The British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
Earliest start date: 1 Sep 2024
Scheme opens date: 5 Jul 2023
Deadline date: 23 Aug 2023 – 17:00 BST
Duration of award: Varies
The British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
The Mid-Career Fellowships are designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences. Funding status: Open for applications. Career stage: Early-career, Established researcher, Mid-career, Postdoctoral or equivalent research
Aim of the award: The British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
The aim of the scheme is to allow successful applicants to obtain time freed from normal teaching and administrative commitments. The time bought by the scheme should be devoted to the completion of a major piece of research, and the Academy will also look for evidence of a clear commitment to a strategy of public engagement with and communication of the results of the research during the period of the Fellowship.
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Scope of the award
The awards support outstanding individual researchers and outstanding communicators who will promote public engagement and understanding of the humanities and social sciences. Applicants will be asked in their proposal to set out specific plans for the dissemination of their research to a broad audience, in addition to publication in the usual academic press and journals. Awards will be judged both on the excellence of the research proposed and on the capacity of the applicant to communicate with a broad audience. Applicants are invited to indicate ways in which their proposed programme will contribute to advances in understanding, including public understanding, in their subject area and to the identification of appropriate strategic priorities in the social sciences and humanities.
Eligibility: The British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
These Fellowships are awards to individuals employed at UK universities or other UK institutions of higher education, and the Academy is looking particularly to support mid-career scholars. The Academy takes no account of an applicant’s physical age or current status in determining eligibility for these awards. Rather, these awards are intended primarily to provide opportunities for scholars who have already published works of intellectual distinction or have established a significant track record as an excellent communicator and ‘champion’ in their field, and who are normally within no more than 15 years from the award of their doctorate. In considering eligibility, the Academy will make due allowance for applicants who have had career breaks, and for established scholars who do not have doctorates.
Level of grant: The British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
These Fellowships are covered under the Full Economic Costing (FEC) regime, but the Academy’s contribution to the salary of the Mid-Career Fellow will be capped at an upper limit of £80,000. It is not expected that the total value of an award will exceed £152,000 (BA contribution to FEC). Awards can be held over a minimum of 6 months and a maximum of 12 months.
Aim of the Scheme
1. Through this scheme, the Academy intends to both support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding of and engagement with the humanities and social sciences. The primary aim of the scheme is, therefore, to allow successful applicants to obtain time freed from their normal commitments.
2. The time bought by the scheme should be devoted to the completion of a major piece of research. In addition, the Academy will look for evidence of a clear commitment to a strategy of public engagement and communication of the research outcomes during the period of the Fellowship. The scheme thus contributes to the Academy’s strategic commitment to the support of ideas, individuals and intellectual resources and to public engagement. Awards will be judged both on the quality of the research proposed and on the capacity of the applicant to communicate with abroad audience.
Applicants are invited to indicate ways in which their proposed programme will contribute to advances in understanding, including public understanding, of their subject area and to the identification of appropriate strategic priorities in the social sciences and humanities. The Fellowships are tenable for a period of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months beginning in the autumn of 2023. The earliest start date is 1 September 2024 and the latest start date is 1 January 2025.
Financial Basis of the Scheme: The British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
3. The Mid-Career Fellowships are covered under the Full Economic Costing (FEC) regime, and no spending can take place outside of the timeframe of the Fellowship. The primary purpose of this scheme is to buy out 100% of the time of the researcher awarded the Fellowship. The Academy’s contribution to the Directly Incurred expense of the Principal Investigator’s salary cost will be capped at a maximum contribution of £80,000 at 80% FEC. The total value of the Fellowship, including Directly Incurred Salary, Directly Incurred Research Expenses, Directly Allocated (Estate Costs) and Indirect Costs is not expected to exceed £190,000 at 100% FEC. The Academy’s contribution to this is therefore not expected to exceed £152,000 at 80% FEC. The Research Costs element of the Fellowship is limited to a maximum of £10,000 at 100% FEC, i.e. an Academy contribution of £8,000. The total Directly Incurred cost (which includes the award holder’s salary and Research Costs) is limited to £100,000 at 100% FEC, i.e. an Academy contribution of £80,000.
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