: Oxford social sciences researchers
Possible partners: Private sector organisations; Small and medium enterprises (SMEs); Social enterprises; Industry Bodies, catalysts, or other industrial network organisations.
Max award: £25K (£100K in pot, approx. 4-6 awards)
Social Sciences KE Fellowships – Public and Community Engagement
This scheme aims to enable Fellows to develop skills and shape best practice in public and community engagement; raise the profile and recognition of public engagement with research; develop partnerships with Oxford’s local communities and communities elsewhere around the world, and create positive impacts through working together with communities and members of the public. Fellowships can either be outgoing (researchers spending time going out to work closely with partners) or incoming (public/community representatives spending time at Oxford) or mutual exchange.
Open to: Oxford social sciences researchers
Possible partners: community groups, youth groups, special interest groups, community-led initiatives, charities and NGOs, social enterprises, local authorities and other public bodies.
Max award: £25K (£50K in pot, approx. 2-5 awards)
As governments come under increasing pressure for political accountability, there is an increased demand for evidence-based policy derived from the insights of academic research. The Oxford Policy Exchange Network is a new University-wide initiative designed to support policy engagement. Successful applicants will form our first cohort of Policy Fellows under this banner. The aims of this Fellowship scheme are: to build partnerships with a view to shaping the policy agenda in global, national, and regional contexts; to support evidence-based policymaking; to develop and sustain strategic relationships with policymakers; and to improve and diversify the breadth of policy engagement at Oxford through policy partnerships.
Open to: Oxford researchers from any discipline across the University
Possible partners: local authorities and regional policymakers, national level policymakers – UK or overseas, international and intergovernmental bodies, think tanks and lobby groups, regulators, third sector policy-related organisations and public sector bodies.
Max award: £25K (£100K in pot, approx. 4-6 awards)