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Published: 26 Nov 2024 228 views
The British Academy is inviting proposals related to evidence-informed policy-making in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries.
This programme is part of the £337m International Science Partnerships Fund, which is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of the UK’s international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time. It is managed by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology and delivered by a consortium of the UK’s leading research and innovation bodies.
In the context of this call, funding from the International Science Partnerships Fund is funded by Official Development Assistance (ODA) therefore applications for this funding must be ODA-eligible.
Through this programme, the Academy wishes to develop and enhance the evidence base related to informing policymaking with research. The Academy is aware this is a broad field of research and activity with multiple intersecting and often, but not always, mutually supportive disciplinary communities and policy sectors working on the issues either from a theoretical or practice perspective. It is an important aim for the Academy to start to establish mutually reinforcing communities of practice in the longer term so duplication of effort and overly siloed research and practice is avoided.
This funding opportunity was designed to be complementary with the efforts of the Transforming Evidence Funders Network’s Research on Research Use working group. The working group has been aligning research funders’ investments across sectors, issue areas, disciplines, and geographies to support studies that build knowledge about when and under what conditions research evidence is used in policy, practice, and community decision-making—and when research use contributes to improved outcomes.
The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
| Application Deadline | 19 Feb 2025 |
| Value | £150,000 |
| Country to study | United Kingdom |
| Type | Fellowship |
| Course to study | View courses |
| Sponsor | The British Academy |
| Gender | Men and Women |
Aim The aim of this call is to support ODA-eligible international collaborations between researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the UK and those in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries on evidence-informed policymaking. Applications that are not considered ODA-eligible will not be taken forward through the assessment process.
This call is therefore aiming to respond to questions, such as the following:
The Academy is able to offer awards of up to £150,000 for 12 months in duration. The Academy expects to make at least 20 awards.
This programme will support grants in the following areas to develop this evidence base further and applications can consider interventions across one or more of a variety of mechanisms of change, including awareness and attitudes, mutual understanding and agreement, communication of and access to, interaction between policymakers and researchers, skills development, and/or structure and processes related to evidence-informed policymaking:
The Academy is looking to support awards that work in the following fields:
Successful awards will be required to work closely with the Academy in two respects. They are:
Applications must be submitted by 19 February 2025, 17:00 (GMT).
Applications can only be submitted online using the British Academy’s online Flexi-Grant® Grant Management System (GMS) system.
You can view further details about the scheme and how to submit an application on our scheme guidance page.
For more details visit: The British Academy website.
