British Academy SHAPE Involve and Engage Program 2026 (up to £8,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2026

Applications are open for the British Academy SHAPE Involve and Engage Program 2026. This programme provides the OPPORTUNITY to assume outdoors the field, take a look at a brand new method and be formidable in your method to partaking a public viewers together with your analysis.

As part of the programme, a ‘community of practice’ workshop shall be hosted for profitable candidates in mid to late January. Alongside periods on analysis and working together with your audiences, award holders may have the chance to share their plans with different workshop attendees. You will act as crucial associates and sounding boards, sharing concepts, giving suggestions and troubleshooting doable challenges, and forming a community of assist by the period of the undertaking improvement and supply.

The programme will:

• Act as a catalyst to get a undertaking or thought up and operating.
• Be a chance to strive a brand new method or work with a brand new viewers to acquire new views in your analysis.
• Offer the possibility to construct a brand new partnership with the cultural sector or strive a brand new thought with an current collaborator. The probability to work with a accomplice who really provides worth and makes a significant contribution to your undertaking by their experience, connections, abilities or collections.
• Allow you to make contacts and discover networking alternatives with others within the analysis neighborhood who’re focused on exploring new and modern approaches to public engagement.

Award

• The award is up to £8,000.

Eligibility

• They are looking for artistic lecturers who need to experiment with their engagement work and discover new methods to share their analysis with a public viewers.
• The name is open to any researcher primarily based within the UK who meets the circumstances of the decision. You should not have to have obtained funding from the British Academy beforehand.
• Successful award recipients are anticipated to have some prior public engagement expertise, however we welcome candidates from a various vary of backgrounds, experiences, experience and profession phases.

Application

The application deadline is October 15, 2025. The period of this system is between April 1, 2026 and December 31, 2027.

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For extra info, go to SHAPE Involve and Engage.