Innovation Fellowships Scheme 2022-23 – Route B: Policy-led (Governance, Trust and Voice)

Funder Deadline: 16 Jan 2023

The British Academy is inviting applications for funding for policy-led Innovation Fellowships (Route B). Their partners for this funding call are the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).

The Innovation Fellowships Scheme will provide funding and support for established early-career and mid-career researchers the Humanities and Social Sciences to partner with organisations and business in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors, to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. 

This call will contribute to the Academy’s public policy theme of Governance, Trust and Voice, and specifically our efforts to support inclusive and evidence-based multi-level policy-making. 

Focus
The Academy and the Government Departments invite applications for Fellowships in any of the following areas:

• Levelling Up Subnational Data Project (ONS)
• R&D and Innovation Landscape (ONS)
• Integration and Communities (DLUHC)
• Local Resilience and Economic Growth (DLUHC)
• Productivity (DLUHC)
• Devolution Across the UK (DLUHC)

Eligibility
All applications require one Lead Applicant. Eligible Lead Applicants 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-based institution (e.g. a Higher Education Institution [HEI] or Independent Research Organisation [IRO]).

Applicants for the Innovation Fellowships Scheme should be intending to pursue challenges that can benefit from the contribution of Humanities or Social Sciences expertise.

Postgraduate students are not eligible to apply for grant support from the Academy, and Lead Applicants are asked to confirm in the personal details section that they are not currently working towards a PhD, nor awaiting the outcome of a viva voce examination, nor awaiting the acceptance of any corrections required by the examiners.

Applicants are required to include a supporting statement from their Head of Department on the British Academy Flexi-Grant® GMS. The BA strongly advise that you alert your Head of Department as early as possible to allow them enough time to provide their statement in the system, as the statement cannot be submitted after the application deadline. 

Please see the scheme guidance notes for more details.

Duration and Value
Awards are for a period of 12 months, with a maximum award value of £120,000 on an 80 per cent Full Economic Costing (FEC) basis. The Applicant must commit between 0.4 and 0.8 FTE time to the Fellowship. Awards must commence from 31 March 2023.

How to Apply
Applications can only be submitted online using the British Academy Flexi-Grant® Grant Management System (GMS). The deadline for submissions and UK host organisation approval is 16 January 2023 (12:00 GMT). 

Internal Deadlines:

Research Services: 9th January 2023

Application First Draft: 16th December 2022

Expression of Interest: 9th December 2022