The British Academy is currently accepting applications for its Innovation Fellowships Scheme 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About The British Academy - Innovation Fellowships Scheme
The British Academy has been funded by the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade to support the Innovation Fellowships. The Academy is also working on this scheme in partnership with other partners, including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and Cabinet Office, as per this call.
The Innovation Fellowships scheme will provide funding and support for established early-career and mid-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to partner with organisations and business in the creative, cultural, public, private and policy sectors, to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. Through the Innovation Fellowships, our researchers in the SHAPE community will be supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, so enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skills development.
The Innovation Fellowships scheme has two routes: Route A: Researcher-led and Route B: Policy-led. This call is for Route B with the Academy, working with the FCDO and Cabinet Office.
Benefits of The British Academy - Innovation Fellowships Scheme
- The Academy is able to offer awards of up to £120,000 for 12 months in duration (with Full Economic Costing at 80 per cent).
The British Academy - Innovation Fellowships Scheme Requirements
- Eligible candidates have to be ordinarily resident within the United Kingdom with a present lengthy-time period appointment that can proceed for at the least so long as the interval of the award at a UK-based mostly establishment (e.g., a Higher Education Institution [HEI] or Independent Research Organisation [IRO]).
- They should additionally meet the necessities set out within the ‘Working at and with the FCDO’ part.
- Applications are welcome from early-profession researchers and mid-profession researchers. Note that purposes from unbiased researchers can’t be accepted on this spherical of the scheme.
- Applicants might not maintain a couple of British Academy award of a comparable nature at anyone time.
- Applicants for the Innovation Fellowships Scheme needs to be intending to pursue challenges that may profit from the contribution of Humanities or Social Sciences experience.
- Postgraduate college students are usually not eligible to apply for grant assist from the Academy, and Applicants are requested to affirm within the private particulars part(s) that they aren’t at present working in direction of a PhD, nor awaiting the result of a viva voce examination, nor awaiting the acceptance of any corrections required by the examiners.
Application Date and Process
Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy's Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®.
The deadline for submissions and UK institutional approval is 18 November 2026, 17:00 (GMT).
Application Deadline
18 November, 2026
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