British Academy Talent Development Awards 2025-2026 (up to £10,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 8, 2025

Applications are open for the British Academy Talent Development Awards 2025-2026. The purpose of the scheme is to allow researchers to construct their abilities and capacities in core areas to develop their present and future analysis. This contains core areas like quantitative abilities, information science, digital humanities and languages. This scheme promotes the acquisition and development of abilities in related areas, supporting progressive analysis strategies, be that by means of abilities growth, collaboration or dissemination.

It can also be designed for researchers who want to undertake an interdisciplinary strategy to their work and search to advance their abilities in a brand new space that will fall outdoors the standard bounds of their topic self-discipline. It offers Early Career Researchers with the OPPORTUNITY to develop specialist abilities to help the foundations of their profession. Additionally, the scheme affords mid and senior-profession researchers the possibility to diversify their abilities and methodological approaches in response to new avenues of analysis curiosity. The scheme encourages researchers to champion their newly acquired abilities inside their wider group, contributing to the continued growth of abilities for future generations.

The overarching goals of the scheme are to put money into UK expertise and abilities, and consequently, to contribute to the event and supply of top quality regional, nationwide and worldwide analysis by:

• elevating the standard of superior quantitative abilities and/or information science abilities utilized in analysis, together with digital strategies;
• creating new alternatives for information and abilities to change throughout disciplines and sectors; and
• selling language studying and the transferable abilities that language studying offers.

Benefits

• The most grant is £10,000. Awards are to allow engagement actions to happen and usually are not supposed as time purchase-out for the award-holder. This scheme just isn’t supplied on a Full Economic Costing (FEC) foundation, and 100 per cent of the awarded funds should be used solely for the needs outlined within the application and agreed within the award letter.

Eligibility

• Eligible Lead Applicants should be ordinarily resident within the United Kingdom with a present lengthy-time period appointment at a UK-based mostly Higher Education Institution (HEI) or Independent Research Organisation (IRO), which can proceed for the total length of the proposed award. Applicants for the Talent Development Awards needs to be intending to pursue unique, unbiased analysis in any area of study inside the humanities or social sciences. There aren’t any quotas for particular person topic areas and no thematic priorities inside the scheme.
• Lead Applicants who wouldn’t have a doctorate could have equal expertise, which they need to outline within the private assertion part. Co-applicants could also be based mostly within the UK or abroad. They could have a doctorate or equal expertise, or different specialist information as applicable to the goals of the scheme.

Application

The application deadline is October 8, 2025 at 17:00 BST. The award length is for a minimal interval of six months and up to a most interval of 12 months.

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For extra info, go to British Academy Talent Development Awards.