APEX Awards 2027 for Researchers (up to £200,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 8, 2026

Applications are open for the British Academy APEX Awards 2027. In partnership with the British Academy, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering (“the Academies”) 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 robust observe report of their respective space and confirmed potential to lead collaborative work, an thrilling OPPORTUNITY to pursue real interdisciplinary and blue skies, curiosity-pushed analysis to profit wider society. Successful candidates can be anticipated to work in collaboration with related researchers from different disciplines.

The aims of this scheme are to:

• promote collaboration throughout disciplines, with a specific emphasis on the boundary between science, engineering, and the social sciences and humanities
• assist excellent interdisciplinary analysis which is unlikely to be supported by means of typical funding programmes
• assist researchers with an impressive observe report in growing their analysis in a brand new route by means of collaboration with companions from different disciplines
• allow excellent researchers to give attention to advancing their progressive analysis by means of seed funding

Benefits

• Applicants can apply for up to £200,000. This represents the utmost award worth which can be utilized to cowl employees prices for the Lead applicant and the Co-applicant(s), analysis prices and public engagement prices.

Eligibility

The Lead applicant should

• be an distinctive, unbiased researcher with a robust observe report and confirmed potential to lead collaborative work
• maintain a everlasting or mounted-time period place masking the length of the award
• have each educating and admin duties from which they are often relieved from. Applicants that wouldn’t have educating and administrative duties will not be eligible to apply
• be primarily based in a UK University or a UK not-for-profit analysis organisation

Lead candidates might embrace up to two Co-applicants. When selecting the Co-applicant(s), the Lead applicant should make sure that the proposed collaboration demonstrates real integration throughout disciplines, comparable to science, engineering and the social sciences and humanities — combining strategies, ideas, or views from totally different Academy remits.

The Co-applicant should

• be an distinctive, unbiased researcher with complementary experience to the Lead applicant and masking a special Academy remit. For tasks with two Co-applicants, the topic space of at the very least one Co-applicant should fall below a special Academy remit from that of the Lead applicant. This requirement ensures that the proposed analysis maintains its interdisciplinary and cross Academy nature
• maintain a everlasting or mounted-time period place masking the length of the award
• be primarily based in a UK University or a UK not-for-profit analysis organisation

Lead and Co-applicants can solely submit one application per spherical. Previous award holders might re-apply however any further application must be a brand new challenge and never a observe on from the earlier award.

Application

Applications must be submitted by means of the Royal Society’s grant administration system, Flexi-Grant, by 15:00 (BST) on Tuesday 8 September 2026.

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For extra info, go to APEX Awards.