Name of the Event: British Academy’s Global Professorships 2024
Date: 26 March 2025 – 30 September 2025
Place: The British Academy, UK
Last Date of Application: 23 October 2024
Link to Apply:
The British Academy’s Global Professorships are large investigator-led awards to attract internationally recognised established scholars to work in the United Kingdom, to undertake new, coherent and cutting-edge research projects. With the Global Professorships, the Academy is looking to support researchers who are proposing ambitious, beyond the state-of-the-art research that breaks new ground.
Eligibility Requirements:
-
Grants are available to mid-career and senior researchers in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences (recognised in their field or with exceptional promise) who are currently employed outside the United Kingdom, on a permanent contract (which may be part-time or full-time) or, if temporary, would normally be a contract that will not end during the course of the grant. Any exceptions must be expressly agreed with the Academy prior to the application being submitted for such an application to be considered eligible.
-
Applicants must hold a doctoral degree (or have equivalent research experience).
-
PIs may not hold more than one British Academy award of a comparable nature at any one time.
-
An individual cannot be the PI on more than one bid under this Programme, including through different host institutions.
-
Applicants must be available to take up an unpaid leave of absence, a long-term secondment or employment at an eligible UK institution. If this is unclear from an applicant’s national setting, then the Academy welcomes communication with applicants prior to applications being submitted. Eligible institutions include but are not limited to the British International Research Institutes.
-
Awards are only available to individuals, to be held in an institutional context. Co-applicants are not permitted.
-
Awards will not be made retrospectively: this means that the work for which support is requested must not have commenced before the award is announced. Applications must be for new research ideas that are coherent on their own and are cutting-edge.
-
Applicants are required to provide a formal statement of support from a senior member of their proposed host institution in the UK (normally expected to be a Pro-Vice-Chancellor or equivalent, or at minimum Head of Department/Faculty/Institute).
Value and duration:
Awards are expected to run for four years each from a starting date to be agreed with the British Academy. The starting date must not be before 26 March 2025 – 30 September 2025.
The Academy will provide up to £900,000 per award.
Application Process:
Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy’s Grant Management System, Flexi-Grant®.
We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers at – internationalgrants@thebritishacademy.ac.uk