The British Academy Funding Call: Global Innovation Fellowships
Dear Research Network, Colleagues and Friends,
Please see the enclosed funding call from the British Association for "Global Innovation Fellowships." This £337m fund may be of particular interest for those ethicists and religious scholars who also engage with technology or health themes.
The detailed funding call including the hyper links are listed below.
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Funding Call: Global Innovation Fellowships - C40
The British Academy is now inviting applications to the Global Innovation Fellowships C40. The programme is supported under the UK government’s International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF). The £337m fund is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of our international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time: planet, health, tech, and talent. The fund is managed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and delivered by a consortium of the UK’s leading research and innovation bodies.
The objective of the Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early- and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. Through the Global Innovation Fellowships, 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.
Aims
This is the first call for this Official Development Assistance (ODA) strand of the programme, offering opportunities for ODA Global Innovation Fellowship award-holders to embed themselves with C40, in their South Africa office. Applications that are not considered ODA-eligible will not be taken forward through the assessment process.
C40 is a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis. Mayors of C40 cities are committed to using an inclusive, science-based and collaborative approach to cut their fair share of emissions in half by 2030, help the world limit global heating to 1.5°C, and build healthy, equitable and resilient communities.
The Academy and C40 invite applications for Fellowships in any of the following areas:
Cities, Climate and Housing: Buildings are responsible for on average 60 per cent of emissions in cities – and in some cities up to 80 per cent. This means that the transition away from fossil fuels and into renewable energy and green buildings solutions must be an essential part of all climate action. Housing is a critical part of this mix with construction materials and the building sector responsible for almost a third of global resource consumption, and the need for housing intensifying across the world. A Fellowship in this area would be based with C40 Cities South Africa team whilst working with its network worldwide to focus on the intersection between housing and climate change from mitigation, adaptation and economic perspectives given that the housing sector is fundamental to cities’ economies.
Cities, Climate and Health: 99 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed safe pollution limits. Breathing dirty air leads to premature death and disease, disproportionately impacting marginalised and vulnerable communities. Air pollution is also intrinsically linked to climate breakdown. Many drivers of poor air quality are sources of greenhouse gas emissions, such as pollutants caused by the burning of fossil fuels. A Fellowship in this area would be based with C40 Cities South Africa team whilst working with its network worldwide to focus on the interlinkages between public health, the climate crisis and urban air quality, as well as the wider health benefits of delivering climate action in cities.
Cities and Green, and Just Transition: Ensuring the just transition to a decarbonised society whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity loss is key to ensuring progress towards more inclusive economies and a greener, healthier and more prosperous future. By investing in climate solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions cities can mitigate climate breakdown and deliver health benefits, creating jobs and tackling systemic inequality. A Fellowship in this area would be based with C40 Cities South Africa team whilst working with its network worldwide to focus on the interlocking and existential climate, sustainability and nature-based challenges of our time and how they both affect cities and how cities can be a driving ground for climate action.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants might have expertise from a range of disciplinary, conceptual and methodological perspectives, including analytical, policy and practical perspectives.
Eligible applicants must be ordinarily resident in the UK with a current long-term appointment that will continue for at least as long as the period of the award. You must be an early-career or mid-career researcher based at an institution in the UK (eg a Higher Education Institution [HEI] or Independent Research Organisation [IRO]), from disciplines within the humanities and social sciences that is listed as an approving-organisation in the British Academy’s Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®. This institution will be issued the terms and conditions of the award, if successful.
This is an opportunity for award-holders to form new collaborations and draw on the insights this brings to inform, influence and develop their future development. We seek open-mindedness, a willingness to explore new perspectives and to experiment with innovative approaches. You will have an appetite for working across academia, policy and practice, and will demonstrate a commitment to being genuinely challenge driven and dedicated to integrating the perspectives, needs and priorities of the partner organisation.
All applicants should strongly consider the potential for engagement between academic and non-academic environments and the value this would bring to their career and the value they can bring to the work and purpose of C40. Applicants must also meet the requirements set out in the ‘Working at and with the C40’ section of the scheme guidance notes.
Applicants may not hold more than one British Academy award of a comparable nature at any one time.
Value and duration
Global Innovation Fellowships will have a maximum award value of £150,000 on an 80 per cent Full Economic Costing (FEC) basis. The award is intended to be made on a full-time basis.
The cost of relocation, visas and any associated costs for the applicant and their dependants are eligible under this programme.
Application process
Expressions of Interest must be submitted online using the British Academy's GMS, Flexi-Grant®.
Expressions of Interest must be submitted by Wednesday 27 November 2024, 17:00 (GMT).
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