British Academy APEX Awards 2026 (up to £200,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 9, 2025

Applications are open for the British Academy APEX Awards 2026. In partnership with the British Academy, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering and supported generously by the Leverhulme Trust, the APEX Awards (Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary analysis) provide established unbiased researchers, with a powerful monitor file of their respective space and confirmed capacity to lead collaborative work, an thrilling OPPORTUNITY to pursue real interdisciplinary and curiosity-pushed analysis to profit wider society. Successful candidates might be anticipated to work in collaboration with related researchers from different disciplines.

The targets of this scheme are to:

• promote collaboration throughout disciplines, with a selected emphasis on the boundary between science, engineering, and the social sciences and humanities
• assist excellent interdisciplinary analysis which is unlikely to be supported via typical funding programmes
• assist researchers with an impressive monitor file in creating their analysis in a brand new course via collaboration with companions from different disciplines
• allow excellent researchers to give attention to advancing their revolutionary analysis via seed funding

Subjects Covered

Applications should be inside the remit of greater than one of many Academies. Applications that span the remit of The British Academy and The Royal Academy of Engineering are inspired.

• The British Academy Remit – In any self-discipline inside the social sciences and humanities – in some instances, artistic {and professional} follow could play a big function in shaping the strategies and/or outcomes of analysis. In all proposals, whether or not follow-led or not, a transparent scholarly rationale is required for the selection of analysis strategies, processes and outputs.
• The Royal Academy of Engineering Remit – The Royal Academy of Engineering Remit – Applications are welcome from any engineering self-discipline. Engineering is outlined in its broadest sense, encompassing a variety of numerous fields, together with pc science and supplies.
• The Royal Society Remit – Natural sciences (together with agriculture, arithmetic, expertise, pc science, supplies, medical, environmental and engineering sciences, however excluding scientific drugs).

Benefits

• Support is up to £200,000 to fund workers prices for the lead applicant and the co-applicant, and related analysis prices representing not more than 25 per cent of the full award worth. These can embrace consumables, gear, and collaborative journey.

Eligibility

• Open to candidates of all nationalities. Applicants should be distinctive researchers with glorious monitor data as established unbiased researchers (this could embrace engineering researchers, humanities and social sciences students and scientists).
• Applicants might be anticipated to collaborate with a analysis accomplice (co-applicant) from a unique self-discipline to their very own, primarily based on the identical establishment or a unique college within the UK. All functions should be supported by the applicant’s Head of Department, who might be requested to present assurance that the researcher might be permitted to use the establishment’s services in the course of the interval of the award and could be launched/partially launched from instructing duties (if required).
• Applications should be inside the remit of greater than one of many Academies. For instance, functions that span the remit of The British Academy and The Royal Academy of Engineering are inspired however functions that are inside the remit of only one Academy won’t be permitted.
• Applicants could solely submit one application per spherical.

Application

Applications needs to be submitted via the Royal Society’s grant administration system, Flexi-Grant®, by 15:00 (BST) on Tuesday 9 September 2025.

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For extra info, go to APEX Awards.